(idiomatic) Practical; realistic; pragmatic. / (idiomatic) Ordinary; normal; run-of-the-mill.

Whoever arrives first has the best chance of success; some opportunities are only available to the first competitors.

(transitive) To mark (sheep or other animals) by slitting the ear. / (transitive, by extension) To specify or set aside for a particular purpose, to allocate.

A mark or deformation of the ear of an animal, intended to indicate ownership. / (US, politics) The designation of specific projects in appropriations of funding for general programs.

A district in the geographical centre of England, being the counties of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Rutland and Northamptonshire.

simple past tense and past participle of earn

A position of the body involving full extension of the limbs with both fore- and hind-limbs spread wide, usually referring to humans or heraldic eagles.

The bunny cactus (Opuntia microdasys), which has erect, flat branches covered prominently with bristles.

A parasite, Psoroptes cuniculi, that causes cheyletiellosis and psoroptic mange in rabbits.

Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia, but also including India, Indochina, Malaya and the Malay Archipelago.