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1. academy, n. View full entry a1382
...With capital initial....
2. acre, n. View full entry OE
...A plot or piece of land, a field; spec. a piece of tilled or arable land. Now arch. and in proper names, as Long Acre....
3. acreman, n. View full entry OE
...A cultivator of the ground, a farmer; a ploughman; spec. †a manorial tenant; (Sc.) a person who rents a piece of ground of a Scottish acre or more....
4. adopt, v. View full entry c1429
...trans....
5. affodill, n. View full entry a1400
...The plant ramsons, Allium ursinum. Obs....
6. afforest, v. View full entry c1503
...trans.Eng. Law. To convert (an area of land) into a royal hunting ground; to give (land) the legal status of a forest (forest2). Cf. disafforest1...
7. afforestable, adj. View full entry 1887
...Of land: capable of being converted into forest or woodland....
8. afforestation, n. View full entry 1598
...Originally: the action or process of giving land the legal status of forest (forest2) (now hist.). Later also: the conversion of land into forest or woodland. Also:...
9. 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....
10. afterings, n. View full entry 1609
...That which remains or is left; the remnant, the remains; (Theol.) a part of the suffering of Christ that remains in the flesh of man. Now Sc. and...
11. 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....
12. allotment, n. View full entry 1528-30
...A share, portion, or amount of something that has been allotted to someone....
13. American, n. and adj. View full entry 1568
...An indigenous inhabitant of (any part of) the Americas; an American Indian. Now only with modifying word, as indigenous American, original American, etc.; see also Native American...
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. apple, v. View full entry 1601
...intr. Of vegetables, flower buds, and esp. (in later use) root crops: to swell into a globular shape; to become shaped like an apple....
16. ark, n. View full entry c825
...A chest, box, coffer, close basket, or similar receptacle; esp....
17. 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...
18. aver, n. View full entry 1330
...collect. sing. Possession, property, estate, wealth; money....
19. † awe-band, n. View full entry c1540
...A curb, check, restraint; ‘a band for tying black cattle to the stake..used to keep in order the more unruly animals’ (Jamieson)....
20. 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...
