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1. apple, n. View full entry eOE
...The round firm fruit (a pome) of any of various wild and cultivated trees of the genus Malus (see sense 4a), occurring in a wide variety of forms,...
2. big, adj. and adv. View full entry c1300
...Of a person or animal: strong, sturdy, mighty; stout-hearted, courageous. Cf. rich1. Obs....
3. dog, n.1 View full entry OE
...A domesticated carnivorous mammal, Canis familiaris (or C. lupus familiaris), which typically has a long snout, an acute sense of smell, non-retractile claws, and a barking, howling, or...
4. Eureka, int. (and n.) View full entry 1603
...The exclamation (‘I have found it’) uttered by Archimedes when he discovered the means of determining (by specific gravity) the proportion of base metal in Hiero's golden crown. (See Vitruvius Arch....
5. gooseberry, n. View full entry 1530
...The edible berry or fruit of any of the thorny species of the genus Ribes, the best known and most commonly cultivated of which is R. Grossularia; also...
6. hand, n.1 View full entry c825
...The terminal part of the arm beyond the wrist, consisting of the palm and five digits, forming the organ of prehension characteristic of man. The name is also given to the similar...
7. home, adv. View full entry eOE
...To or towards one's home, house, or abode; to the place, region, or country where one lives....
8. Jack, n.1 View full entry 1362
...(As proper noun.) A familiar by-form of the name John; hence, a generic proper name for any representative of the common people....
9. kitchen, n. View full entry c1000
...That room or part of a house in which food is cooked; a place fitted with the apparatus for cooking. Clerk of the Kitchen: see clerk6a....
10. lane, n.1 View full entry 971
...A narrow way between hedges or banks; a narrow road or street between houses or walls; a bye-way. blind lane, turn-again lane: a cul-de-sac (see also quot. ...
11. lick, v. View full entry a1000
...trans....
12. line, n.2 View full entry OE
...A rope, cord, string; †a leash for dogs or for hawks. Chiefly Naut. or as short for clothes-line, etc. Also applied with words prefixed to particular ‘makes’ of...
13. little, adj., n., and adv. View full entry c893
...Of material objects, portions of space, etc.: Small in size, not large or big. Of persons: Short in stature....
14. lotus, n. View full entry 1541
...The plant yielding the fruit which was the food of the Lotophagi of Greek legend; represented by Homer (Od.ix. 90 ff.) as producing in those who ate...
15. mark, n.1 View full entry eOE
...A boundary, frontier, or limit. Also: land within or near certain boundaries (cf. march). Obs....
16. mat, n.1 View full entry eOE
...A piece of a coarse material, usually woven or plaited, used for lying, sitting, or kneeling on, or as a protective covering for floors, walls, etc. Later also: a small rug of...
17. myrtle, n. View full entry a1400
...The edible fruit of a myrtle (see sense 2a); a myrtle berry. Obs....
18. neck, n.1 View full entry eOE
...Originally: the back portion of the part of the body between the head and the shoulders; the nape. Later: the whole of this part of the body; the part connecting the head...
19. nose, n. View full entry eOE
...That part (usually more or less prominent) of the head or face in humans and other mammals which lies above the mouth and contains the nostrils, and functions as the organ of...
20. oak, n. and adj. View full entry eOE
...Either of two major British and European deciduous forest trees of the genus Quercus (family Fagaceae), Q. robur (also called common oak, English...
