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1. abbreviature, n. View full entry 1578
...An abbreviated or condensed form of a text, treatment of a subject, etc.; a brief account; an abridgement; a summary. Also fig.: a representation or embodiment of something in miniature;...
2. absentee, n. and adj. View full entry 1537
...A landowner who resides abroad or at a distance from his or her estate; (formerly also) a clergyman who is habitually absent from his parish. Also more generally: a person who is...
3. adjudgment, n. View full entry 1547
...The action of adjudge; adjudication. Also: an instance of this; a judgement....
4. adulterating, n. View full entry 1581
...The action or an act of corrupting or debasing something by admixture; the result of this; = adulteration...
5. affile, v.2 View full entry 1512
...trans. (chiefly in pass.). To file (a document, case, claim, etc.), esp. in a specified place or with a specified body....
6. † alluminor, n. View full entry ?1533
...An illuminator of manuscripts; a limner....
7. anil, n. View full entry 1581
...The Indigo shrub; the native name of the E. Indian species (Indigofera tinctoria); but in Bot. the trivial name of the W. Indian Indigo (I. anil)....
8. annates, n. View full entry 1534
...The first-fruits, or entire revenue of one year, paid to the Pope by bishops and other ecclesiastics of the R.C. Church on their appointment to a see or benefice. ...
9. approving, n. View full entry 1523-4
...The action of testing, proving; or confirming, sanctioning; approbation; probate....
10. attorney-general, n. View full entry 1533-4
...gen. A legal representative or deputy acting under a general commission or ‘power’ of attorney, and representing his principal in all legal matters: opposed to attorney special or ...
11. ˈauthorizing, n. View full entry 1523-4
...The giving of authority; sanctioning....
12. aˈvailably, adv. View full entry 1530-1
...Effectively, serviceably, advantageously. Obs....
13. averrable, adj. View full entry 1562-3
...Capable of being verified or proved true. Obs....
14. avowant, n. View full entry 1529
...In Law, A challenger; a person making cognizance, or admitting that he distrained goods belonging to another, but maintaining his right to do so....
15. bailable, adj.2 View full entry 1554
...Of persons: Entitled to be released on bail....
16. † ˈbailiffwick, n. View full entry 1509
...The district under the jurisdiction of a bailiff....
17. ˈbailing, n.1 View full entry 1542-3
...A releasing on bail....
18. bailment, n. View full entry 1554
...Delivery, handing over, or giving for a specific purpose; according to Blackstone, delivery in trust, upon a contract expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of...
19. † ˈbandon, v.2 View full entry 1552
...Of cloth: To shrink unevenly, so that tight inelastic ‘bands’ occur here and there across the piece....
20. bandy, adj. View full entry 1552
...Of legs: Curved laterally with the concavity inward. perhaps attrib. use of bandy ‘hockey-stick.’ Also used briefly for bandy-legged....