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1. † abysm, v. View full entry 1611
...intr. To sink into or form an abyss, to engulf....
2. abysmus, n. View full entry 1611
...An abysm or abyss....
3. accelerator, n. View full entry 1611
...gen. A person who or thing which accelerates something (in speed, rate, amount, or extent, or in time)....
4. accostable, adj. View full entry 1611
...Capable of being accosted or approached; approachable, accessible; affable....
5. accumulator, n. View full entry 1611
...A person who accumulates things, esp. wealth or possessions; an acquisitive person....
6. adjust, v.2 View full entry 1611
...trans. To arrange, harmonize, or reconcile (different or contradictory things); to settle, to resolve (esp. a difficulty or problem)....
7. admissible, adj. View full entry 1611
...Worthy of consideration or approval; acceptable, valid....
8. adonize, v. View full entry 1611
...trans. To adorn, beautify; to titivate. Chiefly refl. (used chiefly of men). Formerly also with †it, with reflexive meaning. Now hist....
9. adulterator, n. View full entry 1611
...A person who adulterates or debases by contamination; spec. one who makes something poorer in quality or unusable for its original purpose by adding another substance....
10. † adustible, adj. View full entry 1611
...Capable of being adusted (adust), burned, or scorched....
11. † advest, v. View full entry 1611
...trans. To put (a person) in possession of something....
12. † advesture, n. View full entry 1611
...The action or an act of investing or clothing....
13. agriot, n. View full entry 1611
...The sour fruit of a Eurasian cherry, prob. a variety of the morello cherry, Prunus cerasus. Also: the wood of this tree or that of the related Eurasian wild cherry,...
14. Alpic, adj. View full entry 1611
...Of or relating to the Alps; alpine....
15. amerciable, adj. View full entry 1611
...Liable to be amerced....
16. † ˈammic, adj. View full entry 1611
...an old name for sal ammoniac....
17. amputation, n. View full entry 1611
...gen. A cutting or lopping off, as of branches of trees in pruning; also, the cut end. Obs. exc. as fig. use of 2....
18. amusement, n. View full entry 1611
...Musing, mental abstraction, reverie. Obs....
19. annexation, n. View full entry 1611
...The action or process of joining to or uniting:...
20. anterior, adj. View full entry 1611
...Of place: Fore, more to the front; opposed to posterior....
