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1. a, int.2 View full entry c1440
...Prefixed to a proper name as a war cry....
2. † aa, n.1 View full entry 1430
...A stream, a watercourse....
3. aaron, n.1 View full entry ?c1425
...The wild arum or cuckoo pint, Arum maculatum. Cf. arum...
4. † abandon, n.1 View full entry a1425
...Chiefly Sc.at (also in) abandoun: recklessly, impetuously; unreservedly, freely. to give in abandon: to give freely....
5. † abase, adv. View full entry a1450
...Down, low; back....
6. abasement, n. View full entry 1435
...A reduction in price or value (esp. of a currency); the action or fact of making such a reduction. Also in extended use....
7. † abashance, n. View full entry a1450
...The quality or condition of being abashed; loss of self-possession....
8. † abashing, n. View full entry c1404
...The action of abash; an instance of this; (also) the state of being abashed; confusion, consternation, embarrassment....
9. abashment, n. View full entry c1430
...The quality or state of being abashed (cf. abash), discomfiture, embarrassment; an instance of this....
10. abatable, adj. View full entry c1430
...That may be abated; liable to be abated (in various senses of abate)....
11. abate, v.2 View full entry c1436
...trans. (refl.). To take possession of land between the death of the owner and the accession of the heir, thereby keeping the legitimate heir out of possession....
12. abated, adj. View full entry ?c1400
...Reduced, diminished, lessened (esp. in quality or amount)....
13. abatement, n.2 View full entry 1421
...The result of abating or lessening (in various senses of abateII.); the amount by which something is abated; a reduction, deduction, decrease....
14. † abattle, v.2 View full entry c1400
...trans. To engage in battle....
15. † abattlement, n. View full entry c1400
...A battlement....
16. † abay, v. View full entry c1400
...intr. Of a dog: to bark or bay, esp. at prey it is pursuing or has caught. Also in extended use, of a person....
17. abbatial, adj. View full entry 1445
...Of, relating to, or deriving from an abbacy; of or belonging to an abbey, abbot, or abbess....
18. abbreviate, adj. View full entry c1425
...= abbreviated (in either sense). Also as pa. pple....
19. abbreviation, n. View full entry ?a1425
...Med. Reduction in the length or size of a part of the body; contraction, esp. of a muscle; an instance of this. Obs....
20. † abeere, adv. View full entry a1450
...On, upon, or to a bier. Only in to bring abeere: to send to the grave, to kill....
