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1. abashed, adj. View full entry a1387
...Feeling or caused to feel discomfited or disconcerted, esp. as a result of a sudden sense of shame or embarrassment. Cf. abash...
2. ableness, n. View full entry a1387
...The quality or condition of being able; ability; capacity for doing something. Cf. unableness...
3. ably, adv. View full entry a1387
...In an able manner; with skill, power, or effectiveness; competently, cleverly; †fittingly, suitably, appropriately (obs.). Freq. with modifying adverb....
4. abound, v.2 View full entry a1398
...trans. To set limits to, to restrain. Obs....
5. abouts, adv. and prep. View full entry a1387
...= about (in various senses). Cf. nearabouts...
6. abstractly, adv. View full entry a1398
...Without reference to concrete examples or particular instances; in the abstract....
7. accidentally, adv. View full entry a1398
...Non-essentially, incidentally; as a secondary or subsidiary effect....
8. accounting, n. View full entry a1387
...The action or process of reckoning, counting, or computing; numeration, computation, calculation; (also) an instance of this. Occas. in extended uses. Now chiefly in sense 1b....
9. acrook, adv. View full entry a1387
...In a bend or curve, at an angle; (fig.) awry, crookedly....
10. actualness, n. View full entry a1398
...Effective power; capacity for action. Cf. actuality1. Obs.rare....
11. † adays, adv. View full entry a1387
...In the daytime (as opposed to the night); during the day; by day. Cf. aday2....
12. afforcing, n. View full entry a1398
...Effort, exertion. Obs....
13. † aflash, v. View full entry a1387
...trans. To pour water in quantity and with force; to dash, splash....
14. aforehand, adv. and adj. View full entry a1387
...Formerly, in the past, previously; = beforehand2....
15. † airly, adj. View full entry a1398
...Of air; of the nature of air; aerial....
16. airy, adj. View full entry a1398
...Of or belonging to the air, esp. as distinguished from the earth, water, etc.; living or located in the air....
17. allowing, n. View full entry a1402
...The action or an act of permitting or enabling....
18. All Saints, n. View full entry a1398
...The saints (saint2a) collectively. Cf. All-Hallows1....
19. angle, v.1 View full entry a1398
...Freq. with adverb or prepositional phrase indicating direction....
20. aˈnointment, n. View full entry 1398
...The action or process of anointing....