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1. accidentally, adv. View full entry a1398
...Non-essentially, incidentally; as a secondary or subsidiary effect....
2. animal, n. View full entry a1398
...A living organism which feeds on organic matter, typically having specialized sense organs and a nervous system and able to respond rapidly to stimuli; any living creature, including man....
3. black man, n. View full entry a1398
...A dark-skinned man, esp. a man of sub-Saharan African or Australian Aboriginal origin or descent. Also: †a dark-haired or swarthy man (obs.). Cf. black3a....
4. bud, n.1 View full entry 1398
...Bot. A little projection found at the axil of a leaf, composed of scales, which are small leaves, and forming the rudiment of a branch, cluster of leaves, or blossom. Hence,...
5. bull, v.1 View full entry 1398
...trans. Said of a bull: To gender with (the cow)....
6. bum, n.1 View full entry a1387
...‘The buttocks, the part on which we sit’ (Johnson); the posteriors....
7. buzz, v.1 View full entry 1398
...intr. To make the humming sibilant sound characteristic of bees and other insects; to fly out, in, etc. with such a sound....
8. carrier, n. View full entry 1398
...A person who or thing that carries, in various senses of carry; a bearer....
9. cheesy, adj. View full entry 1398
...Of or belonging to cheese; consisting of, or of the nature of, cheese; abounding in cheese....
10. civil, adj., n., and adv. View full entry a1387
...Of warfare, conflict, etc.: occurring within a society or community; taking place between inhabitants of the same country or state, or between the populace and the ruling power; of or relating to...
11. clod, n. View full entry 1398
...A mass formed by the coagulation of anything liquid, esp. blood. Obs. (now clot)...
12. close, adj. and adv. View full entry a1387
...gen. Closed, shut; having no part left open. Often as complement of predicate, as in to shut close. (Cf. B. 1.)...
13. comb, v.1 View full entry 1398
...trans. To draw a comb through the hair for the purpose of cleaning, disentangling, or arranging; to dress with a comb; to curry a horse....
14. compile, v. View full entry a1387
...trans. To collect and put together (materials), so as to form a treatise; to collect into a volume....
15. coriander, n. View full entry 1398
...An annual plant, Coriandrum sativum, family Umbelliferæ, with compound leaves and globose fruit; a native of Southern Europe, the Levant, etc., naturalized in some parts of England. The...
16. corner, v. View full entry a1387
...trans. To furnish with corners, give corners to. (Chiefly in pa. pple.)...
17. count, v. View full entry a1387
...To tell over one by one, to assign to (individual objects in a collection) the numerals one, two, three, etc. so as to ascertain their number; to number, enumerate; to reckon, reckon...
18. crack, n. View full entry a1387
...A sudden sharp and loud noise as of something breaking or bursting; e.g. the crack of a rifle, a whip, of breaking ice, bones, etc. Formerly applied also to the...
19. damson, n. View full entry 1398
...A small plum, black or dark purple, the fruit of Prunus communis or domestica, variety damascena, which was introduced in very early times into Greece and...
20. demon, n.1 View full entry 1387
...In ancient Greek mythology (= δαίμων): A supernatural being of a nature intermediate between that of gods and men; an inferior divinity, spirit, genius (including the souls or ghosts of...
