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1. Abbevillian, adj. and n. View full entry 1783
...Of or relating to Abbeville or its inhabitants. Now rare....
2. Ahrensburg, adj. View full entry 1931
...Of, relating to, or designating an early postglacial culture of north Germany and the Low Countries dating to the period around 8500 b.c., remains of which were first...
3. Akkadian, adj. and n. View full entry 1856
...Of or relating to a non-Semitic people inhabiting the southern part of south Mesopotamia in the third millennium b.c., now identified as the Sumerians. Also: of or relating to this...
4. akkadogram, n. View full entry 1954
...The name given to any one of the cuneiform characters of the Akkadian language. Cf. SumerogramSumerian....
5. Aquitanian, adj. and n. View full entry 1621
...Chiefly hist. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Roman province of Aquitania, or the historic province or kingdom of Aquitaine. Also occas.: of or relating to the region of...
6. Audi, n. View full entry 1921
...Applied attrib. to remains of the lower Aurignacian period resembling those found at l'Abri Audi, and to the culture they represent. Also absol....
7. Aunjetitz, n. View full entry 1925
...The German form of the name of a village near Prague, in the Czech Republic, applied attrib. to the remains found there of an important Early Bronze Age culture and to the...
8. Azilian, adj. View full entry 1899
...Of or belonging to the transition period between the palæolithic and neolithic ages. Also ...
9. Babylonish, adj. (and n.) View full entry eOE
...Of, from, or relating to the ancient city of Babylon (now in Iraq), or to the ancient Babylonian Empire (hist.). Also: resembling (that of) Babylon or Babylonia. In Old English...
10. Babylonism, n. View full entry 1610
...derogatory. The doctrines and practices of the Roman Catholic Church; Roman Catholicism. See Babylon1. Obs.rare....
11. Babylonize, v. View full entry 1607
...trans. and intr. To align or affiliate with Babylon or Babylonia. Obs....
12. Badarian, adj. and n. View full entry 1924
...Designating an early predynastic culture of Upper Egypt, evidence of which was first discovered at Badari in 1924; of or relating to this culture....
13. basket, n. View full entry a1300
...A vessel of wickerwork, made of plaited osiers, cane, rushes, bast, or other materials....
14. beg, v. View full entry ?c1225
...To ask alms or by way of alms....
15. black-a-lyre, n. View full entry 1421
...In medieval England: a type of black cloth from Lier in Brabant; (also) any cloth resembling this. Cf. green of lyre...
16. Boxgrove, n. View full entry 1994
...Used attrib. with reference to the fossil remains of one of the earliest hominids found in Europe, which were discovered in Lower Palaeolithic deposits in a gravel pit near Boxgrove,...
17. Brittany, n. View full entry 1610
...In pl. The islands constituting the British Isles. Also: the Roman provinces of Britannia Prima (Wales and south-western England) and Britannia Secunda (northern England). Obs....
18. Cappadocian, adj. and n. View full entry 1607
...Of or pertaining to Cappadocia or its inhabitants....
19. Clovis, n. View full entry 1943
...The name of a city in eastern New Mexico, U.S.A., applied attrib. to a prehistoric culture and its remains first found at the Blackwater Draw site near there, esp. to...
20. Creswellian, adj. View full entry 1926
...Pertaining or belonging to a cultural period of the Mesolithic or late Palæolithic, represented only in Britain and roughly contemporary with the Magdalenian period. Also ellipt. as ...
