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1. ace, n.1 and adj. (and int.) View full entry ?a1300
...A single point in a game, and related uses....
2. age, n. View full entry c1275
...A naturally distinct section of a person's or animal's existence; a particular period or stage of life. Often with defining word or phrase specifying the stage....
3. air, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...An atmosphere contaminated by noxious fumes, vapours, etc.; such contaminating fumes themselves; miasma. Now only (with qualifying adjective) merged in sense 2a....
4. alderman, n. View full entry 1275
...The senior judicial person in an English hundred. Cf. High Constableconstable5b. Now hist....
5. all over, adv. and prep. View full entry ?c1225
...In every respect; throughout; fully, totally. Now colloq....
6. alone, adj., adv., and n. View full entry ?c1200
...Being on one's own, by oneself; having no other present; unaccompanied. Also in extended use, of things, animals, etc....
7. alpha, n. and adj. View full entry ?c1200
...(The name of) the first letter (Α, α) of the Greek alphabet, corresponding to English a....
8. already, adj. and adv. View full entry c1275
...As predicate or complement. Fully prepared or ready. Obs....
9. another, adj. and pron. (and adv.) View full entry c1225
...One more, one further; originally a second of two things; subsequently extended to anything additional or remaining beyond those already considered; an additional....
10. article, n. View full entry ?c1225
...Each of the separate items of a summary of faith; spec.each of the separate clauses or statements of the Apostles' Creed; (freq. with capital initial) any of the...
11. aunt, n. View full entry 1297
...The sister of one's father or mother. Also, an uncle's wife, more strictly called an aunt-in-law....
12. awfully, adv. View full entry a1300
...So as to cause terror; terribly, dreadfully....
13. babbling, adj. View full entry a1250
...That talks rapidly and continuously in a foolish, excited, or incomprehensible way; chattering, prating, tattling; (also) full of or characterized by babble....
14. bachelor, n. View full entry 1297
...A young knight, not old enough, or having too few vassals, to display his own banner, and who therefore followed the banner of another; a novice in arms. [On this sense was...
15. back-, comb. form View full entry ?c1225
...General senses in combination....
16. bad, adj., n.2, and adv. View full entry 1203
...Of poor quality or little worth....
17. bag, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A receptacle made of some flexible material closed in on all sides except at the top (where also it generally can be closed); a pouch, a small sack....
18. balance, n.1 View full entry 1297
...An apparatus for weighing, consisting of a beam poised so as to move freely on a central pivot, with a scale pan at each end....
19. bald, adj. View full entry 1297
...? Rotund, of full habit, corpulent. Obs....
20. bark, n.1 View full entry a1300
...The rind or outer sheath of the trunk and branches of trees, formed of tissue parallel with the wood. See quot. 1866....
