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1. Academe, n. View full entry 1598
...orig. and chiefly literary. = academy2....
2. aconite, n. View full entry 1569
...Any of various poisonous Eurasian plants constituting the genus Aconitum (family Ranunculaceae), having spikes of hooded flowers, formerly (and sometimes still) used as a poison or for medicinal...
3. † agrest, adj. and n. View full entry ?1440
...Belonging to the fields; uncultivated, wild; = agrestial; (hence) inferior, coarse....
4. air, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...An atmosphere contaminated by noxious fumes, vapours, etc.; such contaminating fumes themselves; miasma. Now only (with qualifying adjective) merged in sense 2a....
5. 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....
6. anadem, n. View full entry 1604
...A wreath for the head, usually of flowers; a chaplet, a garland....
7. approximation, n. View full entry 1646
...The action of bringing or coming near in place, time, or any conception to which ideas of space apply; approach; the state of being near, proximity. lit. and fig....
8. arbute, n. View full entry 1551
...= arbutus Also attrib....
9. artillery, n. View full entry c1405
...As a count noun: an implement of war. In later use as a mass noun: military equipment; weaponry. Also in extended use: hunting gear; equipment in general. Obs....
10. at, prep. View full entry 755
...The most general determination of simple localization in space, expressing, strictly, the simple relation of a thing to a point of space which it touches; hence, usually determining a point or object...
11. autumn, n. View full entry c1374
...The third season of the year, or that between summer and winter, reckoned astronomically from the descending equinox to the winter solstice; i.e. in the northern hemisphere, from 21 September to 21...
12. baby, n. and adj. View full entry c1400
...A very young child, esp. one not yet able to walk and dependent on the care of others; an infant. Also applied to an unborn child. Formerly also: †a child...
13. backward, adv., adj., and n.2 View full entry a1300
...Of motion: In the direction of one's back or of that to which one's back is turned, as to lean backward, bend backward, fall backward, ...
14. balk, v.1 View full entry 1393
...trans. (and absol.) To make balks in ploughing; to plough up in ridges. Obs....
15. ball, n.1 View full entry 1166
...A rounded hill, a knoll. Now Eng. regional (south-west.)....
16. band, n.1 View full entry ?c1200
...Anything with which one's body or limbs are bound, in restraint of personal liberty; a shackle, chain, fetter, manacle. arch....
17. 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....
18. beast, n. View full entry c1210
...A living being, an animal. (Used to translate Greek ζῳ̑ον, or Latin animal, esp. in versions of the Bible. Now restricted in literary use as in sense ...
19. beat, v.1 View full entry c885
...trans. To strike with repeated blows. to beat the breast: i.e. in sign of sorrow....
20. beating, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The infliction of repeated blows; spec. the action of inflicting blows in punishment; the dashing of waves against the shore; the whipping up of a fluid; the flapping of wings;...
