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1. a, prep.1 View full entry OE
...Expressing position within, situation, etc.: in, with; = on7a13. Now Eng. regional....
2. a-, prefix2 View full entry c1275
...(No longer productive.) Expressing completeness; = y-23....
3. aback, adv. View full entry OE
...In a backward direction; to or towards the rear; back. Also fig. and in extended use: from the scene of action, away, to a distance; to a former place or...
4. abled, adj. and n. View full entry 1576
...Capable; vigorous, thriving. Obs....
5. ableist, adj. View full entry 1981
...Characterized by or exhibiting ableism....
6. aboard, adv. and prep. View full entry a1393
...Alongside, on one side (of a ship or a shore). Freq. modified by hard, close. See also board on boardboard12d....
7. aboiteau, v. View full entry 1899
...trans. To provide (a river) with a dyke containing an aboiteau....
8. abolitionize, v. View full entry 1836
...trans. To imbue with the principles of abolitionism; to make (a person or community) opposed to slavery....
9. aborn, v. View full entry 1856
...intr. Only in present participle. To be born or produced. Freq. in to die aborning....
10. aborning, adj. View full entry 1943
...That is in the process of being born or created....
11. abortee, n. View full entry 1912
...A woman who undergoes an induced abortion....
12. abortuary, n. View full entry 1983
...In the language of anti-abortion campaigners: a clinic in which abortions are performed....
13. about, adv., prep.1, adj., and int. View full entry eOE
...In rotation or revolution; round in a circular course. Now rare except in fig. use with verbs....
14. abouts, adv. and prep. View full entry a1387
...= about (in various senses). Cf. nearabouts...
15. above bounden, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1550
...Of a person: that is under a legal obligation set out previously in the present document. Also as ...
16. absentee, n. and adj. View full entry 1537
...A landowner who resides abroad or at a distance from his or her estate; (formerly also) a clergyman who is habitually absent from his parish. Also more generally: a person who is...
17. absotively, adv. View full entry 1914
...Emphatically; without a doubt, irrefutably. Also used as an emphatic affirmative: yes, certainly, definitely. Freq. paired with posilutely...
18. absquatulate, v. View full entry 1830
...intr. To abscond, make off. Also occas. trans. with it....
19. absquatulation, n. View full entry 1839
...The action of absquatulate; absconding, making-off....
20. † absquatulize, v. View full entry 1829
...intr. and trans. = absquatulate...
