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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. acid, adj. and n. View full entry 1626
...In general use: sour, tart, sharp to the taste; tasting like vinegar....
3. addition, n. View full entry c1400
...Something which is added or joined to another thing; an appendix, an augmentation; (also) a person who becomes part of a family or other group of people....
4. admiralty, n. View full entry 1419
...The branch of justice concerned with maritime questions and offences. Also: legal matters relating to this. Freq. in court of admiralty...
5. adventure, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A chance occurrence or event, an accident. Obs....
6. after-, prefix View full entry eOE
...Combinations in which after- is adjectival or adverbial, and indicates that the second element refers to something that comes behind or afterwards, or an action that is performed later....
7. aggregate, adj. and n. View full entry c1400
...Constituted by the collection of many particles or units into one body, mass, or amount; collective, whole, total....
8. agony, n. View full entry c1384
...Christian Church. In sing. and pl. The mental struggle or anguish of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26: 36–46)....
9. Airey, n. View full entry 1945
...attrib. Designating a system for constructing houses from precast concrete sections. Of a house: built using this system....
10. aisle, n. View full entry 1398
...In a church: an area extending parallel to, and typically divided by pillars from, the main body of the church; (usually) each of a pair of such areas north and south of...
11. all, adj., pron., and n., adv., and conj. View full entry eOE
...With singular noun. The whole amount, quantity, extent, or compass of; the whole of....
12. alpha, n. and adj. View full entry ?c1200
...(The name of) the first letter (Α, α) of the Greek alphabet, corresponding to English a....
13. † aluring, n. View full entry 1412
...regional (north.Eng.). A parapet; a railing....
14. armoured | armored, adj. View full entry 1601
...Clad in armour; also transf....
15. as, adv. and conj. View full entry OE
...Of quantity or degree: in that degree, to that extent (in or to which). Obs....
16. assize, n. View full entry 1297
...A sitting or session of a consultative or legislative body. Obs....
17. aumbry, n. View full entry a1225
...A container for storing books, a bookcase; (occas.) a room where books or other documents are stored, a library, an archive. Formerly also: †a repository or compendium of knowledge, such as a...
18. B, n. View full entry c1000
...The second letter of the Roman alphabet, ancient and modern, corresponding, in position and power, to the Greek Beta, and Phœnician and Hebrew Beth, whence also its form...
19. baby, n. and adj. View full entry c1400
...A very young child, esp. one not yet able to walk and dependent on the care of others; an infant. Also applied to an unborn child. Formerly also: †a child...
20. back, n.1 View full entry c885
...properly. The convex surface of the body of persons and vertebrated animals which is adjacent to the spinal axis, and opposite to the belly and most of the special organs. It...
