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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. action, n. View full entry a1393
...Something done or performed, a deed, an act; (in pl.) habitual or ordinary deeds, conduct....
3. aerial, adj. View full entry ?1545
...Dwelling, flying, or moving in the air, above the earth; occurring or taking place in the air; (spec. of birds or bats) spending much of the time airborne....
4. aero-, comb. form View full entry 1865
...With reference to air or the air....
5. alley, n.1 View full entry 1360-1
...A passage between buildings; a narrow street or lane, esp. one wide enough only for pedestrians; a back lane....
6. altogether, adj., n., and adv. View full entry eOE
...Modifying the object or complement of a clause, indicating that the whole of what it refers to is involved: all of (something); constituting or representing the entirety of (a place, group, etc.);...
7. artificial, adj. and n. View full entry a1398
...Of a thing: made or constructed by human skill, esp. in imitation of, or as a substitute for, something which is made or occurs naturally; man-made....
8. autodrome, n. View full entry 1901
...A track or circuit for motor racing....
9. automatic, adj. and n. View full entry 1599
...Of action, etc.: self-generated, spontaneous; (of a thing) self-acting; having the power of motion within itself. In later use (Physiol.): having intrinsic activity that is not dependent upon external stimuli...
10. 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...
11. blood, n. (and int.) View full entry eOE
...The red fluid flowing in the arteries, capillaries, and veins of humans and other vertebrates, carrying oxygen and nutrients to, and carbon dioxide and waste metabolites away from, the organs and tissues...
12. blood, v. View full entry 1522
...trans. To smear, wet, or cover with blood; to cause to be bloodstained. Also fig.: to make (something) blood-coloured....
13. 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....
14. brain, n. View full entry eOE
...The organ contained in the skull of humans and other vertebrates, consisting of soft grey or white tissue with (esp. in mammals) a conspicuously convoluted surface. Also (as a mass noun): the...
15. British, adj. and n. View full entry eOE
...Of or relating to the Brittonic-speaking peoples originally inhabiting all of Britain south of the Firth of Forth before and during the Roman occupation....
16. bronze, n. View full entry a1721
...A brown-coloured alloy of copper and tin, sometimes also containing a little zinc and lead. Formerly included under the term brass, q.v.; the name bronze was introduced for...
17. 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...
18. earth, n.1 View full entry eOE
...The ground considered simply as a surface on which human beings, animals, and things associated with them rest or move....
19. electric, adj. and n. View full entry a1626
...Of a (non-conducting) substance or object: possessing the property (first observed in amber) of developing static electricity when rubbed. Now hist....
20. electro-, comb. form View full entry 1810
...Used, chiefly in scientific and technical contexts, with the senses ‘carried out by electrical means’, ‘involving or utilizing electricity’, ‘relating to electrons or their electric charge’....
