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1. accelerator, n. View full entry 1611
...gen. A person who or thing which accelerates something (in speed, rate, amount, or extent, or in time)....
2. accumulator, n. View full entry 1611
...A person who accumulates things, esp. wealth or possessions; an acquisitive person....
3. 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,...
4. † ˈammic, adj. View full entry 1611
...an old name for sal ammoniac....
5. 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....
6. anterior, adj. View full entry 1611
...Of place: Fore, more to the front; opposed to posterior....
7. apophysis, n. View full entry 1611
...Physiol. A natural protuberance or process, arising from, and forming a continuous part of, a bone; esp. one of the processes on the spinal vertebræ....
8. aˈpothecaryship, n. View full entry 1611
...The practice of an apothecary....
9. arrested, adj. View full entry 1611
...Stopped, put a stop to, checked, stayed; seized by legal warrant. arrested development...
10. associable, adj. View full entry 1611
...That may be associated with, companionable....
11. baying, n.1 View full entry 1611
...The continued deep barking of a large dog....
12. † beal, v. View full entry 1611
...intr. To suppurate, to ‘gather.’ Still in regular use in Scotland....
13. bedder, n.1 View full entry 1611
...One who puts to bed; one who litters cattle....
14. beˈdewing, adj. View full entry 1611
...That bedews or moistens like dew....
15. biˈformity, n. View full entry 1611
...Biform nature....
16. black-backed, adj. View full entry 1611
...Chiefly in the names of birds and other animals: having a distinctive black back....
17. blight, n. View full entry 1611
...gen. Any baleful influence of atmospheric or invisible origin, that suddenly blasts, nips, or destroys plants, affects them with disease, arrests their growth, or prevents their blossom from ‘setting’; a diseased...
18. † blought, adj. View full entry 1611
...? Swollen, plump....
19. † bonket, n. View full entry 1611
...(See quot. 1611.)...
20. bosomy, adj. View full entry 1611
...Full of sheltered recesses or hollows....
