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1. Aaron's rod, n. View full entry 1631
...In similative and allusive use: a powerful force which devours or overwhelms everything around it....
2. accommodation, n. View full entry 1566
...Adaptation; the process of being adapted....
3. accredited, adj. View full entry 1738
...Provided with credentials, publicly or officially recognized. Cf. well-accredited...
4. acorning, n. View full entry 1818
...The action of looking for, feeding on, or gathering acorns....
5. acreman, n. View full entry OE
...A cultivator of the ground, a farmer; a ploughman; spec. †a manorial tenant; (Sc.) a person who rents a piece of ground of a Scottish acre or more....
6. actinobacillosis, n. View full entry 1903
...Disease of cattle, other livestock, and occasionally humans caused by infection with bacteria of the genus Actinobacillus, typically characterized by suppurating nodules like those of actinomycosis but also seen as...
7. actinomycosis, n. View full entry 1877
...Disease caused by bacteria of the genus Actinomyces in cattle, other animals, or humans, typically characterized by the formation of nodular suppurating abscesses, most commonly in the region of the...
8. Adam's Needle, n. View full entry 1730
...Any of several yucca plants with narrow sharp-pointed leaves, esp. (in early use) Yucca gloriosa, and (now more usually) Y. filamentosa, both native to eastern North...
9. adder's grass, n. View full entry c1450
...Any of several plants thought to resemble a snake in some way, or used to treat snakebites; esp. adder's tongue, genus Ophioglossum, and †bistort, Persicaria bistorta...
10. adder's tongue, n. View full entry a1425
...Any of various plants used medicinally in the treatment of snakebites, or thought to resemble a snake's tongue in some way....
11. advance, n. and adj. View full entry a1400
...The action of extolling or lauding something; ostentation, boasting. Cf. advancement2. Obs....
12. aerator, n. View full entry 1852
...Something that supplies or introduces air or gas; spec.a device that forces gas into liquids;a tool for aerating turf....
13. aeroponic, adj. View full entry 1969
...Relating to or involving aeroponics....
14. aeroponics, n. View full entry 1957
...With sing. concord. A method of cultivating plants in which the roots are allowed to hang in the air, and nutrient solution is delivered to them in the form of...
15. afforestable, adj. View full entry 1887
...Of land: capable of being converted into forest or woodland....
16. afield, adv. View full entry OE
...On or in a field; spec.out in the fields; engaged in agricultural labour;out in the countryside; engaged in an outdoor pursuit such as hunting, fishing, hiking, camping, etc.;on...
17. aflatoxin, n. View full entry 1962
...Any of a group of toxic pentacyclic lactones that are produced as metabolites by certain fungi, esp. of the genus Aspergillus, which are found as contaminants in stored peanuts and...
18. after-, prefix View full entry eOE
...Combinations in which after- is adjectival or adverbial, and indicates that the second element refers to something that comes behind or afterwards, or an action that is performed later....
19. after-crop, n. View full entry 1562
...A second crop harvested, esp. in a single season or year. Also fig.: something extra or additional....
20. † after-crop, v. View full entry 1573
...intr. To sow or harvest an after-crop. Also trans.: to sow (ground) with an after-crop....
