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1. a-, prefix3 View full entry 1673
...(No longer productive.) Forming verbs, adverbs, and prepositions, originally with the senses ‘on’, ‘on to’....
2. Aaronic, adj. View full entry 1652
...Of or relating to Aaron or the order of priesthood which he is taken to represent; Levitical. Also: characteristic of or relating to a high priest....
3. Aaron's rod, n. View full entry 1631
...In similative and allusive use: a powerful force which devours or overwhelms everything around it....
4. † abackstays, adv. View full entry 1630
...In line with the direction of the wind; with sails positioned in this way, thus presenting no surface to the wind....
5. abaction, n. View full entry 1623
...The action of driving something away; spec. the action of stealing livestock, esp. cattle, by driving them away....
6. abactor, n. View full entry 1659
...A person who steals livestock, esp. herds of cattle, usually by driving the animals away. Also in extended use....
7. abandon, n.2 View full entry 1614
...The action of abandoning; abandonment, relinquishment; an instance of this....
8. abandonable, adj. View full entry 1611
...Capable of being abandoned....
9. abaptiston, n. View full entry 1688
...Any of various types of trepan designed to prevent sudden penetration into the brain; (also) the crown of a trepan (see crown15)....
10. † abarstic, adj. View full entry 1623
...Insatiable....
11. abas, n. View full entry 1677
...A measure of weight for pearls, formerly used in Persia (now Iran) and typically equal to seven-eighths of a carat....
12. abasing, adj. View full entry 1615
...That abases; humbling, humiliating....
13. Abassian, adj. and n. View full entry 1601
...= Abyssinian2....
14. † abastardized, adj. View full entry 1653
...Degenerate, corrupt; bastardized. Cf. abastardize...
15. † abasure, n. View full entry 1647
...The action or an act of abasing; the condition of being abased; humiliation....
16. † abater, n.2 View full entry 1653
...An abating, an abatement....
17. abating, adj. View full entry 1662
...That abates (in various senses of abate); esp. that decreases or subsides....
18. † abating, prep. View full entry 1631
...If one excepts; with the exception of; except for. Cf. abate11....
19. Abaza, n. and adj. View full entry 1693
...A member of a north-west Caucasian people, inhabiting mainly the Karachay-Cherkess Republic in Russia....
20. abbasi, n. View full entry 1615
...A Persian silver coin (originally weighing approx. 9.33 grams) equivalent in value to two mahmudi (mahmudia) or 200 dinars, first issued by the Safavid Shah Abbas I (reigned ...
