| a |
| 1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group. | |
| There was a man here looking for you yesterday. | |
| 2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word. | |
| I've seen it happen a hundred times. | |
| 3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003) | |
| We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London. | |
| 4. art. The same; one. | |
| We are of a mind on matters of morals. | |
| 5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007) | |
| A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties. | |
| He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head? | |
| 6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc. | |
| 7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it. | |
| The center of the village was becoming a Times Square. | |
| 8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto. | |
| Stand a tiptoe. | |
| 9. prep. To do with separation; In, into. | |
| Torn a pieces. | |
| 10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by. | |
| I brush my teeth twice a day. | |
| 11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with. | |
| 12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In. | |
| A God’s name. | |
| 13. prep. To do with status; In. | |
| King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18) | |
| To set the people a worke. | |
| 14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing. | |
| 1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’ | |
| The times, they are a-changin'. | |
| 15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in. | |
| 1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21 | |
| Jacob, when he was a dying | |
| 16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into. | |
| 17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have. | |
| I'd a come, if you'd a asked. | |
| 18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He. | |
| 19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah. | |
| 20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of. | |
| The name of John a Gaunt. | |
| 21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| 22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All. | |
| female |
| 1. adj. Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs (ova), or to the gender which is typically associated with it. | |
| female authors, the leading male and female artists, a female bird cooing at a male, intersex female patients, a trans female vlogger | |
| 2. adj. Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare feminine), (m.) | |
| stereotypically female pastimes, an insect with typically female coloration | |
| 3. adj. Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex. | |
| the female chromosome; estrogen, the primary female sex hormone, is produced by both females and males | |
| 4. adj. (grammar, less common than 'feminine') Feminine; of the feminine grammatical gender. | |
| 5. adj. (figuratively) Having an internal socket, as in a connector or pipe fitting. | |
| 6. n. One of the female (feminine) sex or gender. | |
| 7. n. (sometimes offensive, see usage notes) A human member of the feminine sex or gender. | |
| 8. n. An animal of the sex that produces eggs. | |
| 9. n. (botany) A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organ capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate | |
| fallow |
| 1. n. (agriculture) Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year. | |
| 2. n. (agriculture) Uncultivated land. | |
| 3. n. The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season. | |
| 4. adj. (of agricultural land) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season. | |
| 5. adj. (of agricultural land) Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time. | |
| 6. adj. (figurative) Inactive; undeveloped. | |
| a fallow period in one's career | |
| 7. v. To make land fallow for agricultural purposes. | |
| 8. adj. Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun. | |
| a fallow deer or greyhound | |
| (color panel, C19A6B) | |
| deer |
| 1. n. A ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae, or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla. | |
| 2. n. (in particular) One of the smaller animals of this family, distinguished from a moose or elk. | |
| I wrecked my car after a deer ran across the road. | |
| 3. n. The meat of such an animal; venison. | |
| Oh, I've never had deer before. | |
| 4. n. (obsolete, except in the phrase "small deer") An animal, especially a quadrupedal mammal, as opposed to a bird, fish, etc. | |
