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1. abuseful, adj. View full entry 1612
...Full of abuse; abusive; harmful. In later use freq. used jocularly in contrast with useful....
2. Aesculapian, adj. and n. View full entry 1604
...Of or relating to Aesculapius; of or relating to medicine or doctors; healing, medical....
3. aldermanikin, n. View full entry 1640
...A little or young alderman....
4. † allicholly, n. View full entry a1616
...= melancholy Cf. allicholly...
5. † allicholly, adj. View full entry a1616
...= melancholy Cf. allicholly...
6. anfractuous, adj. View full entry 1621
...Winding, sinuous, involved; roundabout, circuitous; spiral....
7. Antipodean, adj. and n. View full entry 1640
...Of or pertaining to the opposite side of the world; esp. Australasian....
8. a posteriori, adv. (and adj.) View full entry 1624
...A phrase used to characterize reasoning or arguing from effects to causes, from experience and not from axioms; empirical, inductive; inductively....
9. attack, n. View full entry 1667
...The act of falling upon with force or arms, of commencing battle; an offensive operation; an onset, an assault. The common military term; opposed to defence....
10. attic, n.2 View full entry 1696
...A decorative structure, consisting of a small order (column and entablature) placed above another order of much greater height constituting the main façade. This was usually an Attic order, with pilasters instead...
11. autoschediastical, adj. View full entry 1662
...= autoschediastic (Sometimes in humorous use.)...
12. ˈbasting, n.3 View full entry a1616
...A cudgelling, beating, thrashing. (In ‘a dry basting’ there is a humorous reference to the preceding.)...
13. Bedfordshire, n. View full entry 1665
...Humorously put for bed....
14. ˈbellyship, n. View full entry 1600
...The personality of the belly; cf. lordship5b. (Humorous.)...
15. biblical, adj. View full entry 1652
...Of, relating to, or contained in, the Bible. biblical theology: see theology1a....
16. billet-doux, n. View full entry 1673
...A love-letter. (Now usually jocular.)...
17. bob, v.4 View full entry 1614
...intr. To fish (for eels) with a bob. (Hence humorously, ‘to bob for whales’.)...
18. bovicide, n. View full entry 1678
...A slayer of oxen; humorously a butcher....
19. bow-wow, int. and n. View full entry a1616
...ˈbaʊˈwaʊ An imitation of the barking of a dog....
20. bronchotomist, n. View full entry 1670
...One who performs bronchotomy; (humorously) a cut-throat....
