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1. abuilding, adj. View full entry 1534
...In the process of being built or building. Also fig. in later use. Only in predicative use....
2. acanthus, n. View full entry 1551
...Bot. In early use: the Mediterranean plant Acanthus spinosus, the spiny leaves of which (or representations of them) are used decoratively (see sense 2). In later use...
3. acme, n. View full entry a1568
...The highest point or culmination; the point or period at which something is at its best or most highly developed; (in later use also) a person or thing representing or embodying this....
4. advertiser, n. View full entry 1548
...A person who informs, notifies, or warns. Obs. (arch. in later use)....
5. adyt, n. View full entry 1584
...The innermost or most sacred part of a temple or other place of worship; = adytum Chiefly fig. in later use....
6. † aire, n.2 View full entry 1581
...An altar....
7. aisled, adj. View full entry a1552
...Esp. of a church: having an aisle or aisles. Sometimes with preceding modifying word indicating the number or type of aisles....
8. alligator, n.2 View full entry 1591
...Any of various broad-snouted crocodilians constituting the family Alligatoridae, found chiefly in the New World and including the caimans; (now) spec. either of two members of the genus...
9. alloy, n. View full entry 1593
...The comparative purity of gold or silver; fineness. Cf. allay1a....
10. altar-wise, adv. View full entry 1560
...After the manner of an altar, like an altar; spec. in the position of an altar in a church. Cf. altar-ways...
11. analytical, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1528
...Chiefly Philos. = analytic1....
12. annular, adj. View full entry ?a1560
...Of or pertaining to a ring or rings; ring-like, ring-formed, ringed. annular space...
13. annulet, n. View full entry 1572
...A little ring....
14. antic, adj. and n. View full entry 1529
...Archit. and Decorative Art. Grotesque, in composition or shape; grouped or figured with fantastic incongruity; bizarre....
15. antique, adj. and n. View full entry 1530
...Belonging to former times, ancient, olden. (Now generally rhetorical = of the ‘good old times.’)...
16. apophyge, n. View full entry 1563
...The part of a column where it springs out of its base, or joins its capital, usually moulded into a concave sweep or cavetto....
17. aqueduct, n. View full entry a1552
...An artificial channel for the conveyance of water from place to place; a conduit; esp. an elevated structure of masonry used for this purpose....
18. architect, n. View full entry 1563
...A master-builder. spec. A skilled professor of the art of building, whose business it is to prepare the plans of edifices, and exercise a general superintendence over the course of...
19. ˌarchitecˈtonical, adj. View full entry 1595
...= architectonic12. ? Obs....
20. architecture, n. View full entry 1563
...The art or science of building or constructing edifices of any kind for human use....
