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1. aberration, n. View full entry 1588
...A deviation or departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically an unwelcome one. Also as a mass noun: deviation, abnormality, departure from the norm....
2. ablow, adj.1 View full entry 1838
...In predicative use only: blooming, full of flowers. Also in figurative context. Cf. abloom...
3. ablow, adj.2 View full entry 1905
...Of the wind: blowing. In predicative use only....
4. † ablow, v. View full entry eOE
...intr. To blow or breathe on or upon....
5. Abraham, n. View full entry c1300
...heaven; the place of rest for the souls of the righteous dead. Chiefly in Abraham's bosom....
6. abrupted, adj. View full entry 1597
...Chiefly formal and literary. Suddenly broken off; cut short, curtailed; cut off; truncated....
7. abscind, v. View full entry 1610
...trans. To cut off; to separate, detach. Now rare and literary....
8. absent, adj. and n. View full entry a1382
...Not present in a place or at an occasion; away. Freq. in predicative use....
9. absinthial, adj. View full entry c1540
...Of, relating to, or suggestive of wormwood; (fig.) bitter, harsh....
10. absorbing, adj. View full entry 1666
...lit. That absorbs; (also) that incorporates or assimilates....
11. ache, v. View full entry eOE
...intr. Of a part of the body, a wound, etc.: to be painful or sore. More generally: to be the source or seat of continuous or prolonged dull physical pain or...
12. acheless, adj. View full entry 1880
...Not aching or throbbing; free of ache....
13. aconite, n. View full entry 1569
...Any of various poisonous Eurasian plants constituting the genus Aconitum (family Ranunculaceae), having spikes of hooded flowers, formerly (and sometimes still) used as a poison or for medicinal...
14. † acraze, v. View full entry 1549
...trans. To weaken, impair, or enfeeble....
15. acroscopic, adj. View full entry 1834
...poet. Positioned so as to view something from a height. Obs.rare....
16. a-crow, adj. View full entry 1868
...In predicative use: crowing....
17. adamant, n. and adj. View full entry eOE
...Originally: a hard, strong rock or mineral, not otherwise identified, to which various other (often contradictory) properties were attributed. In later use chiefly a poetical or rhetorical name for: an embodiment of...
18. adder, n.1 View full entry eOE
...In generic sense: a snake, a serpent, esp. with reference to the serpent as a manifestation of the devil in the biblical account of the Fall in the Garden of Eden; (hence,...
19. adhesiveness, n. View full entry 1663
...The quality of being adhesive (lit. and fig.)....
20. adusted, adj. View full entry 1547
...= adust1a. Now hist. and rare....
