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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. back-sword, n. View full entry 1611
...A sword with only one cutting edge....
4. batting, n. View full entry 1611
...The action of using or striking with a bat:...
5. bitting, n.1 View full entry 1611
...The putting of the bit in a horse's mouth....
6. burster, n. View full entry 1611
...He who, or that which, bursts; spec. (Gunnery) a charge of gunpowder for bursting a shell, or the bag containing it. Hence burster-bag...
7. canvass, n. View full entry 1611
...A shaking up; a tossing up and down. Obs....
8. chase, n.3 View full entry 1611
...The hollow furrow or ‘gutter’ on a cross-bow wherein the arrow lies. Obs....
9. ˈchimney-sweep, n. View full entry 1611
... The cry of a chimney-sweeper. Obs....
10. chuck, n.3 View full entry 1611
...A slight, sudden blow or upward tap under the chin....
11. click, n.1 View full entry 1611
...A slight, sharp, hard, non-ringing sound of concussion, thinner than a clack, such as is made by the dropping of a latch, the cocking of a gun, etc. Also ...
12. closer, n.2 View full entry 1611
...One who or that which closes (in various senses of the vb.)....
13. dogging, n.1 View full entry 1611
...The action of dog (in various senses), spec....
14. down, n.3 View full entry 1611
...The burden of a song. (Cf. down26.)...
15. dropped | dropt, adj. View full entry 1611
...Fallen, lowered; allowed to drop or fall. spec. in Rugby Football, designating a goal scored by a drop-kick....
16. † dust-point, n. View full entry 1611
...A boy's game in which ‘points’ were laid in a heap of dust, and thrown at with a stone....
17. engagement, n. View full entry 1611
...The pledging or mortgaging (of property); a mortgage, ‘encumbrance’. Obs....
18. engaging, n. View full entry 1611
...The action of engage, in various senses. Also attrib., as in engaging guard (Mil.)....
19. fishable, adj. View full entry 1611
...That may be, or admits of being, fished in....
20. ˈfisheress, n. View full entry 1611
...A female fisher....
