n.
1) an average; fat; grown; handsome; middle-aged; old; short; tall; thin; ugly; wise; young ~
2) Cro-Magnon; Heidelberg; Java; Neanderthal; Paleolithic; Peking; Piltdown ~
3) a divorced; family; married; single ~
4) a con, confidence; fancy ( esp. BE ); hatchet; hit ( esp. AE ); idea; ladies'; marked; organization; party ( pol. ); professional; Renaissance; right-hand; self-made; straight; straw ~; yes-~
5) an anchor~; business~; leading ~; lift~ ( BE ); maintenance ~; newspaper~; rewrite; stunt ~; weather~
6) a moving ( AE ), removal ( BE ) ~
7) a second-story ~ ( AE ; CE has cat burglar )
8) ( pol. ) ( AE ) an advance ~
9) enlisted men ( AE ; BE has other ranks )
10) a university ~ ( BE ; AE has college graduate )
11) a lollipop ~ ( BE ; AE has crossing guard )
12) a best ~ (at a wedding)
13) the common ~, the ~ in the street
14) a ~ on horse-hack ('a potential dictator')
15) to a ~ ('everyone')
16) ( misc. ) he's a ~ of his word; ~ is mortal; ( esp. BE ) every ~ jack ('every ~'); a dirty old ~ ( pejor. ) ('an immoral ~'); a medicine ~; the ~ of the year; a ~ of letters; a ~ of action; a ~ of the world