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1. abased, adj. View full entry 1554
...Made lower in rank, condition, or character; humbled, humiliated, degraded....
2. abatement, n.2 View full entry 1421
...The result of abating or lessening (in various senses of abateII.); the amount by which something is abated; a reduction, deduction, decrease....
3. accolled, adj. View full entry 1612
...Heraldry. Intertwined; entwined, wreathed....
4. accompaniment, n. View full entry 1697
...Music....
5. accosted, adj. and n. View full entry 1632
...Heraldry. Of a charge: flanked by other charges; spec. = cotisedcotise. Obs....
6. accrued, adj. View full entry 1656
...Accumulated or increased by growth; (esp. of interest, leave) built up over time....
7. acorned, adj. View full entry 1610
...Provided or decorated with acorns; bearing acorns. In early use chiefly Heraldry....
8. addorsed, adj. View full entry 1572
...Of two emblems: facing back to back on a shield; (of a shield) characterized by such a design. Freq. as postmodifier....
9. affronted, adj. View full entry ?1488
...Impudent, shameless; = effrontedObs....
10. anchored, adj. View full entry 1611
...With the anchor let down to the ground....
11. annulated, adj. View full entry 1668
...‘That weareth rings, ringed.’ Blount Glossogr....
12. armed, adj.1 View full entry 1297
...lit. Furnished with arms or armour; fully equipped for war. In intensive ‘Armed to the teeth.’ In armed demonstration, armed neutrality, it refers to the...
13. arming, n.2 View full entry c1386
...The action or process of furnishing (oneself or others) with arms or armour; †concr. arms, armour (obs.)....
14. armorial, adj. and n. View full entry a1608
...Pertaining to heraldic arms....
15. armoried, adj. View full entry 1866
...Decked with armorial bearings or escutcheons....
16. armorist, n. View full entry 1586
...One who is skilled in heraldry, or in blazoning coats of arms....
17. aspersed, adj. View full entry 1655
...Besprinkled; spec. in Heraldry strewed or powdered with a number of small charges, such as fleur-de-lis....
18. assessed, adj. View full entry 1552
...Fixed or apportioned by assessment. assessed taxes...
19. attire, n. View full entry 1250
...Equipment of man or horse, outfit for war....
20. attired, adj. View full entry 1330
...Equipped, furnished, fitted out, prepared. Obs....
