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1. abai n.

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(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…

2. abaishaunce n.

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Lack of composure, ?fear.

3. aba(i)shement n.

Additional spellings: abaishement
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(a) Lowering (of prices); (b) embarrassment, dread, fear.

4. abandǒun n.

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

5. abātement n.

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(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…

6. abbeie n.

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

7. abbes(se n.

Additional spellings: abbesse
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A woman superior of a convent of nuns.

8. ab(b)reviāciǒun n.

Additional spellings: abbreviacioun
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(a) Shortness; (b) abridgement (of a story, etc.); an abstract or summary.

9. aberdē̆n(e n.

Additional spellings: aberdene
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Sun-dried or salt codfish.

10. abet(te n.

Additional spellings: abette
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Incitement to evil; urging.

11. abettǒur, -er n.

Additional spellings: abetter
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One who encourages or supports an offender.

12. abhomināciǒun n.

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(a) Physical loathing, disgust, nausea; abhominacioun of wlatsomnesse, nausea; haven abhominacioun of, to be disgusted or nauseated by (sth.); abhominacioun of stomak; (b) moral abhorrence; haven

13. abilitẹ̄ n.

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A capacity for doing something, proficiency in an art or profession, ability, power.

14. abil(l)ement n.

Additional spellings: abillement
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(a) A piece of equipment; a tool, an instrument, a weapon, a piece of armor, etc.; -- usually pl.; (b) abillementes of werre, military equipment.

15. abīme n.

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The depths (of the sea or the earth), abyss; also, the bottomless pit, hell.

16. abjecciǒun n.

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(a) Humbleness, lowliness; an abject position; (b) one who is utterly degraded, the lowest (of the lowly).

17. abjūrāciǒun n.

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Solemn renunciation of heresy or idolatry.

18. ablā̆tī̆f, -ī̆ve adj. & n.

Additional spellings: ablative
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(a) The ablative (case) of Latin; a noun or adjective in the ablative case; (b) in a pun (with ref. to L ablātiō a taking away & ablāt-um taken away, stolen): carried off, stolen; ablatif cas, the…

19. abobbed ppl. as n.

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The game of blind-man's buff [see first quot.]; pleien abobbed; fig. to fool or delude a helpless person.

20. abǒundaunce n.

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(a) A great number of things, a great quantity; plenty, a sufficiency; also, an excess; -- often with in or of; (b) aboundaunce of water, an overflow, a flood.