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1. abased, adj. View full entry 1554
...Made lower in rank, condition, or character; humbled, humiliated, degraded....
2. abstract, adj. and n. View full entry a1398
...Of a word: denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object. Freq. in abstract noun. Opposed to concrete....
3. accollé, adj. View full entry 1664
...Entwined, wreathed; (spec. of a heraldic animal) wreathed about the neck, collared, gorged. Cf. accolled1, 2. Now rare....
4. accolled, adj. View full entry 1612
...Heraldry. Intertwined; entwined, wreathed....
5. accompaniment, n. View full entry 1697
...Music....
6. accrued, adj. View full entry 1656
...Accumulated or increased by growth; (esp. of interest, leave) built up over time....
7. addition, n. View full entry c1400
...Something which is added or joined to another thing; an appendix, an augmentation; (also) a person who becomes part of a family or other group of people....
8. adossé, adj. View full entry 1710
...= addorsed...
9. affrontee, adj. View full entry 1718
...orig. Heraldry. Of two figures in a design: facing each other. Cf. affronted3, confronté Now rare....
10. ˈAndrew, n. View full entry 1618
...A broadsword, an ‘Andrea Ferrara.’ Obs.rare....
11. aˈversant, adj. View full entry 1657
...Disinclined, averse. Obs.rare....
12. banner, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...prop. A piece of stout taffeta, or other cloth, attached by one side to the upper part of a long pole or staff, and used as the standard of an emperor,...
13. barb, n.1 View full entry c1374
...The beard of a man. Obs.rare....
14. barbed, adj.1 View full entry a1529
...Bearded. Obs.rare....
15. † ˈbarret, n.1 View full entry 1577
...A little bar....
16. base, n.1 View full entry ?a1325
...Part of a structure....
17. be-, prefix View full entry a1000
...Forming derivative verbs, with sense of ‘around’:...
18. bear, v.1 View full entry c893
...trans. To support the weight of (anything) whilst moving it from one place to another; to carry. Now usually restricted in prose to the carrying of something weighty or which requires...
19. † bebally, adj. View full entry 1486
...Said of a shield: = party per palepale6b, i.e. divided into two parts by a vertical line....
20. bend, n.2 View full entry c1000
...A thin flat strip adapted to bind round....
