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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. 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....
3. account, v. View full entry c1300
...trans. To present an account or reckoning of (one's actions, etc.); to answer for, to explain or justify. Also intr. with of. Cf. sense 3b....
4. ace, n.1 and adj. (and int.) View full entry ?a1300
...A single point in a game, and related uses....
5. acker, n.2 View full entry 1937
...A piastre. hist. in later use....
6. act, n. View full entry a1382
...In pl., with capital initial, and freq. with the. More fully Acts of the Apostles. (The name of) one of the books of the New Testament...
7. action, n. View full entry a1393
...Something done or performed, a deed, an act; (in pl.) habitual or ordinary deeds, conduct....
8. actual, adj. and n. View full entry c1350
...Chiefly Theol. Characteristic of or relating to acts or action; exhibited in or arising from deeds; practical, active. Now chiefly in actual grace and actual sin....
9. age, n. View full entry c1275
...A naturally distinct section of a person's or animal's existence; a particular period or stage of life. Often with defining word or phrase specifying the stage....
10. agency, n. View full entry 1600
...The process of acting as an agent (agent2); the position, role, or function of an agent, deputy, or representative; an instance of this. Now somewhat rare....
11. aid, n. View full entry 1419
...A levy or subsidy paid to the Crown to defray military or other extraordinary expenses. Now chiefly hist....
12. 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....
13. all right, adv., adj., int., and n. View full entry a1413
...Used as an intensifier at the end of a sentence or clause: certainly, indeed....
14. alpha, n. and adj. View full entry ?c1200
...(The name of) the first letter (Α, α) of the Greek alphabet, corresponding to English a....
15. Amex, n.1 View full entry 1961
...The American Stock Exchange in New York, the second largest U.S. securities exchange (the largest being the New York Stock Exchange)....
16. amount, n. View full entry 1710
...The sum total to which anything mounts up or reaches:...
17. angel, n. View full entry c950
...A ministering spirit or divine messenger; one of an order of spiritual beings superior to man in power and intelligence, who, according to the Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and other theologies, are the...
18. angel, v. View full entry 1929
...trans. To finance or back (an enterprise, esp. a theatrical production). slang (chiefly U.S.)....
19. ape, n. View full entry a700
...An animal of the monkey tribe (Simiadæ); before the introduction of ‘monkey’ (16th c.), the generic name, and still (since 1700) sometimes so used poetically or rhetorically, or...
20. apple, n. View full entry eOE
...The round firm fruit (a pome) of any of various wild and cultivated trees of the genus Malus (see sense 4a), occurring in a wide variety of forms,...
