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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. Abdul, n. View full entry 1870
...Originally: a male Turk; spec. (chiefly Austral. and N.Z.) a Turkish soldier in the First World War (191418); (also) Turkish soldiers collectively. Later...
3. 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....
4. accommodation, n. View full entry 1566
...Adaptation; the process of being adapted....
5. ace, n.1 and adj. (and int.) View full entry ?a1300
...A single point in a game, and related uses....
6. acid, adj. and n. View full entry 1626
...In general use: sour, tart, sharp to the taste; tasting like vinegar....
7. advantage, n. View full entry c1300
...Benefit; increased well-being or convenience. As a count noun: a benefit received....
8. after, n.2 View full entry 1906
...= afternoon1. Chiefly in this after....
9. agist, v. View full entry a1450
...trans. To let or hire (land, originally woodland) for pasture....
10. agisted, adj. View full entry 1669
...Of an animal: that has been put to pasture, usually for hire on land not belonging to their owner. Also of land: used by livestock that has been agisted....
11. agisting, n. View full entry 1598
...The action of taking livestock in to pasture on agistment....
12. agistment, n. View full entry a1447
...The rate levied on or profit made from the pasturing of another person's cattle....
13. ake, n. View full entry 1835
...= akeake...
14. akeake, n. View full entry 1841
...Any of several shrubs or small trees sometimes used for their hard timber, esp. the hop-bush, Dodonaea viscosa (family Sapindaceae), and any of several olearias (family...
15. all-up, adj. and n. View full entry 1923
...Chiefly in all-up weight....
16. 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,...
17. aroha, n. View full entry 1846
...Chiefly in Maori contexts: love, affection; warmth of feeling; an instance of this. Cf. aloha...
18. art, n.1 View full entry c1300
...Skill in doing something, esp. as the result of knowledge or practice....
19. Arthur, n. View full entry c1425
...Astron. In the genitive, forming names for the distinctive group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major called the Plough (also the Big Dipper), and...
20. artist, n. View full entry 1563
...A person who pursues a craft or trade; a craftsperson, an artisan. Obs....
