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1. big, adj. and adv. View full entry c1300
...Of a person or animal: strong, sturdy, mighty; stout-hearted, courageous. Cf. rich1. Obs....
2. campus, n. View full entry 1774
...The grounds of a college or university; the open space between or around the buildings; a separate part of a university. Hence allusively, university or college life or people. Also attrib....
3. hall, n.1 View full entry 971
...A large place covered by a roof; in early times applied to any spacious roofed place, without or with subordinate chambers attached; a temple, palace, court, royal residence. Obs. in...
4. inn, n. View full entry c1000
...A dwelling-place, habitation, abode, lodging; a house (in relation to its inhabitant)....
5. 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...
6. Lambeth, n. View full entry 1859
...Used allusively (chiefly attrib.) to refer to the Archbishop of Canterbury, whose palace is at Lambeth, or to the Church of England; esp. in Lambeth ConferenceLambeth degree...
7. lick, v. View full entry a1000
...trans....
8. lion, n. View full entry c825
...A large carnivorous quadruped, Felis leo, now found native only in Africa and southern Asia, of a tawny or yellowish brown colour, and having a tufted tail. The male is...
9. lord, n. View full entry 831
...A master of servants; the male head of a household. Obs....
10. lyceum, n. View full entry 1579-80
...(With capital initial.) The proper name of a garden with covered walks at Athens, in which Aristotle taught his philosophy. Hence, the Aristotelian philosophy and its adherents....
11. mark, n.1 View full entry eOE
...A boundary, frontier, or limit. Also: land within or near certain boundaries (cf. march). Obs....
12. midnight, n. and adj. View full entry eOE
...The middle of the night; spec. (now the usual sense) 12 o'clock at night....
13. minor, adj. and n. View full entry c1230
...Used chiefly as postmodifier....
14. moonlight, n. and adj. View full entry c1300
...The light of the moon; the moon's radiance. Also fig....
15. name, n. and adj. View full entry eOE
...A proper noun; a word or phrase constituting the individual designation by which a particular person or thing is known, referred to, or addressed....
16. oak, n. and adj. View full entry eOE
...Either of two major British and European deciduous forest trees of the genus Quercus (family Fagaceae), Q. robur (also called common oak, English...
17. oil, n.1 View full entry 1221
...As a mass noun: any of a number of liquids of natural or artificial origin which have a smooth, sticky, unctuous, feel and are insoluble in water (but soluble in organic solvents),...
18. point, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...A separate or single item, article, or element in an extended whole (usually an abstract whole, as a course of action, a subject of thought, a treatise, a discourse, a set of...
19. pot, n.1 View full entry OE
...A relatively deep vessel (typically with a cylindrical or otherwise rounded body and made of earthenware, metal, plastic, etc.) used chiefly to hold a liquid or solid substance....
20. put, v. View full entry OE
...intr. To push, poke, knock, or strike (at, on, etc.); to deliver a thrust or blow; to nudge at. Now rare (Sc....
