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1. acceptance, n. View full entry 1528-30
...Law. An agreement to abide by the act or contract of another, such as a predecessor in an office, by some act which amounts to a recognition or approval of it,...
2. altar, n. View full entry eOE
...A block, table, stand, or other raised structure with a flat top used as the focus for a religious ritual, especially for making sacrifices or offerings to a god or gods....
3. basket, n. View full entry a1300
...A vessel of wickerwork, made of plaited osiers, cane, rushes, bast, or other materials....
4. bauble, n. View full entry c1320
...An instrument consisting of a stick with a mass of lead fixed or suspended at one end, used for weighing, and apparently for other purposes. Forms: babyll(e, babulle,...
5. beard, n. View full entry c825
...The hair that grows upon the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of an adult man's face; now usually excluding the moustache, or hair of the upper lip....
6. before, adv., prep., conj., adj., and n. View full entry OE
...Of motion: Ahead, in advance, in front....
7. big, adj. and adv. View full entry c1300
...Of a person or animal: strong, sturdy, mighty; stout-hearted, courageous. Cf. rich1. Obs....
8. brass, n. View full entry c1000
...Historically: The general name for all alloys of copper with tin or zinc (and occasionally other base metals). To distinguish alloys of copper and tin, the name bronze has...
9. bread, n. View full entry c950
...(Only in Old English) Bit, piece, morsel (of food). See above in Etymology....
10. bus, n.1 View full entry 1832
...A large public vehicle carrying passengers by road, running on a fixed route and typically requiring the payment of a fare; = omnibus1. Also: this as a form of...
11. Charon, n. View full entry a1522
...In Greek and Latin mythology the name of the ferryman who conveyed the shades of the departed across the Styx; often used allusively....
12. conscript, adj. and n. View full entry a1533
...Enrolled or elected a senator. In pl. conscript fathers, fathers conscriptLatinpatres conscripti, properly patres, conscripti, i.e. patres et conscripti fathers: a collective title...
13. 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...
14. drawing-room, n.1 View full entry 1642
...orig. A room to withdraw to, a private chamber attached to a more public room (see withdrawing-room); now, a room reserved for the reception of company, and to which...
15. dump, n.2 View full entry 1770-90
...A term familiarly applied to various objects of ‘dumpy’ shape....
16. Dunkirk, n. View full entry 1602
...ˈdʌnkɜːk Name of a town on the coast of French Flanders; hence, a privateer vessel of that town. Also transf. and fig....
17. ferry, n.1 View full entry c1425
...A passage or crossing. Obs....
18. floor, n.1 View full entry c888
...The layer of boards, brick, stone, etc. in an apartment, on which people tread; the under surface of the interior of a room. Phr. to mop or wipe the: see...
19. four, adj. and n. View full entry OE
...In concord with n. expressed....
20. gull, n.1 View full entry c1430
...Any long-winged, web-footed bird of the family Laridæ and sub-family Larinæ, which contains several genera, Larus being the largest. In popular use the name is of...
