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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. abate, v.1 View full entry c1300
...trans. To put an end to (a condition, state of affairs, etc.). Obs....
3. able whackets, n. View full entry 1785
...Blows given on the palm of the hand with a twisted handkerchief. Hence: a sailors' card game in which the loser of the game (or of a point) receives such blows....
4. above, adv., prep., n., and adj. View full entry lOE
...With regard to writing: further up on the present page; previously in the text; in a preceding paragraph, passage, etc. See also senses C. 3, D....
5. accelerator, n. View full entry 1611
...gen. A person who or thing which accelerates something (in speed, rate, amount, or extent, or in time)....
6. 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...
7. accipitrary, n. View full entry 1633
...A person who keeps and trains hawks or falcons; a falconer....
8. 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....
9. ace, n.1 and adj. (and int.) View full entry ?a1300
...A single point in a game, and related uses....
10. action, n. View full entry a1393
...Something done or performed, a deed, an act; (in pl.) habitual or ordinary deeds, conduct....
11. active, adj. and n. View full entry 1340
...Of a way or style of life: characterized by outward action rather than inward contemplation or speculation; practical. Esp. in active life, and chiefly in religious contexts. Opposed to ...
12. address, v. View full entry a1325
...trans. (chiefly in pass.). To direct (a written communication) to a specific person or destination; spec. (in early use) to write and send (a writ, a petition,...
13. Adirondack, n. and adj. View full entry 1699
...A member of the Algonquin people formerly living along the Ottawa River and its tributaries, in Ontario and Quebec. Also occas. with the and pl. concord: this people...
14. adventure, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A chance occurrence or event, an accident. Obs....
15. adventurer, n. View full entry 1466
...A person who undertakes or invests in a commercial adventure or enterprise; one who ventures capital in some project, esp. trade or settlement; a speculator. With capital initial: a member of an...
16. aerial, adj. View full entry ?1545
...Dwelling, flying, or moving in the air, above the earth; occurring or taking place in the air; (spec. of birds or bats) spending much of the time airborne....
17. aero-, comb. form View full entry 1865
...With reference to air or the air....
18. afforest, v. View full entry c1503
...trans.Eng. Law. To convert (an area of land) into a royal hunting ground; to give (land) the legal status of a forest (forest2). Cf. disafforest1...
19. 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....
20. age, n. View full entry c1275
...A naturally distinct section of a person's or animal's existence; a particular period or stage of life. Often with defining word or phrase specifying the stage....
