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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. acid, adj. and n. View full entry 1626
...In general use: sour, tart, sharp to the taste; tasting like vinegar....
3. action, n. View full entry a1393
...Something done or performed, a deed, an act; (in pl.) habitual or ordinary deeds, conduct....
4. aeroplane, n. View full entry 1866
...A flattened structure, originally plane but later aerodynamically curved, that forms the principal lifting surface of an aircraft; esp. a wing. Cf. aerofoil1plane5. Now ...
5. alpha, n. and adj. View full entry ?c1200
...(The name of) the first letter (Α, α) of the Greek alphabet, corresponding to English a....
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. 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...
8. 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...
9. 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....
10. 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...
11. gamma, n. and adj. View full entry ?a1425
...The third letter of the Greek alphabet, Γ, γ, corresponding to English g....
12. gas, n.1 and adj. View full entry 1662
...J. B. van Helmont's name for: water supposedly charged with a vital principle and thought to be contained in all bodies and released upon combustion in the form of extremely rarefied water...
13. green, adj. and n.1 View full entry eOE
...Of a colour intermediate between blue and yellow in the spectrum; of the colour of grass, foliage, an emerald, etc....
14. ice, n. View full entry eOE
...Frozen water; water made solid by cooling to a low temperature, either naturally (by weather or climate) or artificially (as by refrigeration)....
15. jet, n.3 View full entry a1500
...A projection, a protruding part; = jetty1. Obs....
16. liver, n.1 and adj.2 View full entry eOE
...In vertebrate animals: a large glandular organ of the digestive system, located in the upper or anterior abdomen, which serves to secrete bile, to process and store nutrients absorbed from the intestines,...
17. mother, n.1 (and int.) View full entry eOE
...The female parent of a human being; a woman in relation to a child or children to whom she has given birth; (also, in extended use) a woman who undertakes the responsibilities...
18. mound, n.2 View full entry ?a1500
...A hedge, a fence, esp. as forming a boundary to a field or garden. Now rare (Eng. regional, south. and south-west midl.)....
19. multiple, n. and adj. View full entry a1595
...Sc. A multitude, a great number; = multiplieObs.rare....
20. mutton, n. View full entry c1300
...The flesh of sheep, used as food....
