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1. account, n. View full entry c1300
...Counting, reckoning, enumeration; computation, calculation; (also) a style or mode of reckoning; an amount established by counting. Now chiefly in money of account: see money2....
2. acquiescement, n. View full entry 1721
...= acquiescence...
3. acquiescency, n. View full entry 1646
...= acquiescence (in various senses)....
4. adaption, n. View full entry 1615
...= adaptation (in various senses)....
5. afters, n. View full entry 1909
...The sweet course following the main course of a meal; pudding, dessert. Also with sing. concord. Cf. second8....
6. all, adj., pron., and n., adv., and conj. View full entry eOE
...With singular noun. The whole amount, quantity, extent, or compass of; the whole of....
7. altogether, adj., n., and adv. View full entry eOE
...Modifying the object or complement of a clause, indicating that the whole of what it refers to is involved: all of (something); constituting or representing the entirety of (a place, group, etc.);...
8. an, conj. and n. View full entry ?a1160
...Now usu. in form an'. = andI. (coordinating). Now regional and nonstandard....
9. and, conj.1, adv., and n.1 View full entry eOE
...Simply connective....
10. aquiculture, n. View full entry 1867
...Culture of the natural produce of water; fish-breeding as a branch of industry. Cf. aquaculture...
11. assoilment, n. View full entry 1611
...The action or condition of absolution from sin, guilt, censure, or accusation....
12. averruncation, n. View full entry 1656
...prop. The warding off or averting (of evils)....
13. bad, adj., n.2, and adv. View full entry 1203
...Of poor quality or little worth....
14. bank, n.2 View full entry 1275
...A long seat for several to sit on, a bench, or form; a platform or stage to speak from. Obs. (Cf. mountebank)...
15. Boloism, n. View full entry 1917
...Nefarious anti-patriotic activities resembling those of Paul Bolo; esp. the engineering of underground pacifist propaganda in favour of an enemy country. Also erron., Bolshevism....
16. bourne | bourn, n.2 View full entry 1523
...A boundary (between fields, etc.). Obs....
17. brock, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A badger: a name, in later times, associated especially with the epithet stinking....
18. ˌcamiˈsado, n. View full entry 1548
...A night attack; originally one in which the attacking party wore shirts over their armour as a means of mutual recognition. (A very common word in 16–17th c.)...
19. chivalry, n. View full entry 1297
...collect. Knights or horsemen equipped for battle....
20. cocoa, n. View full entry 1672
...The seed of Theobroma Cacao, a tropical American tree: more correctly called cacaoObs. Formerly commonly called cocoa-nut, and now often cocoa-bean....