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1. Adamically, adv. View full entry 1860
...In a way resembling Adam in appearance or behaviour....
2. airily, adv. View full entry 1687
...With a nonchalant, detached, or superior air; dismissively; casually, blithely....
3. à la mode, adv., adj., n., and prep. View full entry 1637
...In accordance with the fashion; in a modish manner; fashionably....
4. alarm, int., n., and adv. View full entry c1400
...Used as a call to arms or warning of imminent danger, esp. of being attacked. Now literary (chiefly arch. and hist.)....
5. all along, adv. and adj. View full entry c1450
...All the time, from the beginning, throughout; continuously, without interruption. Cf. right alongright5....
6. altogether, adj., n., and adv. View full entry eOE
...Modifying the object or complement of a clause, indicating that the whole of what it refers to is involved: all of (something); constituting or representing the entirety of (a place, group, etc.);...
7. au naturel, adv. View full entry 1817
...In the natural state; cooked plainly; uncooked; undressed....
8. ˈbang-up, adj., adv., and n. View full entry 1810
...Quite up to the mark, stylish, in the pink of fashion. See also quot. 1811....
9. † ˈbarberly, adv. View full entry 1573
...With a barber's methods, by shaving....
10. bare, adj., adv., and n. View full entry c885
...Of the body or its parts: Unclothed, naked, nude....
11. barefoot, adj. and adv. View full entry c1000
...With the feet bare or naked, without shoes or stockings on:...
12. ˈbarehanded, adj. and adv. View full entry c1440
...Having nothing in or covering the hands, esp. carrying no weapon....
13. behind, adv., prep., and n. View full entry c900
...In a place whence those to whom the reference is made have departed; remaining after the others have gone. Esp. used with leave3a (letobs.), remain...
14. † ˈbelef | ˈbelif, adv. View full entry c1400
...In advb. phr. a belef: obliquely, aslant; scarf-wise....
15. best, adj. and adv. View full entry c888
...Of the highest excellence, excelling all others in quality....
16. between, prep., adv., and n. View full entry c890
...The proper word expressing the local relation of a point to two other points in opposite directions from it (i.e. if a point has two other points on opposite sides of it,...
17. bias, adj., n., and adv. View full entry 1530
...Slanting, oblique. bias line...
18. biblioˈpegically, adv. View full entry 1896
...As regards bookbinding....
19. big, adj. and adv. View full entry c1300
...Of a person or animal: strong, sturdy, mighty; stout-hearted, courageous. Cf. rich1. Obs....
20. bloody, adj., n., and adv. View full entry eOE
...Containing blood; composed or consisting of blood; resembling blood. Also in figurative contexts....
