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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. absentee, n. and adj. View full entry 1537
...A landowner who resides abroad or at a distance from his or her estate; (formerly also) a clergyman who is habitually absent from his parish. Also more generally: a person who is...
3. absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry c1400
...Grammar....
4. 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....
5. axe | ax, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A tool or instrument for hewing, cleaving, or chopping, trees, wood, ice, etc.; consisting of a squarish head, now usually of iron with a steel edge or blade, fixed by means of...
6. base, n.1 View full entry ?a1325
...Part of a structure....
7. bed, n. View full entry c995
...A permanent structure or arrangement for sleeping on, or for the sake of rest. In some form or other it constitutes a regular article of household furniture in civilized life, as well...
8. big, adj. and adv. View full entry c1300
...Of a person or animal: strong, sturdy, mighty; stout-hearted, courageous. Cf. rich1. Obs....
9. 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)...
10. block, n. View full entry c1305
...A log of wood; part of the trunk of a tree, a stump....
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. 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....
13. board, n. View full entry c897
...A piece of timber sawn thin, and having considerable extent of surface; usually a rectangular piece of much greater length than breadth; a thin plank. Rarely used without the article, as in...
14. ˈbolter, n.2 View full entry 1699
...One that bolts or runs; esp. a horse that bolts....
15. borough, n. View full entry c820
...A fortress, castle, or citadel. Obs. (Unequivocal instances of this sense are rare, even in Old English In quot. 1394 the word denotes simply a large building; and...
16. boss, n.6 View full entry 1806
...An orig. American equivalent of ‘master’ in the sense of employer of labour; applied also to a business manager, or any one who has a right to give orders. In England at...
17. boundary, n. View full entry 1626
...That which serves to indicate the bounds or limits of anything whether material or immaterial; also the limit itself....
18. break, v. View full entry 851
...trans. generally....
19. brown, adj. View full entry a1000
...Dusky, dark. (Now only poetic, and regarded as transf. from sense 2.)...
20. bung, n.1 View full entry c1440
...A stopper; spec. a large cork stopper for the ‘mouth’ of a cask, i.e. the hole in the bulge by which it is filled....
