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1. agri-, comb. form View full entry 1839
...Forming nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘agriculture (or agricultural) and ——’, as agri-horticulture, agri-fishing, agri-forestry, agri-silviculture, etc....
2. agro-, comb. form View full entry 1893
...Forming esp. temporary and nonce-words with the sense ‘of or relating to agriculture’....
3. Anglo-, comb. form View full entry 1584
...Forming compounds relating to England (or more broadly to Britain: cf. etymological note at England), or to the English (or British)....
4. aver-, comb. form View full entry 1253-1378
...? corn paid as a feudal due or in lieu of service....
5. back-, comb. form View full entry ?c1225
...General senses in combination....
6. bio-, comb. form View full entry 1808
...With the sense ‘biographical’, ‘comprising elements of biography’....
7. bitter-, comb. form View full entry 1551
...Adverbial and parasynthetic....
8. break-, comb. form View full entry c1300
...With verb + object....
9. burn-, comb. form View full entry c1485
...With verb + object....
10. by-, comb. form View full entry c1330
...A Middle English variant spelling of the prefix bi-, be-, under which see most of the words, as, under be-, bycause, bydene,...
11. catch-, comb. form View full entry 1592
...With ns., etc., in objective relation. (The resulting combination is a , but capable also of being used attrib. or as )...
12. check-, comb. form View full entry 1487
...Used attrib. ‘that serves to “check” or control’....
13. chill-, comb. form View full entry 1567
...completely chilled, thoroughly cold; also as , chill coldness....
14. cross-, comb. form View full entry c1330
...General uses in combination....
15. draw-, comb. form View full entry 1488
...the verb-stem in combination:...
16. drumble-, comb. form View full entry 1567
...drumble-beedrumble-doredrumble-drone...
17. electro-, comb. form View full entry 1810
...Used, chiefly in scientific and technical contexts, with the senses ‘carried out by electrical means’, ‘involving or utilizing electricity’, ‘relating to electrons or their electric charge’....
18. Euro-, comb. form View full entry 1850
...General uses. (Often spec. with reference to western or continental Europe.)...
19. gyro-, comb. form View full entry 1817
...comb. form repr. Greek γῦρος in sense of ‘ring, circle, spiral’, as in:...
20. hack-, comb. form View full entry 1411
...stem of hack in Comb., in sense ‘hacking, chopping’....
