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1. acuti-, comb. form View full entry ?a1560
...Forming adjectives denoting things having acute angles....
2. Anglo-, comb. form View full entry 1584
...Forming compounds relating to England (or more broadly to Britain: cf. etymological note at England), or to the English (or British)....
3. argyr- | argyro-, comb. form View full entry 1599
...repr. Greek ἀργυρο- comb. form of ἄργυρ-ος silver. In numerous technical words....
4. bi-, comb. form View full entry 1572
...Adjectives, with the sense:—...
5. bitter-, comb. form View full entry 1551
...Adverbial and parasynthetic....
6. blow-, comb. form View full entry 1530
...With adverbs, denoting actions; as See also blow-out, blow-up...
7. catch-, comb. form View full entry 1592
...With ns., etc., in objective relation. (The resulting combination is a , but capable also of being used attrib. or as )...
8. chill-, comb. form View full entry 1567
...completely chilled, thoroughly cold; also as , chill coldness....
9. choke-, comb. form View full entry 1556
...in attributive relation to a n. = ‘choking, that chokes’....
10. chuff-, comb. form View full entry 1563
...chuff-catObs.chuff-headedObs.chuff-pennyObs....
11. clero-, comb. form View full entry 1599
...combining form of Latin clēr-us, Greek κλῆρος, in its late sense ‘clergy’, as in cleroˈlaicalObs.cleroˈmasticObs....
12. comico-, comb. form View full entry 1577
...combining form of Latin cōmic-us, Greek κωμικ-ός, as in comico-cynical, comico-didactic, comico-prosaic, comico-tragedy, comico-tragic, comico-tragical (cf....
13. cubi-, comb. form View full entry 1557
...combining form of Latin cubuscube, used in some mathematical terms, as cubi-cubicObs.; in mod. use denoting ‘of the third degree, cubic’, as cubi-cone, ...
14. decem-, comb. form View full entry 1588
...Latin decem ten, used in combination, as decemjugis ten-yoked, decempedālis ten feet long, decemplicātus ten-fold, etc.; hence in various technical words:...
15. diddle-, comb. form View full entry 1523
...diddle-daddlediddle-deediddle-diddlediddledumin 6 diddle-dome...
16. drop-, comb. form View full entry 1578
...the verb-stem used in Comb....
17. drumble-, comb. form View full entry 1567
...drumble-beedrumble-doredrumble-drone...
18. † eft-, comb. form View full entry a1522
...obs. Sc. form of aft (see aft); only in eft castle, eft ship...
19. equi-, comb. form View full entry 1579
...repr. Latin æqui-, combining form of æquus equal, prefixed originally to words of Latin origin, as equiangular, but occasionally to those from other sources, as ...
20. fetch-, comb. form View full entry 1598
...the vb.-stem in comb. with adv., as fetch-afterfetch-fireObs.fetch-water...
