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1. 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)...
2. break, v. View full entry 851
...trans. generally....
3. child, n. View full entry c950
...The unborn or newly born human being; fœtus, infant. App. originally always used in relation to the mother as the ‘fruit of the womb’....
4. comparative, adj. and n. View full entry 1447
...Of or pertaining to comparison; that compares or involves comparison....
5. conjugation, n. View full entry a1528
...The action of joining together or uniting; the condition of being joined together; conjunction, union, combination....
6. consonant, n. View full entry c1308
...An alphabetic or phonetic element other than a vowel; an elementary sound of speech which in the formation of a syllable is combined with a vowel. Applied both to the sounds and...
7. copulative, adj. and n. View full entry a1450
...Serving to couple or connect; spec. in Grammar applied to conjunctions which connect (constructionally) words or clauses which are also connected in sense; opposed to adversative...
8. dark, adj. View full entry OE
...Characterized by (absolute or relative) absence of light; devoid of or deficient in light; unilluminated; said esp. of night....
9. dental, adj. and n. View full entry 1594
...Of or pertaining to the teeth; of the nature of a tooth....
10. emphatic, adj. and n. View full entry 1708
...Of language, modes of statement or representation; also of tones, gesture, etc.: Forcibly expressive....
11. enfranchise, v. View full entry 1514
...To admit to freedom, set free (a slave or serf)....
12. epicene, adj. and n. View full entry 1528
...Grammar. In Latin and Greek grammar, said of nouns which, without changing their grammatical gender, may denote either sex. Hence (improperly) epicene gender. In English grammar the term has...
13. fall, v. View full entry c890
...intr. To drop from a high or relatively high position. Const. †in, into, to, on, upon; also, to the earth...
14. front, n. (and adj.) View full entry c1290
...= forehead1. Now only poet. or in highly rhetorical language....
15. general, adj. and n. View full entry c1230
...Including, participated in by, involving, or affecting, all, or nearly all, the parts of a specified whole, or the persons or things to which there is an implied reference; completely or approximately...
16. gerundive, adj. and n. View full entry 1483
...Pertaining to, akin to, or of the nature of, a gerund. (Cf. B. 2.)...
17. grammar, n. View full entry c1320
...That department of the study of a language which deals with its inflexional forms or other means of indicating the relations of words in the sentence, and with the rules for employing...
18. grandam | grandame, n. View full entry a1225
...= grandmother1....
19. great, adj., adv., and n. View full entry c888
...Composed of large particles; coarse of grain or texture. Of diet: Coarse, not delicate. In Old Cookery, applied sometimes to boiled meat in contradistinction to roast. Obs. exc....
20. hard, adj. and n. View full entry 971
...A primary adjective expressing consistency of matter: That does not yield to blows or pressure; not easily penetrated or separated into particles; firm and resisting to the touch; solid, compact in substance...
