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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. abashed, adj. View full entry a1387
...Feeling or caused to feel discomfited or disconcerted, esp. as a result of a sudden sense of shame or embarrassment. Cf. abash...
4. ability, n. View full entry a1398
...Suitableness or adaptation for a purpose; fitness, aptitude; (also) an instance of this. Obs....
5. ableness, n. View full entry a1387
...The quality or condition of being able; ability; capacity for doing something. Cf. unableness...
6. ably, adv. View full entry a1387
...In an able manner; with skill, power, or effectiveness; competently, cleverly; †fittingly, suitably, appropriately (obs.). Freq. with modifying adverb....
7. abnegation, n. View full entry a1398
...Denial of an assertion, statement of what is not the case; absence of evidence for a case. Obs.rare....
8. abound, v.2 View full entry a1398
...trans. To set limits to, to restrain. Obs....
9. abouts, adv. and prep. View full entry a1387
...= about (in various senses). Cf. nearabouts...
10. 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....
11. abstractive, adj. and n. View full entry a1398
...Of, relating to, or expressing abstract ideas or concepts; engaged in, or able to engage in, the process of considering something theoretically or in the abstract. Cf. abstract1b....
12. abstractly, adv. View full entry a1398
...Without reference to concrete examples or particular instances; in the abstract....
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. accidentally, adv. View full entry a1398
...Non-essentially, incidentally; as a secondary or subsidiary effect....
16. 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...
17. accounting, n. View full entry a1387
...The action or process of reckoning, counting, or computing; numeration, computation, calculation; (also) an instance of this. Occas. in extended uses. Now chiefly in sense 1b....
18. acephal, n. and adj. View full entry a1387
...Church Hist. = Acephalian Also: †a priest who is not subject to the authority of a bishop (cf. acephali1) (obs.rare). Usu. with capital...
19. acetabulum, n. View full entry a1398
...Roman Hist.A cup to hold condiments, esp. vinegar, for serving at the table.A measure of capacity for liquids and dry granular substances, equal to one-eighth of a sextary (sextary...
20. acinus, n. View full entry a1398
...Bot....
