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1. aberrancy, n. View full entry 1646
...A diversion or departure from a recognized course, standard, or norm; an aberration. Also: the quality or condition of being aberrant; deviation, abnormality....
2. absorbition, n. View full entry a1682
...= absorption...
3. accension, n. View full entry 1646
...The action of catching fire or setting something on fire; the state of being on fire; combustion; ignition; Med. fermentation producing heat, heating or overheating of the blood or other...
4. accessional, adj. View full entry 1646
...Of the nature of an increase or augmentation; additional; supplementary; accessory....
5. accountably, adv. View full entry 1646
...In a manner that is accountable (in various senses); that can be reckoned or accounted for. Cf. unaccountable...
6. † accumbing, n. View full entry 1646
...The practice of reclining, esp. at a table when dining; accubation....
7. † aculeous, adj. View full entry 1658
...Having spines or prickles, aculeate; (also) needle-like, sting-like....
8. additionally, adv. View full entry 1646
...In an additional manner; even more; further to or beyond what has been specified, furthermore....
9. adorement, n. View full entry 1646
...The action of adoring; adoration....
10. † aggelation, n. View full entry 1650
...The process by which ice is formed as water freezes; congelation....
11. alary, adj. View full entry 1658
...Of or relating to wings, esp. those of an insect or other animal. Also: designating a winglike structure. Cf. alar...
12. alliciency, n. View full entry 1646
...The quality or power of attracting or drawing towards; attraction; attractiveness....
13. † alogy, n. View full entry 1646
...Absurdity, unreasonableness; absence of reason....
14. alternity, n. View full entry 1646
...Alternation, alternateness. Now rare....
15. ambidextrous | ambidexterous, adj. View full entry 1646
...Able to use both hands alike....
16. ambilaevous | ambilevous, adj. View full entry 1646
...As it were, left-handed on both sides; the opposite of ambidexter....
17. amphibious, adj. View full entry 1643
...Living both on land and in water....
18. † amphiˈdromical, adj. View full entry 1658
...Pertaining to the ancient Amphidromia (‘an Attic festival at the naming of a child, so called because the parents' friends carried it round the hearth, and then gave it its name.’ Liddell...
19. analogously, adv. View full entry 1646
...In a proportionate, parallel, or similar manner; correspondingly, equivalently; comparably, similarly. With to, with....
20. † anaˈtiferous, adj. View full entry 1646
...Producing ducks or geese; i.e. producing barnacles, formerly supposed to grow on trees, and dropping off into the water below, to turn to ‘Tree-geese’ (Pennant II. 238), whence also the...
