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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. absence, n. View full entry c1384
...The state of being absent or away from a place, or from the company of a person or persons. Also occas.: an instance of this. Freq. with possessive adjectives. Contrasted with ...
3. accidental, adj., n., and adv. View full entry 1387-8
...Not essential to the existence of a thing; not necessarily present, incidental, secondary, subsidiary....
4. 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....
5. act, n. View full entry a1382
...In pl., with capital initial, and freq. with the. More fully Acts of the Apostles. (The name of) one of the books of the New Testament...
6. action, n. View full entry a1393
...Something done or performed, a deed, an act; (in pl.) habitual or ordinary deeds, conduct....
7. actual, adj. and n. View full entry c1350
...Chiefly Theol. Characteristic of or relating to acts or action; exhibited in or arising from deeds; practical, active. Now chiefly in actual grace and actual sin....
8. affidavit, n. View full entry 1515
...A written statement, formally confirmed by oath or affirmation, for use as evidence in court, or in support of certain applications. Also fig....
9. age, n. View full entry c1275
...A naturally distinct section of a person's or animal's existence; a particular period or stage of life. Often with defining word or phrase specifying the stage....
10. aggravate, v. View full entry 1530
...trans....
11. aggravated, adj. View full entry 1611
...Exasperated, incensed, irritated, provoked. Freq. in predicative use. Now chiefly colloq....
12. aggravation, n. View full entry 1481
...The fact of imposing a burden; oppression. Obs....
13. aid, n. View full entry 1419
...A levy or subsidy paid to the Crown to defray military or other extraordinary expenses. Now chiefly hist....
14. alderman, n. View full entry 1275
...The senior judicial person in an English hundred. Cf. High Constableconstable5b. Now hist....
15. alibi, n., adv., and adj. View full entry 1612
...A plea by a person accused of an act that he or she was elsewhere when it took place; a person who or piece of evidence which supports such a plea....
16. 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....
17. ambulance, n. View full entry 1809
...A moving hospital, which follows an army in its movements, so as to afford the speediest possible succour to the wounded. Often attrib....
18. angle, n.2 View full entry a1325
...A corner of a room or other enclosed space, esp. viewed internally or as a retreating space; a recess, a nook. Also fig....
19. answer, n. View full entry c950
...A reply made to a charge, whereby the accused seeks to clear himself; a defence. spec. in Law, The counter-statement made in reply to a complainant's bill of...
20. arm, n.1 View full entry c885
...The upper limb of the human body, from the shoulder to the hand; the part from the elbow to the hand being the fore-arm....
