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1. 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....
2. acquiescement, n. View full entry 1721
...= acquiescence...
3. acquiescency, n. View full entry 1646
...= acquiescence (in various senses)....
4. 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....
5. † anteˈgenital, adj. View full entry ?a1656
...Previous to birth: (erron. ‘Born before, elder born.’ Blount Glossogr.1656.)...
6. aquiculture, n. View full entry 1867
...Culture of the natural produce of water; fish-breeding as a branch of industry. Cf. aquaculture...
7. arrest, v. View full entry c1374
...To stop, come to a stand, halt. Obs....
8. ascribe, v. View full entry 1382
...trans. To annex or add in writing, to subscribe:...
9. assoil, v. View full entry 1297
...To absolve from sin, grant absolution to, pardon, forgive; = absolve2 ‘Whom God assoil!’ (Old French que Dieu assoille! Latin quem Deus absolvat!):...
10. averruncate, v. View full entry 1623
...prop. To avert, ward off....
11. averruncation, n. View full entry 1656
...prop. The warding off or averting (of evils)....
12. avert, v. View full entry a1400
...trans. To turn away:...
13. bank, n.2 View full entry 1275
...A long seat for several to sit on, a bench, or form; a platform or stage to speak from. Obs. (Cf. mountebank)...
14. be, v. View full entry eOE
...To have place in the objective universe or realm of fact, to exist; (spec. of God, etc.) to exist independently of other beings. Also: to exist in life, to live....
15. brock, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A badger: a name, in later times, associated especially with the epithet stinking....
16. calcariferous, adj. View full entry 1853
...‘Bearing spurs’ (New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon)....
17. calcariform, adj. View full entry
...‘Shaped like a calcar or spur’ (Treasury Bot.)....
18. ˌcamiˈsado, n. View full entry 1548
...A night attack; originally one in which the attacking party wore shirts over their armour as a means of mutual recognition. (A very common word in 16–17th c.)...
19. cinereous, adj. View full entry 1661
...Of an ashy hue, ash-coloured, ashen-gray; spec. in names of birds having ash-coloured feathers, as the cinereous crow, cinereous eagle, etc....
20. cinerescent, adj. View full entry 1816
...Inclining to ash-colour; grayish....
