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1. badge, n. View full entry 1440
...Originally: a heraldic symbol worn as an identifying mark by a knight and his retainers (= cognizance5a; sometimes more fully badge of arms). In later use: any...
2. base, n.1 View full entry ?a1325
...Part of a structure....
3. 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)...
4. 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....
5. brick, n.1 View full entry c1440
...A substance formed of clay, kneaded, moulded, and hardened by baking with fire, or in warm countries and ancient times by drying in the sun; used instead of stone as a building...
6. Celtic, adj. and n. View full entry 1656
...Hist. and Archaeol. Of or belonging to the ancient Celtæ and their presumed congeners....
7. colour | color, n.1 View full entry c1300
...Any of the constituents into which light can be separated as in a spectrum or rainbow, and which are referred to by names such as blue, red, ...
8. field, n.1 View full entry eOE
...Open country, esp. as opposed to woodland; a stretch of open land; a plain....
9. formality, n. View full entry 1531
...Formal or essential nature; the characteristic or distinctive property by which a thing is defined. Also, the condition of possessing formal existence....
10. gentleman, n. View full entry a1275
...A man of gentle birth, or having the same heraldic status as those of gentle birth; properly, one who is entitled to bear arms, though not ranking among the nobility (see quot....
11. give, v. View full entry a855
...To hand over (a thing) as a present; to confer gratuitously the ownership of (some possession) on another person (with or without actual delivery of the object)....
12. 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....
13. half-, comb. form View full entry c893
...With adjectives and pa. pples. Already in Old English: see above. Very common in later use, esp. with pa. pples., to which half- may be prefixed whenever the sense suits:...
14. Irish, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry OE
...Of a person: native to Ireland; that is a citizen of Ireland; (also) descended from emigrants from Ireland to another country, esp. the United States or Australia (cf. Irish-American, ...
15. lily, n. and adj. View full entry 971
...Any plant (or its flower) of the genus Lilium (family Liliaceæ) of bulbous herbs bearing at the top of a tall slender stem large showy flowers of white,...
16. lizard, n. View full entry 1377
...A name popularly applied to reptiles of the genus Lacerta, and to other reptiles resembling these in shape and general appearance, having an elongated body, a long tail, four legs,...
17. man, n.1 (and int.) View full entry eOE
...A human being....
18. merchant, n. and adj. View full entry c1225
...A person whose occupation is the purchase and sale of goods or commodities for profit. (Originally used gen. of any trader in goods not manufactured or produced by his or...
19. mill, n.1 View full entry eOE
...A building designed and fitted with machinery for the grinding of corn into flour (traditionally one worked by wind or water power)....
20. mongrel, n. and adj. View full entry c1460
...A dog having parents of different breeds (in quot. 1460 a heraldic representation of such a dog); a dog of no definable breed resulting from various crossings. Also: †the offspring...
