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1. aback, adv. View full entry OE
...In a backward direction; to or towards the rear; back. Also fig. and in extended use: from the scene of action, away, to a distance; to a former place or...
2. accent, n. View full entry OE
...Any of a set of marks originally used with a letter to indicate the nature and position of the spoken accent, later of stress, in a written word; (also) any of these...
3. accidia, n. View full entry OE
...= accidie (In early use freq. as a Latin name.)...
4. agone, adj. and adv. View full entry OE
...attrib. Of a period of time: gone by, elapsed. Obs....
5. Albion, n. View full entry OE
...Originally: the island of Britain. Later: the nation of Britain or England, often with reference to past times, or to a romanticized concept of the nation....
6. † alfet, n. View full entry OE
...A type of cauldron, spec. one filled with scalding water and employed in trials of ordeal; (in later use) the ordeal itself....
7. alight, v.2 View full entry OE
...trans. To shed light on; to illuminate, enlighten (lit. and fig.)....
8. almsful, adj. View full entry OE
...Liberal or generous in almsgiving; charitable; (in early use sometimes more generally) †compassionate, merciful (obs.)....
9. atom, n. View full entry OE
...In and with reference to the medieval period: the smallest unit of time, of which there are 376 in a minute and 22,560 in an hour, equal to 1594...
10. † ˈattery | ˈattry, adj. View full entry c1000
...Venomous, poisonous....
11. bathe, v. View full entry c1000
...To immerse, as in a bath:...
12. beclip, v.1 View full entry c1000
...trans. To fold in the arms, embrace, clasp. Obs....
13. beechen, adj. View full entry c1000
...Of, pertaining to, or derived from the beech....
14. † behele, v. View full entry c1000
...To conceal, cover, envelop. lit. and fig....
15. belie, v.2 View full entry OE
...To deceive by lying, tell a lie to. rare....
16. belime, v. View full entry OE
...To glue or stick together. Obs.rare....
17. blow, v.1 View full entry c1000
...intr. The proper verb naming the motion or action of the wind, or of an aerial current. Sometimes with subject it, as ‘it blows hard’, and often with complement,...
18. blow, v.2 View full entry c1000
...intr. To burst into flower; to blossom, bloom....
19. bough, n. View full entry c1000
...The shoulder of an animal. Obs....
20. bower, n.1 View full entry OE
...A dwelling, habitation, abode. In early use lit. A cottage; in later use a poetical word for ‘abode’....
