(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) of dogs: holden at abai, keep (an animal) at bay; stonden at abai, surround an animal; hunten to abai, chase (an animal)……

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……

Something that alleviates pain, an analgesic. …

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. …

Abbess. …

Abbacy. …

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

(a) The superior of a convent of monks having the status of an abbey; (b) = abba, q.v. …

A loaf of bread of some kind. …

The office of abbot. …

(a) Shortness; (b) abridgement (of a story, etc.); an abstract or summary. …

An alphabet, esp. the Latin alphabet of 22 letters (lacking k and w, and distinct characters for j and v) arranged in fixed sequence; abece of Grew, abece of Hebru, abece of Latine men. …

A spelling book or primer. …

Sun-dried or salt codfish. …

Gesture, sign. …

Incitement to evil; urging. …

Instigation to, or connivance in, an offense or crime. …

One who encourages or supports an offender. …

(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……

Loathing. …

A delay, tarrying. …

(a) One who stays in a place, a sojourner, a dweller; (b) one who is constant or steadfast, one who perseveres. …

A kind of hawk. …

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

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

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

(a) The depths of the earth or the sea; (b) the primordial chaos, amorphous matter; (c) hell. …

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

Solemn renunciation of heresy or idolatry. …

Med. and surg. (a) Removal, amputation; ablacioun of blod, bloodletting; also, removal (of the cause of a disease); (b) loss of function (in a part of the body). …

The weaning (of a child). …

Removal of soil from the roots of vines. …

(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……

A capacity for doing something; proneness to sin [quot.Cloud]. …

Alch. and pharm. The process by which oil or other substances, after being reduced to liquid form, are cleansed of impurities. [An emulsion is formed with hot water; this is allowed to separate, and……

(a) A negative assertion, a denial; (b) self-denial, renunciation. …

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

(a) The act of waiting, delay; abod of, waiting for, awaiting; (b) non abod, no delay, no hesitation; withouten (buten) abod, without delay, immediately; no leng abod, no longer delay. …

The aorta. …

Abortion, stillbirth. …

Abortion. …

(a) Born prematurely or dead; (b) as noun: a child born prematurely or dead, a stillbirth; also fig.; (c) one who is born deformed, a monster. …

(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. …

(a) A higher place; from (fro) above, from heaven; also, from the sky; (b) the upper part of the body or of a bodily organ. …

(a) A reduction or lessening in amount; a shortening in space or time; (b) a condensed version, an epitome. …

Censure, upbraiding. …

?A disease of hawks. …

Southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum). …

Broth. …

(a) Removal by cutting off or away; (b) removal (by means of a laxative); (c) loss (of the power of speech). …

A cutting instrument; prob. scissors. …

(a) The state of being away from a place, absence; in his absence, etc.; (b) in absence, absent; (c) the fact of being lacking or missing, lack, non-existence. …

(a) Not in a particular place, not present, absent; -- often with fro, from; (b) of things, qualities, etc.: absent, lacking, non-existent. …

A precious stone, reputed to hold heat for 7 days. …

Wormwood; fig. bitterness sorrow. …

The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium). …

(a) Forgiveness of sin as pronounced by a priest or by authority of the Church, remission; esp., the sacrament of penance; (b) a document granting remission of sins, an indulgence; (c) the act of……

One who is abstemious, one who practices self-denial. …

Surg. (a) The act or process of cleansing a wound or sore, the removal of pus or other impurities by means of cleansing medicines; (b) a detergent or cleansing property. …

Surg. A cleansing medicine; a preparation, externally applied, which removes pus and other impurities from wounds or sores. …

Avoidance (of sth.), refraining (from sth.), self-denial; abstinence of mete, fasting; ben of abstinence, abstain; don abstinence of, abstain from; maken abstinence, avoid luxury. …

Withdrawal from worldly affairs and interests, asceticism. …

An abridgment or summary of a book or document. …

(a) Lack of harmony, dissonance; (b) an unjust practice. …

Improper or corrupt practice. …

Sexual misconduct. …

(a) An ambush; on abushement, in ambush; (b) troops in ambush. …

(a) Misuse, perversion, abuse; (b) in abusioun, insultingly, abusively; also, in a wicked or unnatural manner. …

Med. A gum made from the juice of green plums or sloes (used as an astringent, a restringent, or a repercussive). …

Accent, modulation. …

(a) The acceptance of something as true or valid; approval (of a book); (b) accepcioun of persones, favoritism, partiality; (c) a condition or stipulation to which one has agreed. …

(a) The act of accepting (an office) or approving (a privilege, etc.); (b) acceptance or approval (of sth.) as true or just or satisfactory; (c) acceptacioun of persones, favoritism, partiality. …

(a) Any attack of illness characterized by fever, but esp. of malarial fever or ague; acces ill, sharp acces, ague; fervent acces, hard acces, hot acces, etc.; (b) an attack of fever; esp. one of the……

(a) An accessory to a crime; (b) that which is subordinate to something else. …

(a) Phil. A non-essential or incidental characteristic, a temporary and variable property of a thing; bi accidence, through a secondary means, indirectly; of accidence, without affecting or involving……

Something that happens or occurs; a fortuitous happening. …

A non-essential quality, an incidental circumstance. …

(a) The deadly sin of Sloth, a disinclination to do anything good; (b) a spell of lethargy or apathy. …

(a) Something done, an act, a deed; accioun of penitence (penaunce), an act of penance; (b) the operation or effect (of heat or fire); the activity or function (of a bodily organ); accioun visif……