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1. ablution, n. View full entry c1405
...Chem. Originally: the purification of oils and other substances by a process of emulsification with hot water, the water being drained off after the two immiscible liquids have been allowed to...
2. absent, v. View full entry a1425
...intr. To withdraw, remove oneself; to stay away. In later use chiefly S. Asian....
3. accomplish, v. View full entry c1405
...trans. To fulfil, perform, or carry out successfully (an undertaking, desire, request, etc.); to achieve (one's object)....
4. accustomance, n. View full entry c1405
...Customary use or practice; custom, habit; (in later use) the action of making a person or thing accustomed to something; familiarization. Also as a count noun....
5. † achate, n.2 View full entry c1405
...The act of buying something. Also: an instance of this, a purchase....
6. † acompass, adv. View full entry c1450
...In a circle....
7. acquaintable, adj. View full entry a1425
...Of a person: easy to be acquainted with; disposed to friendship; affable, amiable; (also) capable of being made an acquaintance. Occas. †(of a thing): able to be known or proved (obs....
8. addressing, n. View full entry ?c1400
...The action of address (in various senses); an instance of this; (esp. in early use) the action or an act of arranging or guiding something; (in later use)...
9. † advocary, n. View full entry ?a1425
...Perh.: an act of pleading or advocating....
10. afear, adj. and conj. View full entry c1410
...= afeared...
11. agree, v. View full entry a1413
...trans....
12. agreeable, adj., adv., and n. View full entry c1405
...With to (also †unto). That is to someone's liking; pleasing to a person, or to his or her taste....
13. agreeably, adv. View full entry ?c1400
...In pleasing manner; enjoyably, pleasantly. (Now the most common sense.)...
14. † aguiler, n.1 View full entry a1425
...A needle case....
15. airish, adj. View full entry c1450
...Of or belonging to the air; aerial, airlike. Now rare....
16. albe, conj. View full entry c1405
...With finite clause....
17. † aleys, n. View full entry a1425
...The bitter fruit of the wild service tree, Sorbus torminalis....
18. aline, adv. View full entry c1400
...In a line or row....
19. almury, n. View full entry c1400
...A pointer on the rete of an astrolabe or on a similar instrument....
20. † aˈnnoyful | anoyful, adj. View full entry c1386
...Full of annoyance; = annoyous...
