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1. abstinence, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The practice or discipline of resisting self-indulgence; self-restraint....
2. Acapulco, n. View full entry 1965
...In full Acapulco gold. A variety of marijuana grown in the Acapulco region (see quot. 1965)....
3. acid, adj. and n. View full entry 1626
...In general use: sour, tart, sharp to the taste; tasting like vinegar....
4. acid house, n. View full entry 1988
...A type of house music popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s, characterized by a fast beat, a spare, hypnotic, synthesized sound, and a distinctive gurgling bass noise. Also: the lifestyle...
5. ad, n.5 View full entry 1938
...A drug addict....
6. addict, n. View full entry 1899
...A person affected by an addiction to a drug or other psychoactive substance. Freq. with distinguishing word denoting the addictive substance....
7. addicted, adj. and n. View full entry 1535
...Devoted or attached to a person, party, or cause; spec. †bound as, or as if, a servant (obs.). (In later use merging with sense A. 2.)...
8. addictedness, n. View full entry 1641
...The quality, state, or condition of being addicted; devotion, adherence, attachment, esp. of a compulsive kind; (also) an instance of this. Freq. with to. Cf. addiction...
9. addiction, n. View full entry ?1532
...The state or condition of being dedicated or devoted to a thing, esp. an activity or occupation; adherence or attachment, esp. of an immoderate or compulsive kind....
10. addictiveness, n. View full entry 1827
...The state or quality of being addictive; addictedness, addiction; an instance of this. Freq. with to....
11. afion, n. View full entry 1542
...Opium, esp. in a raw liquid form....
12. akathisia, n. View full entry 1903
...Inability to sit down or to remain seated, resulting from a subjective need or desire to move, frequently accompanied by sensations of muscular twitching, and often occurring as a side effect of...
13. alkaloid, n. and adj. View full entry 1824
...A naturally occurring organic compound having alkaline or basic properties; (now chiefly) spec. any of a numerous class of complex nitrogenous compounds of plant origin having marked physiological, sometimes toxic,...
14. 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...
15. amanitine, n. View full entry 1847
...The active narcotic principle of poisonous fungi....
16. amphetamine, n. View full entry 1938
...A synthetic drug which stimulates the heart and respiration, constricts blood vessels, and induces sleeplessness....
17. amyl, n.2 View full entry 1850
...The monatomic alcohol radical of the pentacarbon series C5H11, also called pentyl or quintyl....
18. 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...
19. bad, adj., n.2, and adv. View full entry 1203
...Of poor quality or little worth....
20. bag, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A receptacle made of some flexible material closed in on all sides except at the top (where also it generally can be closed); a pouch, a small sack....
