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1. A, n. View full entry 1651
...In form A (without point). As a brand or mark indicating that a person has been convicted of adultery: adulteress, adulterer, adultery. Cf. scarlet letterscarlet2a. Now...
2. A, n. View full entry 1914
...Brit. In form A (without point). Adult, denoting a film, or a classification given to a film, considered to be suitable only for adults or children accompanied by an...
3. ABC in A, n. View full entry 1889
...Aerated Bread Company; (also) a cafeteria or shop run by the company....
4. ABCA in A, n. View full entry 1942
...Army Bureau of Current Affairs, an organization providing troops with information about current affairs during the 193945 war....
5. ACCM in A, n. View full entry 1967
...(also with pronunciation ˈakəmˈækəm) Advisory Council for the Church's Ministry....
6. A.C.H. in A, n. View full entry 1925
...= aircraft handaircraft2....
7. ADGB in A, n. View full entry 1926
...Air Defence of Great Britain....
8. AEU in A, n. View full entry 1921
...Amalgamated Engineering Union....
9. AFS in A, n. View full entry 1938
...Auxiliary Fire Service....
10. AID in A, n. View full entry 1916
...Aeronautical Inspection Directorate (also Department)....
11. AIF in A, n. View full entry 1915
...Australian Imperial Force....
12. ASSR in A, n. View full entry 1926
...Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic....
13. ASTMS in A, n. View full entry 1967
...(also with pronunciation ˈastəmzˈæstəmz) Association of Scientific, Technical, and Managerial Staffs....
14. ATV in A, n. View full entry 1955
...Associated Television, a British television company broadcasting between 1955 and 1981....
15. AUEW in A, n. View full entry 1971
...Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers....
16. AVH in A, n. View full entry 1953
...the Hungarian secret police, from 1949 to 1956; cf. AVO...
17. AVO in A, n. View full entry 1951
...the Hungarian secret police, before 1949cf. AVH...
18. A1, adj. View full entry 1776
...Esp. of a wooden ship: first-class in respect of both hull and fittings (originally and esp. as classified in Lloyd's Register: see note in etymology). Also A1 at Lloyd's. Now...
19. aam, n. View full entry a1400
...A Dutch and German liquid measure of varying capacity, ranging in different continental cities from 37 to 44 imperial gallons (168.2 to 200.2 litres) and used in Britain for Rhenish wine; (also)...
20. aaron, n.1 View full entry ?c1425
...The wild arum or cuckoo pint, Arum maculatum. Cf. arum...
