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1. † abnodate, v. View full entry 1656
...trans. To prune (a tree)....
2. affricate, v. View full entry 1656
...trans. To rub against. Obs.rare....
3. allaborate, v. View full entry 1656
...trans. To produce or develop (greatly) by labour; to enlarge upon. Cf. elaborate...
4. † alumnate, v. View full entry 1656
...trans. To feed, nourish....
5. † anteˈpone, v. View full entry 1656
...To set before, to prefer....
6. † anteˈvene, v. View full entry ?a1656
...‘To come before, to anticipate, or prevent.’ Blount, 1656; Bailey, etc....
7. appui | appuy, v. View full entry 1656
...To prop or stay; spec. in Mil. to post (troops) near some point which affords support....
8. † ˈaratrate, v. View full entry ?a1656
...‘To til or plough, to stir or ear ground.’ Blount Gl.1656....
9. † ˈaridate, v. View full entry 1656
...To make dry, parch, wither....
10. asperate, v. View full entry 1656
...To make rough or uneven in surface, rugged or harsh in sound, manner, etc....
11. † ˈaspernate, v. View full entry ?a1656
...‘To contemn, reject, set light by, or abhor.’ Blount Glossogr.1656....
12. assonate, v. View full entry 1656
...To correspond in sound, esp. in vowel-sound; to rhyme in assonance....
13. † aˈstragalize, v. View full entry ?a1656
...‘To play at dice.’ Cockeram 1623. ‘To play at Dice, Huckle-bones, or Tables.’ Blount Gl.1656....
14. † aˈttaminate, v. View full entry ?a1681
...‘To defile, also to meddle with.’ Blount Glossogr.1681....
15. † aˈttentate, v. View full entry ?a1656
...= attempt; ‘to attempt, assay, or prove.’ Blount Glossogr.1656....
16. † auˈxiliate, v. View full entry 1656
...To help, assist....
17. Bacchanalize, v. View full entry 1656
...intr. To act as a bacchanal, indulge in revelry....
18. † ˈbuccinate, v. View full entry 1656
...‘To blow a trumpet’ (Cockeram 1623)....
19. † caˈcuminate, v. View full entry 1656
...‘To make sharp or pyramidal’ (Johnson)....
20. † ˈcalamize, v. View full entry 1656
...intr. To pipe or sing....
