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1. 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....
2. aefauldly, adv. View full entry OE
...Once, singly. Also: (Grammar) in the singular. Obs....
3. 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....
4. 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....
5. alleluia, int. and n.1 View full entry eOE
...‘Praise the Lord’: used as an expression of worship. Now also in weakened or ironic use. Freq. in psalms, prayers, and other devotional compositions....
6. 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....
7. angel, n. View full entry c950
...A ministering spirit or divine messenger; one of an order of spiritual beings superior to man in power and intelligence, who, according to the Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and other theologies, are the...
8. anneal, v. View full entry a1000
...To set on fire, kindle, inflame. lit. and fig.Obs....
9. answer, n. View full entry c950
...A reply made to a charge, whereby the accused seeks to clear himself; a defence. spec. in Law, The counter-statement made in reply to a complainant's bill of...
10. answer, v. View full entry c950
...intr. To speak in reply or opposition to a charge or accusation, to make a rebutting statement, defend oneself....
11. ant, n.1 View full entry eOE
...Any of various small insects constituting the family Formicidae of the order Hymenoptera, which typically live in complex social colonies, are usually wingless except for fertile adults in...
12. anthem, n. View full entry a1000
...A composition, in prose or verse, sung antiphonally, or by two voices or choirs, responsively; an antiphonObs. or arch....
13. ape, n. View full entry a700
...An animal of the monkey tribe (Simiadæ); before the introduction of ‘monkey’ (16th c.), the generic name, and still (since 1700) sometimes so used poetically or rhetorically, or...
14. 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,...
15. as, adv. and conj. View full entry OE
...Of quantity or degree: in that degree, to that extent (in or to which). Obs....
16. † aˈwrite, v. View full entry c885
...To write....
17. 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...
18. bare, adj., adv., and n. View full entry c885
...Of the body or its parts: Unclothed, naked, nude....
19. barn, n. View full entry c950
...A covered building for the storage of grain; and, in wider usage, of hay, straw, flax, and other produce of the earth....
20. be-, prefix View full entry a1000
...Forming derivative verbs, with sense of ‘around’:...
