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1. A and E in A, n. View full entry 1966
...accident and emergency (department)....
2. Abdul, n. View full entry 1870
...Originally: a male Turk; spec. (chiefly Austral. and N.Z.) a Turkish soldier in the First World War (191418); (also) Turkish soldiers collectively. Later...
3. accident, n. View full entry 1898
...Chiefly Brit. and N.Z.accident and emergency: (attrib.) designating cases of acute injury or illness, or (now usually) a hospital department or ward that deals with...
4. accommodation paddock in accommodation, n. View full entry 1843
...a paddock used to hold animals in transit and provide pasture for them....
5. ace, n.1 and adj. (and int.) View full entry 1904
...Austral., N.Z., and S. Afr.slang. on one's ace: on one's own....
6. acid, adj. and n. View full entry 1906
...Austral. and N.Z.slang. to put (also try, etc.) the acid on: to exert pressure on a person (for money, favours, etc.); similarly to...
7. advantage set in advantage, n. View full entry 1775
...a set which must be won by a margin of two games; one in which extra games are played in order to achieve this margin....
8. after, n.2 View full entry 1906
...= afternoon1. Chiefly in this after....
9. agist, v. View full entry a1450
...trans. To let or hire (land, originally woodland) for pasture....
10. agist, v. View full entry 1473
...trans. To pasture (livestock belonging to another person), usually for hire or for some consideration. Also: to pasture (one's own animal or livestock) on land belonging to another person....
11. agist, v. View full entry 1585
...intr. Of livestock: to pasture for a specified time. †Also trans.: to pasture on (land) (obs.)....
12. agist, v. View full entry 1601
...trans. In extended use: to make (lands or their owner) liable to a rate or tax. Obs....
13. agisted, adj. View full entry 1669
...Of an animal: that has been put to pasture, usually for hire on land not belonging to their owner. Also of land: used by livestock that has been agisted....
14. agisting, n. View full entry 1598
...The action of taking livestock in to pasture on agistment....
15. agistment, n. View full entry a1447
...The rate levied on or profit made from the pasturing of another person's cattle....
16. agistment, n. View full entry a1450
...The herbage of a forest, or the right to it. Cf. herbage3. Obs....
17. agistment, n. View full entry 1537
...The action or process of taking livestock to feed at an agreed rate; (also) the opening of a forest for a specified time to livestock. †Also in pl.: cattle taken...
18. agistment, n. View full entry 1632
...In extended use: a rate or charge levied upon the owner or occupier of (pasture) lands. Obs....
19. agistment, n. View full entry 1593
...tithe of agistment: = agistment tithe2. Now hist....
20. agistment, n. View full entry 1662
...General attrib., as agistment book, agistment fee, agistment stock, etc....
