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1. abb, n. View full entry eOE
...Originally: the woof or weft in a web. Later also: the warp in a web. Freq. attrib., as abb thread, abb wool, etc....
2. abbot, n. View full entry eOE
...A man who is the head or superior of an abbey of (Christian) monks. Also used as a title placed before (and in Old English also after) a name....
3. † acold, v. View full entry eOE
...intr. To become cold; (fig.) to decline in ardour, to cool off. Cf. acool1....
4. acorn, n. View full entry eOE
...The fruit of any tree producing mast. Also as a mass noun: †= mast1a (obs.). Now rare and only with contextual indication....
5. adamant, n. and adj. View full entry eOE
...Originally: a hard, strong rock or mineral, not otherwise identified, to which various other (often contradictory) properties were attributed. In later use chiefly a poetical or rhetorical name for: an embodiment of...
6. adder, n.1 View full entry eOE
...In generic sense: a snake, a serpent, esp. with reference to the serpent as a manifestation of the devil in the biblical account of the Fall in the Garden of Eden; (hence,...
7. Afric, n. and adj. View full entry eOE
...A native or inhabitant of Africa, esp. a black African; = African1a....
8. after-, prefix View full entry eOE
...Combinations in which after- is adjectival or adverbial, and indicates that the second element refers to something that comes behind or afterwards, or an action that is performed later....
9. ale, n. View full entry eOE
...Any beer other than lager, stout, or porter; spec. beer brewed by top fermentation. Also: a type of this....
10. 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....
11. all-thing, pron. and adv. View full entry eOE
...Everything. Now Sc....
12. alms, n. View full entry eOE
...Charitable relief given to the poor or needy, usu. (now only) in the form of material gifts, typically of money or food; (in later use esp.) the goods given in...
13. alms-deed, n. View full entry OE
...Originally: a charitable act. In later use spec.: an act of giving alms. Formerly also: †something given as alms, a charitable gift or offering (obs.)....
14. aloe, n. View full entry eOE
...In pl. (in early use occas. sing.). An aromatic resin or wood; spec. the resin or decaying heartwood of any of several South-East Asian trees of...
15. altar, n. View full entry eOE
...A block, table, stand, or other raised structure with a flat top used as the focus for a religious ritual, especially for making sacrifices or offerings to a god or gods....
16. angle, n.1 View full entry eOE
...Originally: a fish hook. In later use also: the apparatus used for fishing in combination with this, as a line, rod, etc. Cf. angle-hook...
17. 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,...
18. atheling, n. View full entry OE
...A member of a noble family, a prince, lord, baron; in Old English poetry often used in pl. for ‘men’ (viri); in later writers often restricted as a historical term...
19. Babylonish, adj. (and n.) View full entry eOE
...Of, from, or relating to the ancient city of Babylon (now in Iraq), or to the ancient Babylonian Empire (hist.). Also: resembling (that of) Babylon or Babylonia. In Old English...
20. beam, n.1 View full entry 826
...A tree; only in Old English, exc. in the now unanalysed compounds, hornbeam, quickbeam, whitebeam or beam-tree, names of trees....
