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1. abate, v.1 View full entry c1300
...trans. To put an end to (a condition, state of affairs, etc.). Obs....
2. † abate, v.3 View full entry a1475
...intr. Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to beat or flap the wings, to flutter. Cf. bate...
3. abature, n. View full entry 1575
...Chiefly in pl. The traces left by a stag in the undergrowth through which it has passed. Also fig. and in figurative contexts....
4. † abay, n. View full entry c1330
...The barking or baying of hounds at a hunted animal, esp. when they have driven it into a position from which it is unable to flee further but must turn and face...
5. abet, v. View full entry c1380
...trans....
6. abetment, n. View full entry c1380
...Chiefly Law. The action or fact of encouraging, instigating, or assisting in a crime or other misdeed....
7. aboard, adv. and prep. View full entry a1393
...Alongside, on one side (of a ship or a shore). Freq. modified by hard, close. See also board on boardboard12d....
8. abondance, n. View full entry 1888
...A call undertaking to take nine or more tricks in solo whist. Cf. abundance4....
9. abseil, n. View full entry 1923
...A descent made by abseiling....
10. abseil, v. View full entry 1908
...intr. To descend a rock face or other near-vertical surface using a rope fixed at a higher point and coiled round the body or passed through a descendeur, the speed of...
11. abundance, n. and adv. View full entry 1340
...An overflowing quantity or amount (of something); a large quantity; plenty....
12. accelerator, n. View full entry 1611
...gen. A person who or thing which accelerates something (in speed, rate, amount, or extent, or in time)....
13. acceptance, n. View full entry 1528-30
...Law. An agreement to abide by the act or contract of another, such as a predecessor in an office, by some act which amounts to a recognition or approval of it,...
14. acceptor, n. View full entry c1384
...= accepter of persons (also faces)accepter2....
15. accipiter, n. View full entry a1398
...Originally (chiefly Falconry): a bird of prey, esp. a hawk. In later use spec. (in Ornithol.): a hawk of the genus Accipiter...
16. accipitrary, n. View full entry 1633
...A person who keeps and trains hawks or falcons; a falconer....
17. † accloy, v. View full entry c1330
...trans....
18. accost, v. View full entry 1567
...trans....
19. 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....
20. account, v. View full entry c1300
...trans. To present an account or reckoning of (one's actions, etc.); to answer for, to explain or justify. Also intr. with of. Cf. sense 3b....
