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1. apple, n. View full entry eOE
...The round firm fruit (a pome) of any of various wild and cultivated trees of the genus Malus (see sense 4a), occurring in a wide variety of forms,...
2. big, adj. and adv. View full entry c1300
...Of a person or animal: strong, sturdy, mighty; stout-hearted, courageous. Cf. rich1. Obs....
3. bus, n.1 View full entry 1832
...A large public vehicle carrying passengers by road, running on a fixed route and typically requiring the payment of a fare; = omnibus1. Also: this as a form of...
4. cake, n. View full entry c1230
...As name of an object, with plural: A baked mass of bread or substance of similar kind, distinguished from a loaf or other ordinary bread, either by its form or by its...
5. champagne, n. View full entry 1664
...The name of a province of eastern France; hence, a well-known wine of different varieties, white and red, and still or sparkling, made in this district....
6. cricket, n.1 View full entry a1325
...Any of various insects related to grasshoppers (order Orthoptera); spec. those of the family Gryllidae, which have relatively short hindlegs and the males of which produce...
7. custard, n. View full entry c1450
...Formerly, a kind of open pie containing pieces of meat or fruit covered with a preparation of broth or milk, thickened with eggs, sweetened, and seasoned with spices, etc. = crustade...
8. die, n.1 View full entry c1330
...A small cube of ivory, bone, or other material, having its faces marked with spots numbering from one to six, used in games of chance by being thrown from a box or...
9. 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...
10. ferry, n.1 View full entry c1425
...A passage or crossing. Obs....
11. floor, n.1 View full entry c888
...The layer of boards, brick, stone, etc. in an apartment, on which people tread; the under surface of the interior of a room. Phr. to mop or wipe the: see...
12. four, adj. and n. View full entry OE
...In concord with n. expressed....
13. hand, n.1 View full entry c825
...The terminal part of the arm beyond the wrist, consisting of the palm and five digits, forming the organ of prehension characteristic of man. The name is also given to the similar...
14. home, adv. View full entry eOE
...To or towards one's home, house, or abode; to the place, region, or country where one lives....
15. Jack, n.1 View full entry 1362
...(As proper noun.) A familiar by-form of the name John; hence, a generic proper name for any representative of the common people....
16. joined-up, adj. View full entry 1983
...Connected, conjoined. Of writing: cursive (as learnt in elementary school as a stage beyond printing individual letters separately), esp. in joined-up writing, joined-up handwriting; freq. used allusively...
17. kitchen, n. View full entry c1000
...That room or part of a house in which food is cooked; a place fitted with the apparatus for cooking. Clerk of the Kitchen: see clerk6a....
18. lane, n.1 View full entry 971
...A narrow way between hedges or banks; a narrow road or street between houses or walls; a bye-way. blind lane, turn-again lane: a cul-de-sac (see also quot. ...
19. leek, n. View full entry eOE
...A culinary herb, Allium Porrum (family Liliaceæ), allied to the onion, but differing from it in having the bulbous part cylindrical and the leaves flat and broad....
20. lick, v. View full entry a1000
...trans....
