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1. account, n. View full entry c1300
...Counting, reckoning, enumeration; computation, calculation; (also) a style or mode of reckoning; an amount established by counting. Now chiefly in money of account: see money2....
2. all, adj., pron., and n., adv., and conj. View full entry eOE
...With singular noun. The whole amount, quantity, extent, or compass of; the whole of....
3. and, conj.1, adv., and n.1 View full entry eOE
...Simply connective....
4. arrest, v. View full entry c1374
...To stop, come to a stand, halt. Obs....
5. as, adv. and conj. View full entry OE
...Of quantity or degree: in that degree, to that extent (in or to which). Obs....
6. ascribe, v. View full entry 1382
...trans. To annex or add in writing, to subscribe:...
7. bad, adj., n.2, and adv. View full entry 1203
...Of poor quality or little worth....
8. bank, n.2 View full entry 1275
...A long seat for several to sit on, a bench, or form; a platform or stage to speak from. Obs. (Cf. mountebank)...
9. be, v. View full entry eOE
...To have place in the objective universe or realm of fact, to exist; (spec. of God, etc.) to exist independently of other beings. Also: to exist in life, to live....
10. brock, n.1 View full entry c1000
...A badger: a name, in later times, associated especially with the epithet stinking....
11. calcariferous, adj. View full entry 1853
...‘Bearing spurs’ (New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon)....
12. cinereous, adj. View full entry 1661
...Of an ashy hue, ash-coloured, ashen-gray; spec. in names of birds having ash-coloured feathers, as the cinereous crow, cinereous eagle, etc....
13. cocoa, n. View full entry 1672
...The seed of Theobroma Cacao, a tropical American tree: more correctly called cacaoObs. Formerly commonly called cocoa-nut, and now often cocoa-bean....
14. concentric, adj. and n. View full entry c1400
...Having a common centre, described about the same centre. (Said of circles and spheres, etc.)...
15. consumptuous, adj. View full entry 1601
...Consumptive....
16. cusp, n. View full entry 1579
...Astrol. The beginning or entrance of a ‘house’....
17. diamorphosis, n. View full entry 1861
...‘The building up of a body to its proper form’ (New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon1883)....
18. effluvium, n. View full entry 1646
...A flowing out, an issuing forth; a process or manner of issuing forth. Obs....
19. elimination, n. View full entry 1601
...The action of turning persons out of doors, or expelling them from their country; the fact of being thus expelled....
20. ephemeris, n. View full entry 1556
...A record of daily occurrences; a diary, journal. Obs....
