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1. abacist, n. View full entry a1387
...A person who makes calculations using an abacus....
2. abacus, n. View full entry a1387
...A board or tray strewn with sand in which numbers, letters, diagrams, etc., can be traced and erased. Cf. sandboard1, sand-table(a)sand2a. Now rare...
3. † abay, n. View full entry c1330
...The barking or baying of hounds at a hunted animal, esp. when they have driven it into a position from which it is unable to flee further but must turn and face...
4. abed, adv. View full entry c1300
...In bed. Now somewhat arch....
5. abortive, n. and adj. View full entry a1382
...An aborted fetus; a stillborn child or animal. Cf. abortion2, abortus1. Obs....
6. Abraham, n. View full entry c1300
...heaven; the place of rest for the souls of the righteous dead. Chiefly in Abraham's bosom....
7. absence, n. View full entry c1384
...The state of being absent or away from a place, or from the company of a person or persons. Also occas.: an instance of this. Freq. with possessive adjectives. Contrasted with ...
8. absent, adj. and n. View full entry a1382
...Not present in a place or at an occasion; away. Freq. in predicative use....
9. 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....
10. abundance, n. and adv. View full entry 1340
...An overflowing quantity or amount (of something); a large quantity; plenty....
11. abundant, adj. and adv. View full entry a1382
...Overflowing, more than sufficient; present or existing in great number or quantity; plentiful. Also (in early use): bountiful, generous; fruitful. Also as a postmodifier....
12. abysm, n. View full entry c1350
...= abyss1c. Now arch. and rare....
13. abyss, n. View full entry a1398
...The primal formless chaos out of which the earth and the heavens were created....
14. acacia, n. View full entry a1398
...Med. Originally (later more fully German acacia): a gummy medicinal preparation made from the juice of unripe sloes or plums, used esp. as an astringent (now rare)....
15. accept, v. View full entry a1382
...trans. (formerly (17th–18th centuries) also †intr. with of (obs.))....
16. acceptor, n. View full entry c1384
...= accepter of persons (also faces)accepter2....
17. access, n. View full entry c1300
...An attack, or the onset (of fever or disease); a repeated episode (of an intermittent or chronic disease); (esp. in early use) spec. the characteristic paroxysm...
18. 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....
19. accidental, adj., n., and adv. View full entry 1387-8
...Not essential to the existence of a thing; not necessarily present, incidental, secondary, subsidiary....
20. accipiter, n. View full entry a1398
...Originally (chiefly Falconry): a bird of prey, esp. a hawk. In later use spec. (in Ornithol.): a hawk of the genus Accipiter...
