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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. accent, n. View full entry OE
...Any of a set of marks originally used with a letter to indicate the nature and position of the spoken accent, later of stress, in a written word; (also) any of these...
3. Aeneid, n. View full entry OE
...(The name of) a Latin epic poem in twelve books by Virgil (7019 b.c.) which relates the travels and experiences of Aeneas after the fall of Troy;...
4. Agnus Dei, n. View full entry OE
...A liturgical chant beginning with the words Agnus Dei (‘Lamb of God’), sung or said shortly before the reception of Communion in the Roman Catholic Mass (and, later, in the...
5. amen, int. and n. View full entry c1000
...As a concluding formula (merely transferred from Latin) = Finis....
6. † ˈanlikeness, n. View full entry OE
...The quality of being like to; likeness, resemblance, similitude....
7. annealed, adj. View full entry OE
...Set on fire. Obs....
8. axe | ax, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A tool or instrument for hewing, cleaving, or chopping, trees, wood, ice, etc.; consisting of a squarish head, now usually of iron with a steel edge or blade, fixed by means of...
9. 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...
10. bear, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A heavily-built, thick-furred plantigrade quadruped, of the genus Ursus; belonging to the Carnivora, but having teeth partly adapted to a vegetable diet. ...
11. bend, n.2 View full entry c1000
...A thin flat strip adapted to bind round....
12. bend, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. To put in bonds, to fetter. Obs....
13. binder, n. View full entry OE
...gen. One who binds. (See senses of the verb.)...
14. bit, n.2 View full entry c1000
...The portion of food bitten off at once; as much as is taken in the mouth at once; a mouthful; = bite4. Obs....
15. bite, v. View full entry OE
...trans. To cut into, pierce, or nip (anything) with the teeth....
16. blow, v.1 View full entry c1000
...intr. The proper verb naming the motion or action of the wind, or of an aerial current. Sometimes with subject it, as ‘it blows hard’, and often with complement,...
17. booker, n. View full entry c1000
...A writer of books, a scribe. Obs....
18. bow, n.1 View full entry OE
...gen. A thing bent or fashioned so as to form part of the circumference of a circle or other curve; a bend, a bent line....
19. brass, n. View full entry c1000
...Historically: The general name for all alloys of copper with tin or zinc (and occasionally other base metals). To distinguish alloys of copper and tin, the name bronze has...
20. breast, n. View full entry OE
...Each of the two soft protuberances situated on the thorax in females, in which the milk is secreted for the nourishment of their young; the mamma; also the analogous rudimentary organ of...