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1. ambe, n. View full entry 1711
...Surg. (see quot.)...
2. † ˈantherine, n. View full entry 1710
...A kind of poplin, now obsolete....
3. arango, n. View full entry 1715
...A type of rough carnelian bead from Bombay (now Mumbai) for the African market....
4. ardass, n. View full entry 1701
...A very fine sort of Persian silk....
5. assassinator, n. View full entry 1704
...One who assassinates; an assassin....
6. assientist, n. View full entry 1713
...One of the parties to an Assiento contract; a shareholder in an Assiento company....
7. assiento | asiento, n. View full entry 1714
...‘A contract, or conuention between the king of Spain and other powers, for furnishing the Spanish dominions in America with negro slaves’ (Johnson). spec. That made between Great Britain and...
8. aulic, adj. and n. View full entry 1701
...Of or relating to a court; courtly....
9. aune, n. View full entry 1706
...An ell; an obsolete French cloth measure, which varied in length in different localities....
10. ˈbacklet, n. View full entry 1724
...A back yard. (Chiefly in s.w.)...
11. bank-book, n. View full entry 1714
...One of the books in which the transactions of a bank are entered....
12. † Bar, n.7 View full entry 1720
...= baronet; now Bart....
13. basilic, n. View full entry 1703
...= basilica1....
14. † ˈbavaroy, n. View full entry 1713
...A kind of cloak or surtout; sometimes fig....
15. † ˈbeaufort, n. View full entry 1712
...A material used for flags....
16. ˈbeautifying, adj. View full entry 1702
...That beautifies or makes beautiful....
17. ˈblast-ˈfurnace, n. View full entry 1706
...A furnace in which a blast of air is used; spec. the common furnace for iron-smelting, into which a blast of compressed and highly heated air is driven by a...
18. bob, adj. View full entry 1709
...Cut short (as a horse's tail); bobbed....
19. bombardment, n. View full entry 1702
...The process of bombarding; continuous attack upon a place with shot and shell....
20. bomb-shell, n. View full entry 1708
...= bomb2. Often fig. (or in fig. phr.). A shattering or devastating act, event, etc. Phr. blonde bomb-shell, a fair-haired person, esp. a woman, of...
