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1. acquiescency, n. View full entry 1646
...= acquiescence (in various senses)....
2. adaption, n. View full entry 1615
...= adaptation (in various senses)....
3. adjourning, adj. View full entry 1661
...That adjourns (in various senses of the verb); characterized by or involving adjournment....
4. † anteˈgenital, adj. View full entry ?a1656
...Previous to birth: (erron. ‘Born before, elder born.’ Blount Glossogr.1656.)...
5. assoilment, n. View full entry 1611
...The action or condition of absolution from sin, guilt, censure, or accusation....
6. averruncate, v. View full entry 1623
...prop. To avert, ward off....
7. averruncation, n. View full entry 1656
...prop. The warding off or averting (of evils)....
8. beaˈtifically, adv. View full entry 1627
...In a beatific manner; in a way that blesses; catachr. with supreme felicity....
9. cinereous, adj. View full entry 1661
...Of an ashy hue, ash-coloured, ashen-gray; spec. in names of birds having ash-coloured feathers, as the cinereous crow, cinereous eagle, etc....
10. cocoa, n. View full entry 1672
...The seed of Theobroma Cacao, a tropical American tree: more correctly called cacaoObs. Formerly commonly called cocoa-nut, and now often cocoa-bean....
11. consumptuous, adj. View full entry 1601
...Consumptive....
12. cuirassier, n. View full entry 1622
...A horse soldier wearing a cuirass....
13. decamp, v. View full entry 1678
...intr. (Mil.) To break up a camp; to remove from a place of encampment. Hence, said of other bodies or parties leaving a camping-place....
14. divest, v. View full entry a1616
...trans. To unclothe, undress, disrobe; to strip of clothing, or of any covering, ornament, etc....
15. effluvium, n. View full entry 1646
...A flowing out, an issuing forth; a process or manner of issuing forth. Obs....
16. elimination, n. View full entry 1601
...The action of turning persons out of doors, or expelling them from their country; the fact of being thus expelled....
17. eruˈscation, n. View full entry a1652
...= coruscation...
18. esculent, adj. and n. View full entry 1626
...Suitable for food, eatable....
19. esurient, adj. and n. View full entry a1672
...Hungry: in early use chiefly fig. Now humorously pedantic in lit. sense, or (with reminiscence of Juvenal's Græculus esuriens) in the sense ‘impecunious and greedy’....
20. exˈpecting, adj. View full entry 1621
...That expects; expectant....
