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1. accessive, adj.2 View full entry 1583
...= excessive2b....
2. accidently, adv. View full entry ?a1425
...In an accidental or chance manner; accidentally, by chance (contextually: by mischance). (In modern use only as an occasional spelling variant of accidentally)...
3. according, adj. and adv. View full entry c1300
...With to. Corresponding to something; agreeing, matching. Obs....
4. account, n. View full entry c1300
...Counting, reckoning, enumeration; computation, calculation; (also) a style or mode of reckoning; an amount established by counting. Now chiefly in money of account: see money2....
5. acquiescement, n. View full entry 1721
...= acquiescence...
6. acquiescency, n. View full entry 1646
...= acquiescence (in various senses)....
7. acrost, prep. and adv. View full entry 1759
...= across...
8. adaption, n. View full entry 1615
...= adaptation (in various senses)....
9. adjourning, adj. View full entry 1661
...That adjourns (in various senses of the verb); characterized by or involving adjournment....
10. afear, adj. and conj. View full entry c1410
...= afeared...
11. afeared, adj. View full entry OE
...In a state of fear or apprehension; afraid, scared; moved or influenced by fear....
12. afters, n. View full entry 1909
...The sweet course following the main course of a meal; pudding, dessert. Also with sing. concord. Cf. second8....
13. aghasted, adj. View full entry a1425
...In early use: †frightened, terrified (cf. agast) (obs.). Later: filled with shock or horror; made aghast. Cf. aghast...
14. ahind, prep. and adv. View full entry 1753
...= behind (in various senses)....
15. all, adj., pron., and n., adv., and conj. View full entry eOE
...With singular noun. The whole amount, quantity, extent, or compass of; the whole of....
16. 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.);...
17. an, conj. and n. View full entry ?a1160
...Now usu. in form an'. = andI. (coordinating). Now regional and nonstandard....
18. anagogical, adj. View full entry 1528
...Of words and their sense: mystical, spiritual, having a secondary spiritual sense, allegorical....
19. and, conj.1, adv., and n.1 View full entry eOE
...Simply connective....
20. † anteˈgenital, adj. View full entry ?a1656
...Previous to birth: (erron. ‘Born before, elder born.’ Blount Glossogr.1656.)...
