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1. abuse, v. View full entry c1430
...trans. To use (something) improperly, to misuse; to make a bad use of; to pervert; to take advantage of wrongly....
2. † acate, n. View full entry ?1406
...Buying, purchasing, purchase. Also in figurative context....
3. acrospire, v. View full entry c1430
...intr. Of (a grain of) barley or similar crop, esp. one used for malting: to produce a shoot; to sprout at both ends....
4. aftermath, n. View full entry 1496
...Agric. A second crop or new growth of grass (or occas. another plant used as feed) after the first has been mown or harvested. Also fig....
5. aleberry, n. View full entry 1440
...A drink made from ale boiled with spices and sugar, served with sops of bread and freq. given to sick people. Also called alebrue, alemeat....
6. alefounder, n. View full entry 1483-4
...An official appointed to test the ale brewed in a particular area; = ale conner...
7. aletaster, n. View full entry c1430
...An officer appointed to test the ale brewed (and sometimes the bread baked) in a particular area; = ale conner...
8. allay, v.4 View full entry a1475
...trans. To carve (a bird, esp. a pheasant)....
9. alphabet, n. View full entry ?a1475
...A set of letters arranged in a conventional order used in a particular writing system; esp. (with the) the set of 26 letters from A to Z used...
10. ambergris, n. View full entry 1481-90
...A wax-like substance of marbled ashy colour, found floating in tropical seas, and as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm-whale. It is odoriferous and used in perfumery; formerly in...
11. aqua-vitae, n. View full entry 1471
...A term of the alchemists applied to ardent spirits or unrectified alcohol; sometimes applied, in commerce, to ardent spirits of the first distillation....
12. Arctic, adj. and n. View full entry c1400
...Astron. Designating the celestial north pole, and the Pole Star that marks its position in the sky. Chiefly, and now only, in particular compounds, as Arctic Circle2 and...
13. audit, n. View full entry 1435-6
...gen. A hearing, an audience; esp. a judicial hearing of complaints, a judicial examination. arch....
14. auld, adj. View full entry 1489
...= old; as in auld lang-syne, ‘old long-since,’ old long-ago (used subst.); Auld Reekie, ‘Old Smoky,’ a sobriquet of Edinburgh; auldfarrand, ‘favouring,’ i.e...
15. baby, n. and adj. View full entry c1400
...A very young child, esp. one not yet able to walk and dependent on the care of others; an infant. Also applied to an unborn child. Formerly also: †a child...
16. † bakbred(e, n. View full entry 1483
...A board on which bread is made, a paste-board; = bakeboard...
17. † ˈbake-meat, n. View full entry c1405
...Pastry, a pie....
18. † balˈductum | balˈducta, n. View full entry c1450
...A posset, hot milk curdled with ale or wine....
19. balneum, n. View full entry 1471
...A bath or bathing....
20. banquet, n.1 View full entry 1483
...A feast, a sumptuous entertainment of food and drink; now usually a ceremonial or state feast, followed by speeches....
