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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. 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....
3. ace, n.1 and adj. (and int.) View full entry ?a1300
...A single point in a game, and related uses....
4. action, n. View full entry a1393
...Something done or performed, a deed, an act; (in pl.) habitual or ordinary deeds, conduct....
5. active, adj. and n. View full entry 1340
...Of a way or style of life: characterized by outward action rather than inward contemplation or speculation; practical. Esp. in active life, and chiefly in religious contexts. Opposed to ...
6. actual, adj. and n. View full entry c1350
...Chiefly Theol. Characteristic of or relating to acts or action; exhibited in or arising from deeds; practical, active. Now chiefly in actual grace and actual sin....
7. add, v. View full entry a1382
...trans. To join (something) to something else so as to increase the amount, size, importance, etc. Freq. with to. Cf. superadd1....
8. addling, n.1 View full entry ?c1200
...The action of earning or deserving something; that which a person earns or merits. Obs....
9. administration, n. View full entry c1350
...The action, or (occas.) an act, of administering or giving something to a person. Freq. with of....
10. administrator, n. View full entry 1434
...Law....
11. adventure, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A chance occurrence or event, an accident. Obs....
12. after, adv., prep., and conj. View full entry eOE
...Behind something in place or position; in the rear; further back....
13. after-, prefix View full entry eOE
...Combinations in which after- is adjectival or adverbial, and indicates that the second element refers to something that comes behind or afterwards, or an action that is performed later....
14. against, prep., conj., adv., and n. View full entry eOE
...In reception of, in welcome of. Obs....
15. age-related, adj. View full entry 1942
...Related to or associated with age, esp. advancing age....
16. aggregate, n. and adj. View full entry a1425
...A complex whole, mass, or body formed by the union of numerous units or particles; an assemblage, a collection....
17. agree, v. View full entry a1413
...trans....
18. aid, n. View full entry 1419
...A levy or subsidy paid to the Crown to defray military or other extraordinary expenses. Now chiefly hist....
19. ale, n. View full entry eOE
...Any beer other than lager, stout, or porter; spec. beer brewed by top fermentation. Also: a type of this....
20. all, adj., pron., and n., adv., and conj. View full entry eOE
...With singular noun. The whole amount, quantity, extent, or compass of; the whole of....
