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1. abraid, v.1 View full entry OE
...trans. To move (something) suddenly or violently, to wrench, snatch; to pull out; to draw (a sword). Also fig.Obs....
2. 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....
3. 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,...
4. adderbolt, n. View full entry 1483
...A dragonfly. Cf. adder3....
5. adderwort, n. View full entry OE
...The plant bistort, Persicaria bistorta; also called snakeweed; cf. adder's grass1.Dragon arum, Dracunculus vulgaris (obs.)....
6. addition, n. View full entry c1400
...Something which is added or joined to another thing; an appendix, an augmentation; (also) a person who becomes part of a family or other group of people....
7. addle, n. and adj. View full entry OE
...Urine; liquid dung; foul or stagnant water; slime, mire. Chiefly Eng. regional (chiefly south-west.) and Sc. in later use....
8. affordance, n. View full entry 1879
...Eng. regional (Cumberland). The amount a person can afford to pay. Now rare....
9. again, adv., prep., and conj. View full entry eOE
...In the opposite direction; back. Obs....
10. agnail, n. View full entry eOE
...A corn on the toe or foot. In later use also: a bunion; an ingrowing or deformed toenail. Now Eng. regional (north.), rare....
11. agree, v. View full entry a1413
...trans....
12. ail, n.1 View full entry eOE
...The awn (awn) of barley and other grasses....
13. ail, v. View full entry eOE
...trans. With animate subject: to cause trouble or harm to, to afflict. Obs....
14. aim, v. View full entry a1375
...To estimate, calculate, reckon (a number or value); to count. Also in pass. with complement: to amount to (a given number). Obs....
15. airish, adj. View full entry c1450
...Of or belonging to the air; aerial, airlike. Now rare....
16. airy, adj. View full entry a1398
...Of or belonging to the air, esp. as distinguished from the earth, water, etc.; living or located in the air....
17. aldern, adj. and n. View full entry OE
...Of alder (the tree or the wood)....
18. ale, n. View full entry eOE
...Any beer other than lager, stout, or porter; spec. beer brewed by top fermentation. Also: a type of this....
19. alewife, n.2 View full entry 1633
...A herring or shad of the North American east coast, Alosa pseudoharengus, occurring in both migratory and landlocked forms. Also (U.S. regional): any of several other east coast...
20. 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....
