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1. abased, adj. View full entry 1554
...Made lower in rank, condition, or character; humbled, humiliated, degraded....
2. abatement, n.2 View full entry 1421
...The result of abating or lessening (in various senses of abateII.); the amount by which something is abated; a reduction, deduction, decrease....
3. abstract, adj. and n. View full entry a1398
...Of a word: denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object. Freq. in abstract noun. Opposed to concrete....
4. abyss, n. View full entry a1398
...The primal formless chaos out of which the earth and the heavens were created....
5. accident, n. View full entry 1395
...Philos. In Aristotelian thought: a property or quality not essential to a substance or object; something that does not constitute an essential component, an attribute. Cf. substance4a....
6. accollé, adj. View full entry 1664
...Entwined, wreathed; (spec. of a heraldic animal) wreathed about the neck, collared, gorged. Cf. accolled1, 2. Now rare....
7. accolled, adj. View full entry 1612
...Heraldry. Intertwined; entwined, wreathed....
8. accompaniment, n. View full entry 1697
...Music....
9. accosted, adj. and n. View full entry 1632
...Heraldry. Of a charge: flanked by other charges; spec. = cotisedcotise. Obs....
10. accrued, adj. View full entry 1656
...Accumulated or increased by growth; (esp. of interest, leave) built up over time....
11. achievement, n. View full entry 1477
...The action of achieving something; completion, accomplishment, successful execution....
12. acorned, adj. View full entry 1610
...Provided or decorated with acorns; bearing acorns. In early use chiefly Heraldry....
13. addition, n. View full entry c1400
...Something which is added or joined to another thing; an appendix, an augmentation; (also) a person who becomes part of a family or other group of people....
14. addorsed, adj. View full entry 1572
...Of two emblems: facing back to back on a shield; (of a shield) characterized by such a design. Freq. as postmodifier....
15. adossé, adj. View full entry 1710
...= addorsed...
16. adumbration, n. View full entry 1531
...Shading, shadowing; shade, obscuration; (also) a shadow....
17. affronted, adj. View full entry ?1488
...Impudent, shameless; = effrontedObs....
18. affrontee, adj. View full entry 1718
...orig. Heraldry. Of two figures in a design: facing each other. Cf. affronted3, confronté Now rare....
19. † afgod, n. View full entry 1769
...An idol, a heathen god. Also: a heraldic dragon associated with such an idol or god....
20. alerion, n. View full entry a1500
...A bird believed to have no feet. Obs....
