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1. adventure, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A chance occurrence or event, an accident. Obs....
2. advertiser, n. View full entry 1548
...A person who informs, notifies, or warns. Obs. (arch. in later use)....
3. 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....
4. air, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...An atmosphere contaminated by noxious fumes, vapours, etc.; such contaminating fumes themselves; miasma. Now only (with qualifying adjective) merged in sense 2a....
5. 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....
6. altar, n. View full entry eOE
...A block, table, stand, or other raised structure with a flat top used as the focus for a religious ritual, especially for making sacrifices or offerings to a god or gods....
7. aˈmalgam, v. View full entry c1386
...trans. To soften by combination with mercury; to alloy with mercury. Obs....
8. ancient, adj. and n.1 View full entry 1366
...Of or belonging to time past, former, earlier, bygone. arch., exc. when approaching sense A. 2....
9. anneal, v. View full entry a1000
...To set on fire, kindle, inflame. lit. and fig.Obs....
10. annealed, adj. View full entry OE
...Set on fire. Obs....
11. antique, adj. and n. View full entry 1530
...Belonging to former times, ancient, olden. (Now generally rhetorical = of the ‘good old times.’)...
12. architecture, n. View full entry 1563
...The art or science of building or constructing edifices of any kind for human use....
13. argent, n. and adj. View full entry c1500
...The metal silver. arch. or poet.spume of argent (Latin argenti spuma): litharge of silver....
14. art, n.1 View full entry c1300
...Skill in doing something, esp. as the result of knowledge or practice....
15. as, adv. and conj. View full entry OE
...Of quantity or degree: in that degree, to that extent (in or to which). Obs....
16. assay, n. View full entry 1330
...The trying (of a person or thing); trial imposed upon or endured by any object, in order to test its virtue, fitness, etc. Obs. exc. as fig. use of 6....
17. attemper, v. View full entry c1374
...To qualify by admixture; to modify or moderate by blending with something of different or opposite quality; to temper....
18. author, n. View full entry c1300
...gen. The person who originates or gives existence to anything:...
19. back, n.1 View full entry c885
...properly. The convex surface of the body of persons and vertebrated animals which is adjacent to the spinal axis, and opposite to the belly and most of the special organs. It...
20. baluster, n. View full entry 1602
...A short pillar or column, of circular section, and curving outline (properly, double-curved), slender above and swelling below into an elliptical or pear-shaped bulge; usually applied in a series called a ...
