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1. abidable, adj. View full entry 1611
...Capable of being borne or endured....
2. absolvatory, adj. View full entry 1611
...= absolutory...
3. abstrusely, adv. View full entry 1611
...Secretly; in a concealed manner. Obs.rare....
4. † abysm, v. View full entry 1611
...intr. To sink into or form an abyss, to engulf....
5. abysmus, n. View full entry 1611
...An abysm or abyss....
6. accelerator, n. View full entry 1611
...gen. A person who or thing which accelerates something (in speed, rate, amount, or extent, or in time)....
7. accompanied, adj. View full entry 1611
...App. = consorteda. Obs.rare....
8. acquaintant, n. View full entry 1611
...= acquaintance2b....
9. admiraless, n. View full entry 1611
...The wife of an admiral. Also: a female admiral....
10. adonize, v. View full entry 1611
...trans. To adorn, beautify; to titivate. Chiefly refl. (used chiefly of men). Formerly also with †it, with reflexive meaning. Now hist....
11. adulterator, n. View full entry 1611
...A person who adulterates or debases by contamination; spec. one who makes something poorer in quality or unusable for its original purpose by adding another substance....
12. † advest, v. View full entry 1611
...trans. To put (a person) in possession of something....
13. † advesture, n. View full entry 1611
...The action or an act of investing or clothing....
14. agriot, n. View full entry 1611
...The sour fruit of a Eurasian cherry, prob. a variety of the morello cherry, Prunus cerasus. Also: the wood of this tree or that of the related Eurasian wild cherry,...
15. Alpic, adj. View full entry 1611
...Of or relating to the Alps; alpine....
16. † ˈammic, adj. View full entry 1611
...an old name for sal ammoniac....
17. annexation, n. View full entry 1611
...The action or process of joining to or uniting:...
18. aˈpothecaryship, n. View full entry 1611
...The practice of an apothecary....
19. appalment, n. View full entry 1611
...The action of overwhelming with dismay; the state of dismay or consternation....
20. aˈttributer, n. View full entry 1611
...One who attributes; an imputer....
