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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. able, adj., adv., and n. View full entry a1382
...In predicative use, with for (in early use also with to). Capable of, having sufficient strength or power for; ready for, fit to cope with. Now chiefly ...
3. † abnerval, adj. View full entry 1879
...Of an electrical current in muscle: moving away from the neuromuscular junction....
4. abort, n. View full entry ?a1425
...Abortion; miscarriage; an instance of this. Esp. in to make abort. Obs....
5. absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry c1400
...Grammar....
6. accelerator, n. View full entry 1611
...gen. A person who or thing which accelerates something (in speed, rate, amount, or extent, or in time)....
7. acceptor, n. View full entry c1384
...= accepter of persons (also faces)accepter2....
8. access, n. View full entry c1300
...An attack, or the onset (of fever or disease); a repeated episode (of an intermittent or chronic disease); (esp. in early use) spec. the characteristic paroxysm...
9. account, n. View full entry c1300
...Counting, reckoning, enumeration; computation, calculation; (also) a style or mode of reckoning; an amount established by counting. Now chiefly in money of account: see money2....
10. accouplement, n. View full entry 1483
...The action or fact of coupling one person or thing to another; union, pairing, mating. Also: an instance of this....
11. acetable, n. View full entry c1429
...Roman Hist. = acetabulum1....
12. acetabulum, n. View full entry a1398
...Roman Hist.A cup to hold condiments, esp. vinegar, for serving at the table.A measure of capacity for liquids and dry granular substances, equal to one-eighth of a sextary (sextary...
13. acierage, n. View full entry 1852
...The action or process of coating metal, esp. an engraved copper plate, with a thin layer of steel by means of an electric current....
14. acme, n. View full entry a1568
...The highest point or culmination; the point or period at which something is at its best or most highly developed; (in later use also) a person or thing representing or embodying this....
15. acorn, n. View full entry eOE
...The fruit of any tree producing mast. Also as a mass noun: †= mast1a (obs.). Now rare and only with contextual indication....
16. acoustic, adj. and n. View full entry 1635
...Designating the sense or the organs of hearing; of or relating to the sense of hearing; auditory....
17. acquire, v. View full entry a1450
...trans....
18. acre, n. View full entry OE
...A plot or piece of land, a field; spec. a piece of tilled or arable land. Now arch. and in proper names, as Long Acre....
19. actinism, n. View full entry 1845
...The property by which light or other electromagnetic radiation causes chemical change, as in traditional photography and in photosynthesis. Also in extended use and in figurative contexts....
20. actinize, v. View full entry 1844
...trans. To chemically change (esp. a photographic film or plate) by means of exposure to light. Cf. actinic1, actinism1....
