(a) The letter A of the alphabet; cp. a-per-se; (b) the letter A used in enumeration, in labeling a diagram or a square on the chess board, the recto of a folio, a star, etc.; (c) the dominical letter……

River, stream; -- in names of streams and places [see EPNSoc. 1 (pt. 1.1) & 5 (pp. 161, 165)]. …

In weaving: the woof. …

One who performs calculations with an abacus, an arithmetician. …

Abacus, the instrument, and the art of calculating with it. …

(a) The act or occasion of keeping a hunted animal at bay by barking dogs; (b) the confrontation of hounds and the carcass of slain prey (the former encouraged to lunge and bark at the latter); (c) of……

Lack of composure, ?fear. …

(a) Lowering (of prices); (b) embarrassment, dread, fear. …

(a) A setting on (of dogs), pursuit; (b) excitement; power to excite. …

Control; under abandoun, under (one's) control; yeven (putten) in or to abandoun, put at (someone's) disposal. …

Battlement. …

(a) Lessening, loss; (b) impairment, infringement; (c) lowering (of prices), depreciation; deficiency, as in the weight of a coin; a deduction for light weight; (d) law the quashing of a suit or writ……

(a) Something that alleviates pain, an analgesic; (b) a destroyer. …

Father! -- addressed to God & to an abbot. …

(a) The office, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot; (b) an abbey. …

Abbess. …

The office, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot, abbacy. …

A woman superior of a convent of nuns. …

Deviation, disagreement. …