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1. ack, n. View full entry 1898
...A syllable used to represent the letter a in signalling and telephone communications, and in the oral spelling of messages....
2. alakazam, int. View full entry 1902
...Used as an exclamation imparting supposed magical power, as when performing a trick. Hence in extended use, connoting any sudden transformation or happening. Cf. abracadabra...
3. Anectine, n. View full entry 1950
...A proprietary name for the drug suxamethonium chloride....
4. Antron, n. View full entry 1960
...A proprietary name for a type of strong, light nylon fibre used in the manufacture of carpets, upholstery fabrics, etc.; also used of fabrics made from this fibre....
5. aspartic, adj. View full entry 1836
...Of or pertaining to asparagine; esp. in aspartic acid, C4H7NO4, produced by the action of alkalis or acids on asparagine. ˈaspartate...
6. bandersnatch, n. View full entry 1871
...A fleet, furious, fuming, fabulous creature, of dangerous propensities, immune to bribery and too fast to flee from; later, used vaguely to suggest any creature with such qualities....
7. baralipton, n. View full entry 1653
...A term constructed to represent by its first three vowels, etc. the first indirect mood of the first figure of syllogisms, in which the two premisses are universal affirmatives, and the conclusion...
8. barbola, n. View full entry 1927
...In full barbola work, decorative work composed chiefly of flowers and fruit modelled in a plastic paste and coloured, used to embellish small articles of wood, glass, pulp, etc....
9. blatant, adj. and n. View full entry 1596
...In the phrase ‘blat(t)ant beast’, taken from Spenser (cf. F.Q.v. xii. 37, 41; vi. i. 7, iii. 24, ix. 2, x. 1, xii. advt., xii....
10. bleomycin, n. View full entry 1966
...An antineoplastic drug consisting of a glycopeptide or mixture of glycopeptides from the bacterium Streptomyces verticillus....
11. blik, n. View full entry 1950
...R. M. Hare's word for a behavioural or affective tendency which influences one's interpretation of experience, a personal slant (on something); a conviction, esp. a religious one....
12. Bonzo, n. View full entry 1927
...The figure of a comically-shaped puppy which came into vogue through a series of drawings by G. E. Studdy (the first of which appeared in ‘The Sketch’ 8 Nov. 1922),...
13. boojum, n. View full entry 1904
...An imaginary animal, a particularly dangerous kind of ‘snark’....
14. ˈBungtown, n. View full entry 1787
...Bungtown copper or cent, a counterfeit English halfpenny or other spurious copper coin. Also ellipt....
15. † burˈgullian, n. View full entry 1601
...A braggadocio, bully....
16. byte, n. View full entry 1964
...A group of eight consecutive bits operated on as a unit in a computer....
17. cambozola, n. View full entry 1984
...A proprietary name for a type of German blue soft cheese with a Camembert-like rind, and produced using Gorgonzola blue mould....
18. † chopness, n. View full entry 1766
...(See quot.)...
19. contango, n. View full entry 1853
...The percentage which a buyer of stock pays to the seller to postpone transfer to the next or any future settling day; continuation; the opposite of backwardationcontango-day: continuation-day, the...
20. Dacron, n. View full entry 1951
...The proprietary name for polyethylene terephthalate used as a textile fibre. Cf. Terylene...
