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1. Academe, n. View full entry 1598
...orig. and chiefly literary. = academy2....
2. accumulate, v. View full entry c1487
...trans. To heap up in a mass, to pile up (lit. and fig.); to amass, collect, or accrue (esp. wealth or possessions)....
3. achieve, v. View full entry c1300
...intr. To be successful in doing something; to attain a desired end or level of performance. Also simply: to strive, make an effort....
4. all, adj., pron., and n., adv., and conj. View full entry eOE
...With singular noun. The whole amount, quantity, extent, or compass of; the whole of....
5. audit, n. View full entry 1435-6
...gen. A hearing, an audience; esp. a judicial hearing of complaints, a judicial examination. arch....
6. baby, n. and adj. View full entry c1400
...A very young child, esp. one not yet able to walk and dependent on the care of others; an infant. Also applied to an unborn child. Formerly also: †a child...
7. ˈbatteler, n. View full entry 1604
...lit. One who battels in college; formerly, a rank or order of students at Oxford below Commoners....
8. beat, v.1 View full entry c885
...trans. To strike with repeated blows. to beat the breast: i.e. in sign of sorrow....
9. 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)...
10. 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...
11. 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....
12. book, n. View full entry 872-915
...A writing; a written document; esp. a charter or deed by which land (hence called bócland) was conveyed. Obs....
13. burgh, n. View full entry c1425
...Originally = borough; now restricted to denote a town in Scotland possessing a charter. (The earlier English instances will be found under borough; the examples given here are...
14. bush, n.1 View full entry c1315
...A shrub, particularly one with close branches arising from or near the ground; a small clump of shrubs apparently forming one plant....
15. 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’....
16. city, n. View full entry ?c1225
...orig. A town or other inhabited place. Not a native designation, but app. at first a somewhat grandiose title, used instead of the Old English burh, borough...
17. dame, n. View full entry a1225
...A female ruler, superior or head: = ‘lady’, as fem. of lord (‘our most gracious Sovereign Lady, Queen Victoria’); the superior of a nunnery, an abbess, prioress, etc.;...
18. day, n. View full entry c950
...‘The time between the rising and setting of the sun’ (Johnson); the interval of light between successive periods of darkness or night; in ordinary usage including the lighter part of...
19. dead, adj., n.1, and adv. View full entry c950
...That has ceased to live; deprived of life; in that state in which the vital functions and powers have come to an end, and are incapable of being restored:...
20. † dead, v. View full entry c950
...To become dead....
