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1. 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....
2. abstract, adj. and n. View full entry a1398
...Of a word: denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object. Freq. in abstract noun. Opposed to concrete....
3. abyss, n. View full entry a1398
...The primal formless chaos out of which the earth and the heavens were created....
4. accident, n. View full entry 1395
...Philos. In Aristotelian thought: a property or quality not essential to a substance or object; something that does not constitute an essential component, an attribute. Cf. substance4a....
5. accollé, adj. View full entry 1664
...Entwined, wreathed; (spec. of a heraldic animal) wreathed about the neck, collared, gorged. Cf. accolled1, 2. Now rare....
6. achievement, n. View full entry 1477
...The action of achieving something; completion, accomplishment, successful execution....
7. addition, n. View full entry c1400
...Something which is added or joined to another thing; an appendix, an augmentation; (also) a person who becomes part of a family or other group of people....
8. adossé, adj. View full entry 1710
...= addorsed...
9. adumbration, n. View full entry 1531
...Shading, shadowing; shade, obscuration; (also) a shadow....
10. affrontee, adj. View full entry 1718
...orig. Heraldry. Of two figures in a design: facing each other. Cf. affronted3, confronté Now rare....
11. † afgod, n. View full entry 1769
...An idol, a heathen god. Also: a heraldic dragon associated with such an idol or god....
12. alerion, n. View full entry a1500
...A bird believed to have no feet. Obs....
13. alicorn, n. View full entry 1678
...A (mythical) animal supposedly resembling a bull with wavy horns, sometimes used as a heraldic device....
14. † aliet, n. View full entry a1398
...A bird of prey; esp. (in Wyclif) an osprey or a sea eagle; (Heraldry) a merlin or a sparrowhawk....
15. allusive, adj. View full entry 1593
...Symbolic, metaphorical, figurative. Obs....
16. amethyst, n. View full entry c1290
...A precious stone of a clear purple or bluish violet colour, of different degrees of intensity, consisting of quartz or rock-crystal coloured by manganese, or, according to Heintz, by a compound of...
17. animé, adj. View full entry 1730
...Of a heraldic animal: having eyes of a different colour from the animal itself (indicating readiness to fight). Cf. incensed3....
18. annulet, n. View full entry 1572
...A little ring....
19. appaumé, adj. View full entry 1864
...Having the hand opened out so as to display the palm....
