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1. age, n. View full entry c1275
...A naturally distinct section of a person's or animal's existence; a particular period or stage of life. Often with defining word or phrase specifying the stage....
2. 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...
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. class, n. and adj. View full entry 1533
...Roman Hist. A group of Roman citizens who could meet a certain minimum wealth qualification; spec. each of the five groups into which property owners were divided for military...
5. Ethiopian, adj. and n. View full entry 1552
...Of or belonging to Ethiopia (in the various historical uses of the name), or to the peoples known to the ancients as Æthiopes. Often used (now only humorously) as =...
6. field, n.1 View full entry eOE
...Open country, esp. as opposed to woodland; a stretch of open land; a plain....
7. gender, n. View full entry c1390
...Grammar....
8. mother, n.1 (and int.) View full entry eOE
...The female parent of a human being; a woman in relation to a child or children to whom she has given birth; (also, in extended use) a woman who undertakes the responsibilities...
9. political, adj. and n. View full entry 1529
...Of, belonging to, or concerned with the form, organization, and administration of a state, and with the regulation of its relations with other states....
10. prescriptive, adj. View full entry 1663
...That prescribes or directs; giving definite, precise directions or instructions. In later use, in Linguistics: that lays down rules of usage. ...
11. primary, adj. and n. View full entry ?a1425
...Occurring or existing first in a sequence of events; belonging to the beginning or earliest stage of something; first in time....
12. public, adj. and n. View full entry 1394
...Open to general observation, view, or knowledge; existing, performed, or carried out without concealment, so that all may see or hear. Of a person: that acts or performs in public....
13. ramage, n.2 View full entry ?1614
...The song or cry of birds. Now rare....
14. same, adj., pron., and adv. View full entry ?c1200
...With forward reference: Identical with what is indicated in the following context....
15. sex, n.1 View full entry a1382
...Either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and many other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions; (hence) the members of these categories...
16. sib, adj. and n.2 View full entry c950
...Related by blood or descent; akin. Now chiefly Sc. or arch., but also used spec. of canaries (see quot. 1882)....
17. simple, adj. and n. View full entry c1220
...Free from duplicity, dissimulation, or guile; innocent and harmless; undesigning, honest, open, straightforward....
18. social, adj. and n. View full entry a1387
...Designating a war fought between allies. Cf. civil1....
19. soul, n. View full entry eOE
...The condition or attribute of life in humans or animals; animate existence; this viewed as a possession of which one is deprived by death. Obs....
20. woman, n. View full entry eOE
...An adult female human being. The counterpart of man (see man4.)....
