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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. acorn, n. View full entry eOE
...The fruit of any tree producing mast. Also as a mass noun: †= mast1a (obs.). Now rare and only with contextual indication....
4. à la mode, adv., adj., n., and prep. View full entry 1637
...In accordance with the fashion; in a modish manner; fashionably....
5. Alaska, n. View full entry 1867
...the purchase by the United States from Russia, in 1867, of the territory now constituting the state of Alaska. Cf. purchase13c....
6. alcoholic, adj. and n. View full entry 1732
...Of a thermometer: using alcohol as the liquid whose position in the bore of a thin glass tube indicates the temperature....
7. alky, n. View full entry 1844
...Alcohol; spec. (illicit) alcoholic liquor. Freq. personified in early use....
8. almond, n. and adj. View full entry c1330
...An oval, nut-like, oil-rich kernel with a light brown skin and a hard pitted shell, most varieties of which are edible, obtained from the tree Prunus amygdalus (see sense ...
9. alphabet, n. View full entry ?a1475
...A set of letters arranged in a conventional order used in a particular writing system; esp. (with the) the set of 26 letters from A to Z used...
10. American, n. and adj. View full entry 1568
...An indigenous inhabitant of (any part of) the Americas; an American Indian. Now only with modifying word, as indigenous American, original American, etc.; see also Native American...
11. ancho, n. View full entry 1929
...A dried poblano chilli pepper, used esp. in Mexican and Mexican-style cookery. Also (occas.): a fresh poblano pepper; the plant that bears this fruit. More fully ancho chilli. Cf. ...
12. angel, n. View full entry c950
...A ministering spirit or divine messenger; one of an order of spiritual beings superior to man in power and intelligence, who, according to the Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and other theologies, are the...
13. 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,...
14. apple pie, n. View full entry 1589
...A pie made with apples....
15. Arctic, adj. and n. View full entry c1400
...Astron. Designating the celestial north pole, and the Pole Star that marks its position in the sky. Chiefly, and now only, in particular compounds, as Arctic Circle2 and...
16. ash, n.2 View full entry c950
...The powdery residue, composed chiefly of earthy or mineral particles, left after the combustion of any substance....
17. ash-cake, n. View full entry 1809
...A cake baked in or under the ashes of a fire....
18. atole, n. View full entry 1716
...A kind of corn or other meal; gruel or porridge made of this....
19. au jus, adj., adv., and n. View full entry 1865
...As postmodifier: designating a dish, usually meat, prepared or served in a gravy containing its own juices. Cf. jus...
20. 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...
