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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. ace, n.1 and adj. (and int.) View full entry ?a1300
...A single point in a game, and related uses....
3. active, adj. and n. View full entry 1340
...Of a way or style of life: characterized by outward action rather than inward contemplation or speculation; practical. Esp. in active life, and chiefly in religious contexts. Opposed to ...
4. African, n. and adj. View full entry eOE
...A native or inhabitant of Africa; a person of African origin (contextually = black African(a)black5a); spec. (in local usage) such a person as distinguished from...
5. 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....
6. alder, n.1 View full entry eOE
...A European tree, Alnus glutinosa (family Betulaceae), common on riverbanks and damp woodland across the northern hemisphere, having rounded toothed leaves and bearing male catkins and woody female...
7. beer, n.1 View full entry c1000
...An alcoholic liquor obtained by the fermentation of malt (or other saccharine substance), flavoured with hops or other aromatic bitters. Formerly distinguished from ale by being hopped; but now the...
8. black, adj. and n. View full entry eOE
...Designating the darkest colour possible, that of soot, coal, the sky on a moonless night in open country, and a small hole in a hollow object; of or having this colour; (also)...
9. blackhead, n.2 and adj. View full entry 1658
...Any of various black-headed birds, esp. the black-headed gull, Larus ridibundus; (S. Afr.) the black-headed canary, Serinus alario (family Fringillidae), the male...
10. black jack, n.2 View full entry c1540
...A large, tar-coated leather jug for beer. Cf. black bowlblack5a. Now hist....
11. blue, adj. and n. View full entry c1300
...Of a colour of the spectrum intermediate between green and violet, as of the sky or deep sea on a clear day....
12. blue jay, n. View full entry 1709
...A common North American bird of the crow family, Cyanositta cristata, which has a blue crest, bluish upperparts, and white underparts....
13. book, n. View full entry 872-915
...A writing; a written document; esp. a charter or deed by which land (hence called bócland) was conveyed. Obs....
14. bush, n.1 View full entry c1315
...A shrub, particularly one with close branches arising from or near the ground; a small clump of shrubs apparently forming one plant....
15. camel, n. View full entry c950
...A large hornless ruminant quadruped, distinguished by its humped back, long neck, and cushioned feet; it is nowhere found wild, but is domesticated in Western Asia and Northern Africa, in the arid...
16. come, v. View full entry c825
...In its most literal sense it expresses the hitherward motion of a voluntary agent....
17. cracker, n. View full entry 1509
...gen....
18. dolly, n.1 View full entry 1612
...A familiar pet-form of the name Dorothy (= doll1)....
19. drift, n. View full entry a1300
...The act of driving; propulsion, impulse, impetus. (Now rare or Obs. exc. as in 1b, or 2a.)...
20. dropper, n. View full entry 1699
...One who drops or lets fall in drops; in quot. 1699 = distiller (slang)....
