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1. † ABC, v. View full entry 1611
...intr. To say the alphabet, or letters of the alphabet....
2. abortiveness, n. View full entry 1611
...The quality of being abortive; unproductiveness, fruitlessness; failure. Also: an instance of this....
3. abstractness, n. View full entry 1598
...The quality of being abstract, esp. the quality of existing or being presented in abstract form, rather than with reference to concrete details or particular instances (freq. opposed to ...
4. accessively, adv. View full entry 1611
...By one's own seeking or approaches. Cf. accessive1. Obs....
5. accosting, n. View full entry 1603
...The action or an act of accost Also in extended use....
6. † accrease, n. View full entry 1598
...Growing by addition; increase....
7. acknowledging, adj. View full entry 1603
...That acknowledges (in various senses); (formerly) spec. †that expresses esteem, regard, or gratitude, grateful (obs.); (now usually) that owns, recognizes, or notices something or someone....
8. affectable, adj. View full entry 1611
...= affectible...
9. afforder, n. View full entry 1598
...A person who or thing which provides or supplies something. Chiefly with of....
10. affording, adj. View full entry 1603
...As the second element in compounds: that provides or supplies what is denoted by the first element....
11. affronter, n. View full entry 1598
...A person who deceives or deludes another; a pretender. Obs....
12. aggravator, n.2 View full entry 1598
...A person who or thing which aggravates (in any sense)....
13. † ahoit, adv. View full entry 1598
...In a state of reckless jollity; wantonly, without restraint. Chiefly in all ahoit....
14. ailing, adj. View full entry 1598
...That ails, in various senses; esp. affected by or suffering from illness or poor health; poorly; sickly. Often with implication that the illness, indisposition, etc., is persistent, failing to improve,...
15. all-hail, v. View full entry 1598
...trans. To salute with a cry of ‘all-hail’; to greet, welcome....
16. amusing, n. View full entry 1603
...The action of amuse; amusement. (Now mostly gerundial.)...
17. annually, adv. View full entry 1598
...In annual order or succession; yearly, every year, year by year....
18. aˈppealing, adj. View full entry 1598
...That appeals; applying to a higher tribunal; suppliant, imploring. In mod. use, freq. merging into sense ‘attractive’....
19. † aˈpplaud, n. View full entry 1598
...Applauding; applause, plaudit....
20. † ˈarsefoot, n. View full entry 1598
...A bird; identified by Willoughby with the Great and Little Dabchick, species of the Grebe; by Goldsmith with the Penguin....
