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1. a-, prefix3 View full entry 1673
...(No longer productive.) Forming verbs, adverbs, and prepositions, originally with the senses ‘on’, ‘on to’....
2. abditory, n. View full entry 1658
...A safe repository for valuables; a hiding place (lit. and fig.)....
3. ablaze, adj. and adv. View full entry a1676
...That is on fire; in flames, burning vigorously. Freq. in all ablaze....
4. ablepsy, n. View full entry 1616
...Physical or mental blindness....
5. aboriginary, adj. and n. View full entry 1653
...Original; first or earliest as recorded by history. Cf. aboriginal1a. Obs.rare....
6. abrupt, v. View full entry 1634
...trans. To break off, to sever; to interrupt suddenly; to curtail....
7. abscind, v. View full entry 1610
...trans. To cut off; to separate, detach. Now rare and literary....
8. absinthian, adj. View full entry a1635
...Of, relating to, or suggestive of wormwood; bitter, harsh. In later use also: of or relating to absinthe and its properties (esp. its yellow-green colour)....
9. absorbing, adj. View full entry 1666
...lit. That absorbs; (also) that incorporates or assimilates....
10. abstergent, adj. and n. View full entry 1617
...Having a cleansing or abrading quality; cleansing, abrading (lit., esp. with reference to the body, and fig.). Cf. abstersive...
11. accessless, adj. View full entry ?1614
...Having no means of access or approach; inaccessible. Later also: having no access to something....
12. acerb, adj. View full entry a1616
...Of food or flavour: astringently sour or harsh-tasting....
13. adhesiveness, n. View full entry 1663
...The quality of being adhesive (lit. and fig.)....
14. † adorn, adj. View full entry 1667
...Adorned, ornate....
15. † advesperate, v. View full entry 1623
...intr. To grow dark, to become night....
16. aequoreal, adj. View full entry 1647
...Marine, oceanic....
17. affrighten, v. View full entry 1615
...trans. = affright1. Also occas. intr....
18. afterpiece, n. View full entry 1642
...Any additional item that follows a main work; (Theatre) an additional entertainment, spoken or sung, usually but not invariably comic, intended to be performed after a play or other theatrical...
19. agelastic, n. and adj. View full entry 1623
...A person who never laughs; = agelastObs.rare....
20. agrestic, adj. View full entry 1617
...Of or belonging to the countryside; rural, rustic. Hence in extended use: coarse, uncouth, rough; (also) simple, unsophisticated....