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1. a-, prefix3 View full entry 1673
...(No longer productive.) Forming verbs, adverbs, and prepositions, originally with the senses ‘on’, ‘on to’....
2. Aaron's rod, n. View full entry 1631
...In similative and allusive use: a powerful force which devours or overwhelms everything around it....
3. † abackstays, adv. View full entry 1630
...In line with the direction of the wind; with sails positioned in this way, thus presenting no surface to the wind....
4. abandonable, adj. View full entry 1611
...Capable of being abandoned....
5. abasing, adj. View full entry 1615
...That abases; humbling, humiliating....
6. † abastardized, adj. View full entry 1653
...Degenerate, corrupt; bastardized. Cf. abastardize...
7. † abasure, n. View full entry 1647
...The action or an act of abasing; the condition of being abased; humiliation....
8. † abater, n.2 View full entry 1653
...An abating, an abatement....
9. abating, adj. View full entry 1662
...That abates (in various senses of abate); esp. that decreases or subsides....
10. † abating, prep. View full entry 1631
...If one excepts; with the exception of; except for. Cf. abate11....
11. abbot-general, n. View full entry 1607
...An abbot who is head of a congregation consisting of several associated monasteries. Cf. archabbotarchabbey....
12. † abbreviarist, n. View full entry 1679
...A person who makes an abridgement or compendium; = abbreviator1. Cf. breviarist...
13. † ABC, v. View full entry 1611
...intr. To say the alphabet, or letters of the alphabet....
14. abdicated, adj. View full entry a1675
...That has formally renounced an office or position; cf. abdicate3a. Also: that has been deposed from an office or position; cf. abdicate4. Used esp. of a...
15. abdicating, n. View full entry 1668
...The action of abdicate (in various senses); abdication. Also: an instance of this....
16. Aberginian, n. View full entry 1634
...A member of a North American Indian people inhabiting an area north of Massachusetts Bay....
17. aberrance, n. View full entry 1661
...A diversion or departure from a recognized course, standard, or norm; an aberration....
18. aberrancy, n. View full entry 1646
...A diversion or departure from a recognized course, standard, or norm; an aberration. Also: the quality or condition of being aberrant; deviation, abnormality....
19. abidable, adj. View full entry 1611
...Capable of being borne or endured....
20. abidance, n. View full entry 1607
...Abiding; dwelling, stay; continuance....
