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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. a, prep.1 View full entry OE
...Expressing position within, situation, etc.: in, with; = on7a13. Now Eng. regional....
3. aback, adv. View full entry OE
...In a backward direction; to or towards the rear; back. Also fig. and in extended use: from the scene of action, away, to a distance; to a former place or...
4. 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....
5. acreman, n. View full entry OE
...A cultivator of the ground, a farmer; a ploughman; spec. †a manorial tenant; (Sc.) a person who rents a piece of ground of a Scottish acre or more....
6. adderwort, n. View full entry OE
...The plant bistort, Persicaria bistorta; also called snakeweed; cf. adder's grass1.Dragon arum, Dracunculus vulgaris (obs.)....
7. againwards, prep. and adv. View full entry OE
...In a direction facing, towards. Obs....
8. agive, v. View full entry OE
...trans. To give up, give back; to render, surrender. Obs....
9. aldern, adj. and n. View full entry OE
...Of alder (the tree or the wood)....
10. alkin, adj. View full entry OE
...Of every kind or sort; every kind of, all kinds of....
11. alongst, prep. and adv. View full entry OE
...= along1....
12. April, n. View full entry OE
...The fourth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, containing 30 days and falling between March and May....
13. arse, n. View full entry c1000
...The fundament, buttocks, posteriors, or rump of an animal....
14. B, n. View full entry c1000
...The second letter of the Roman alphabet, ancient and modern, corresponding, in position and power, to the Greek Beta, and Phœnician and Hebrew Beth, whence also its form...
15. bale, n.2 View full entry OE
...gen. A great consuming fire, a conflagration; a blazing pile, a bonfire. Obs....
16. barm, n.2 View full entry c1000
...The froth that forms on the top of fermenting malt liquors, which is used to leaven bread, and to cause fermentation in other liquors; yeast, leaven....
17. beadle, n. View full entry c1000
...One who makes a proclamation (on behalf of another); a herald. Obs....
18. bend, n.2 View full entry c1000
...A thin flat strip adapted to bind round....
19. bend, v. View full entry c1000
...trans. To put in bonds, to fetter. Obs....
20. benorth, adv. and prep. View full entry 1087
...To the north. Obs....
