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1. à la mode, adv., adj., n., and prep. View full entry 1637
...In accordance with the fashion; in a modish manner; fashionably....
2. 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...
3. 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,...
4. en, prep. View full entry a1684
...See also en bloc, en masse, en passant, en plein, en tout cas...
5. fore, adv. and prep. View full entry c900
...Before, at some earlier time, previously. Also of fore....
6. in, prep.2 View full entry a1387
...in abˈsentia, in (his, her, or their) absence....
7. minus, prep., n., adv., and adj. View full entry 1483
...Placed between two expressions of number or quantity: made less or reduced by; with the subtraction of (the second number or quantity from the first)....
8. off, adv., prep., n.1, and adj. View full entry eOE
...Expressing motion or direction from a place: to a distance, away, quite away; as in to go off, run off, drive off. to be off...
9. out of, prep. View full entry eOE
...From inside (a containing space or thing)....
10. outside, n., adj., prep., and adv. View full entry 1457
...The position or area adjacent to and beyond the outer side or surface of something. Now chiefly in from (also on, to) the outside....
11. sans, prep. View full entry c1300
...Without. Now arch. (chiefly with reminiscence of Shakespeare), joc., and Heraldry....
12. through, prep. and adv. View full entry a700
...From one end, side, or surface to the other or opposite end, side, or surface of (a body or a space) by passing within it; usually implying into, at one end, side,...
13. underˈneath, prep., adv., adj., and n. View full entry c893
...Beneath or below (in local position)....
14. up and down, adv., prep., adj., and n. View full entry a1200
...Alternately on or to a higher and a lower level or plane. Also in fig. context....
15. † upsy, prep. View full entry 1590
...upsy Friese...
16. vis-à-vis, n., prep., and adv. View full entry 1753
...A light carriage for two persons sitting face-to-face. Obs. exc. Hist....
