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1. abysmus, n. View full entry 1611
...An abysm or abyss....
2. accelerator, n. View full entry 1611
...gen. A person who or thing which accelerates something (in speed, rate, amount, or extent, or in time)....
3. accumulator, n. View full entry 1611
...A person who accumulates things, esp. wealth or possessions; an acquisitive person....
4. acquaintant, n. View full entry 1611
...= acquaintance2b....
5. acquitter, n. View full entry 1611
...A person who acquits, esp. one who declares a person not guilty of a crime or accusation....
6. adjuror, n. View full entry 1611
...= adjurer...
7. admiraless, n. View full entry 1611
...The wife of an admiral. Also: a female admiral....
8. adulterator, n. View full entry 1611
...A person who adulterates or debases by contamination; spec. one who makes something poorer in quality or unusable for its original purpose by adding another substance....
9. † advesture, n. View full entry 1611
...The action or an act of investing or clothing....
10. † affranchising, n. View full entry 1611
...The action of affranchise; affranchisement....
11. agriot, n. View full entry 1611
...The sour fruit of a Eurasian cherry, prob. a variety of the morello cherry, Prunus cerasus. Also: the wood of this tree or that of the related Eurasian wild cherry,...
12. amputation, n. View full entry 1611
...gen. A cutting or lopping off, as of branches of trees in pruning; also, the cut end. Obs. exc. as fig. use of 2....
13. amusement, n. View full entry 1611
...Musing, mental abstraction, reverie. Obs....
14. annalist, n. View full entry 1611
...A writer of annals, a chronicler of events year by year....
15. annexation, n. View full entry 1611
...The action or process of joining to or uniting:...
16. annexing, n. View full entry 1611
...The action of joining or attaching; annexation. (Now mostly gerundial.)...
17. announcer, n. View full entry 1611
...One who announces, tells news, or gives notice....
18. apophysis, n. View full entry 1611
...Physiol. A natural protuberance or process, arising from, and forming a continuous part of, a bone; esp. one of the processes on the spinal vertebræ....
19. aˈpothecaryship, n. View full entry 1611
...The practice of an apothecary....
20. appalment, n. View full entry 1611
...The action of overwhelming with dismay; the state of dismay or consternation....