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1. absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry c1400
...Grammar....
2. accident, n. View full entry 1395
...Philos. In Aristotelian thought: a property or quality not essential to a substance or object; something that does not constitute an essential component, an attribute. Cf. substance4a....
3. accommodation, n. View full entry 1566
...Adaptation; the process of being adapted....
4. ace, n.1 and adj. (and int.) View full entry ?a1300
...A single point in a game, and related uses....
5. acid, adj. and n. View full entry 1626
...In general use: sour, tart, sharp to the taste; tasting like vinegar....
6. advantage, n. View full entry c1300
...Benefit; increased well-being or convenience. As a count noun: a benefit received....
7. aerial, adj. View full entry ?1545
...Dwelling, flying, or moving in the air, above the earth; occurring or taking place in the air; (spec. of birds or bats) spending much of the time airborne....
8. agist, v. View full entry a1450
...trans. To let or hire (land, originally woodland) for pasture....
9. agistment, n. View full entry a1447
...The rate levied on or profit made from the pasturing of another person's cattle....
10. air, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...An atmosphere contaminated by noxious fumes, vapours, etc.; such contaminating fumes themselves; miasma. Now only (with qualifying adjective) merged in sense 2a....
11. 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....
12. alter, v. View full entry a1398
...trans....
13. amber, n.1 and adj. View full entry 1398
...orig. = ambergris (In 17th c. greece of amber, gris ambre, gray amber.) Obs....
14. apple, n. View full entry eOE
...The round firm fruit (a pome) of any of various wild and cultivated trees of the genus Malus (see sense 4a), occurring in a wide variety of forms,...
15. art, n.1 View full entry c1300
...Skill in doing something, esp. as the result of knowledge or practice....
16. artist, n. View full entry 1563
...A person who pursues a craft or trade; a craftsperson, an artisan. Obs....
17. asthma, n. View full entry a1398
...Difficulty of breathing; spec. a disease of respiration, characterized by intermittent paroxysms of difficult breathing, with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, cough, and expectoration....
18. auction, n. View full entry 1595
...The action of increasing; increase, growth....
19. axe | ax, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A tool or instrument for hewing, cleaving, or chopping, trees, wood, ice, etc.; consisting of a squarish head, now usually of iron with a steel edge or blade, fixed by means of...
20. 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...
