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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. † aa, n.1 View full entry 1430
...A stream, a watercourse....
3. aaron, n.1 View full entry ?c1425
...The wild arum or cuckoo pint, Arum maculatum. Cf. arum...
4. Aaron, n.2 View full entry 1565
...A person resembling the Jewish high priest Aaron, esp. a high priest, a leader....
5. Aaron's beard, n. View full entry 1820
...Any of several plants which are thought to resemble a beard in growth, habit, or appearance; esp.the rose of Sharon, Hypericum calcinum, which has prominent tufts of hair-likeeither...
6. 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....
7. Aaron's serpent, n. View full entry 1732
...= Aaron's rod1....
8. † ab, n.1 View full entry 1587
...Moisture within timber; sap....
9. aba, n.2 View full entry 1876
...A simplified type of theodolite lacking the artificial horizon sometimes required by the sextant....
10. abac, n. View full entry 1890
...A type of nomogram in which the required value is determined by use of a ruler or other straight edge....
11. abaciscus, n. View full entry 1753
...A square section containing part or all of the pattern of a mosaic pavement; (also) a single mosaic tile, a tessera. Now rare....
12. † aback, n. View full entry 1592
...A square section or area, sometimes containing an inscription....
13. abaction, n. View full entry 1623
...The action of driving something away; spec. the action of stealing livestock, esp. cattle, by driving them away....
14. abaculus, n. View full entry 1868
...A square or tile for use in a mosaic pavement; a tessera. Cf. abaciscus...
15. abacus, n. View full entry a1387
...A board or tray strewn with sand in which numbers, letters, diagrams, etc., can be traced and erased. Cf. sandboard1, sand-table(a)sand2a. Now rare...
16. abaisance, n. View full entry a1486
...An act expressing deference or respect, usually a bending forwards of the body; a bow....
17. abalienation, n. View full entry 1596
...Removal or transferral of feeling; estrangement, alienation....
18. abanderado, n. View full entry 1598
...A standard-bearer....
19. abandonee, n. View full entry 1804
...A person to whom anything is formally or legally abandoned; spec. (in marine insurance) the underwriters to whom all interest in property insured is relinquished after a loss (cf. ...
20. † abannation, n. View full entry 1721
...= abannition...
