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1. † abaeile, v. View full entry OE
...trans. To anger, offend; to provoke....
2. abb, n. View full entry eOE
...Originally: the woof or weft in a web. Later also: the warp in a web. Freq. attrib., as abb thread, abb wool, etc....
3. abbot, n. View full entry eOE
...A man who is the head or superior of an abbey of (Christian) monks. Also used as a title placed before (and in Old English also after) a name....
4. abbotess, n. View full entry eOE
...= abbess1....
5. † abede, v. View full entry eOE
...trans. To proclaim or deliver (a message)....
6. † abelghe, v. View full entry eOE
...trans. To anger, enrage; to offend....
7. † abow, v. View full entry OE
...intr. To bend, incline, bow; (fig.) to do homage or reverence (to), to submit (to)....
8. † abreak, v. View full entry OE
...trans. To break in pieces, shatter. Also fig....
9. † abrede, v. View full entry eOE
...trans. To spread out; to extend. Also: to lay flat....
10. † ac, conj. View full entry eOE
...Introducing a contrary after a negative: = but23....
11. accuse, v. View full entry OE
...trans. Without construction....
12. ache, v. View full entry eOE
...intr. Of a part of the body, a wound, etc.: to be painful or sore. More generally: to be the source or seat of continuous or prolonged dull physical pain or...
13. † achoke, v. View full entry OE
...trans. To choke, suffocate; to block up, obstruct....
14. † achoose, v. View full entry eOE
...trans. To choose, select....
15. † acold, v. View full entry eOE
...intr. To become cold; (fig.) to decline in ardour, to cool off. Cf. acool1....
16. † acool, v. View full entry eOE
...intr. To become cold, to cool; fig. to decline in ardour or passion. Occas. in perfect tense formed with to be....
17. 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....
18. † ad, n.1 View full entry eOE
...A pyre, spec. a funeral pyre. Also: fire as a means of burning bodies....
19. Adam, n.1 View full entry OE
...The first human in the biblical account of the creation of the world, as a symbol of humanity or human nature, esp. of the state of sin into which, according to traditional...
20. adamant, n. and adj. View full entry eOE
...Originally: a hard, strong rock or mineral, not otherwise identified, to which various other (often contradictory) properties were attributed. In later use chiefly a poetical or rhetorical name for: an embodiment of...
