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1. Aaron, n.2 View full entry 1565
...A person resembling the Jewish high priest Aaron, esp. a high priest, a leader....
2. Aaronical, adj. View full entry ?1549
...Of or relating to Aaron; Aaronic....
3. Aaron's bells, n. View full entry 1581
...Originally: the small bells attached to the hem of Aaron's ephod (see quot. 1611 in etymology). In later use also: small bells used as Torah scroll ornaments. Also fig....
4. † ab, n.1 View full entry 1587
...Moisture within timber; sap....
5. † aback, n. View full entry 1592
...A square section or area, sometimes containing an inscription....
6. † abail, v.2 View full entry 1513
...trans. To reach, get to....
7. abalienate, v. View full entry a1555
...trans. To estrange or alienate in feeling; to cause to feel removed or distant. Also: to remove, distance. Freq. with from. Now rare....
8. abalienation, n. View full entry 1596
...Removal or transferral of feeling; estrangement, alienation....
9. abanderado, n. View full entry 1598
...A standard-bearer....
10. † abannition, n. View full entry 1583
...An act or the action of banishing someone, usually for a year as a punishment for manslaughter....
11. abased, adj. View full entry 1554
...Made lower in rank, condition, or character; humbled, humiliated, degraded....
12. abaser, n. View full entry 1587
...A person who, or thing which, abases....
13. abasing, n. View full entry 1548
...The action or an act of lowering in rank, condition, or character; humbling, humiliation, degradation....
14. abastardize, v. View full entry 1574
...trans. To declare or render illegitimate; (hence) to make corrupt or degenerate; to debase. Cf. bastardize...
15. abator, n.2 View full entry 1592
...= abater...
16. abature, n. View full entry 1575
...Chiefly in pl. The traces left by a stag in the undergrowth through which it has passed. Also fig. and in figurative contexts....
17. abbé, n.1 View full entry 1530
...In France or French contexts: an abbot. Also: a priest or clergyman in minor orders; esp. one without an assigned ecclesiastical duty, formerly often acting as a professor, private tutor,...
18. abbreviator, n. View full entry 1529
...A person who shortens or abridges something, esp. a text; a summarizer; a compiler. Also: a person given to the use of abbreviations....
19. abbreviature, n. View full entry 1578
...An abbreviated or condensed form of a text, treatment of a subject, etc.; a brief account; an abridgement; a summary. Also fig.: a representation or embodiment of something in miniature;...
20. abdicate, v. View full entry 1532
...trans. To proclaim or declare to be no longer one's own; to disown, cast off; esp. to disown or disinherit a child. Obs. (hist. in...
