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1. abishersing, n. View full entry 1579
...App. a misreading of mishersing...
2. abnormeth, n. View full entry 1374
...A misreading (in The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1782) VIII) of vnourneth (see quot. 1374burn), itself prob. an error for anorneth...
3. abote, adj. View full entry 1878
...Probably a misreading of a boot (boat)....
4. abstable, adj. View full entry 1532
...Editorial misreading of obstacle Subsequently misinterpreted in quot. 1847....
5. acquaintation, n. View full entry 1468
...App. a misreading of aqweyntance, variant of acquaintance...
6. adamanty, adj. View full entry ?a1871
...Misprint of adamantinest as adamantiest in 1871 edition of Nashe's Lenten Stuffe (see quot. 1599adamantine1a for corrected reading)....
7. † adsolve, v. View full entry 1605
...intr. With infinitive. To resolve....
8. adventious, adj. View full entry 1633
...= adventitious (in various senses)....
9. advower, n. View full entry 1503
...A misreading (in Arnold's Chron. (1811) 146) of aduowes, plural of aduowe, variant of avow: see quot. 1503avow1....
10. † aestable, adj. View full entry 1727
...Belonging to summer....
11. agipe, n. View full entry 1658
...Apparently a misreading of a gipe (see gipe)....
12. † alard, v. View full entry a1425
...trans. To fatten....
13. † alchimistie, n. View full entry 1578
...= alchemistry1....
14. alienatory, n. View full entry
...Misprint for alienator in Webster (1864)....
15. allevement, n. View full entry 1599
...Editorial misreading of allegement (see quot. 1592allegement)....
16. † almigation, n. View full entry 1592
...Perh.: = amalgamation...
17. anotherness, n. View full entry 1617
...Misprint of an othernesse in the 1617 edition of Sidney and Golding's Trewnesse Christian Relig. (othernesse is used elswhere in the same text: see...
18. antipodeal, adj. View full entry 1881
...Erroneous form of antipodal...
19. Aristarchy, n. View full entry a1612
...Erroneous alteration of Aristarchi ‘severe critics’ (= Greek Ἀρίσταρχοι: see Aristarch) in some later edd. of the works cited below. Hence in Webster (...
