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1. abalone, n. View full entry 1850
...An edible gastropod mollusc of the genus Haliotis, typically found in warm seas, having a shallow ear-shaped shell lined with mother-of-pearl and pierced with a line of respiratory holes; an...
2. † abluvion, n. View full entry 1805
...The action or process of washing off or away; that which is washed off or away....
3. aboiteau, n. View full entry 1802
...Esp. in the Maritime Provinces of Canada: a sluice gate in a dyke, which allows water draining from the land to flow out but does not allow sea water to enter. Also:...
4. aboiteau, v. View full entry 1899
...trans. To provide (a river) with a dyke containing an aboiteau....
5. abolitionize, v. View full entry 1836
...trans. To imbue with the principles of abolitionism; to make (a person or community) opposed to slavery....
6. aborn, v. View full entry 1856
...intr. Only in present participle. To be born or produced. Freq. in to die aborning....
7. absquatulate, v. View full entry 1830
...intr. To abscond, make off. Also occas. trans. with it....
8. absquatulation, n. View full entry 1839
...The action of absquatulate; absconding, making-off....
9. † absquatulize, v. View full entry 1829
...intr. and trans. = absquatulate...
10. abstractionist, n. and adj. View full entry 1832
...A person who prefers to view, analyse, and discuss the world in abstract rather than practical terms; a thinker who gives precedence to abstract ideas and concepts over concrete and particular ones....
11. accession, v. View full entry 1887
...trans. To record as a new accession to the collection of a library, museum, etc. Cf. accession1bde-accession...
12. accessioning, n. View full entry 1885
...The recording of accessions to a library, museum, etc. Cf. de-accessioningde-accession....
13. acclimated, adj. View full entry 1822
...Habituated to a new climate or environment; (esp. in fig. contexts) accustomed to new conditions. Now sometimes spec.: habituated physiologically or behaviourally to a change in a single...
14. acclimating, n. View full entry 1805
...= acclimatization (in various senses). Cf. acclimatizing...
15. acclimation, n. View full entry 1801
...The process or result of acclimating or of being acclimated to a new climate or environment....
16. accordion, n. View full entry 1830
...A portable musical instrument played by stretching and squeezing a central bellows to blow air over metal reeds, the melody being sounded by buttons or a keyboard on one side of the...
17. accordion, v. View full entry 1897
...trans. To cause (a thing) to fold, collapse, etc., in a manner suggestive of an accordion's bellows. Cf. concertina...
18. accreditation, n. View full entry 1806
...The action of accrediting; the fact of being accredited; recommendation to credit or (esp. with reference to diplomats and journalists) to official recognition....
19. accrediting, adj. View full entry 1822
...Of a bank, etc.: that provides or enables the provision of credit....
20. accultural, adj. View full entry 1890
...Involving or produced by acculturation....
