AUGER, a Carpenter or Joyner's Tool
To AUGMENT, to increase, to inlarge, or improve.
AUGMENTATION, an Increase, Inlargement, or Improvement.
AUGUR, a Soothsayer, a Diviner, a Foreteller of Things.
AUGUST, grand, majestick.
AUKWARD, unhandy, untoward, ungain.
AUKWARDNESS, Unhandiness, Ungainliness
AULCASTER, a Town in Warwickshire.
AUNT, a Father's or Mother's Sister.
To AVOID, to shun, to escape, to get out of the way of.
AVERDUPOIS, a Weight of Sixteen Ounces to the Pound.
To AVOUCH, to justify, to maintain, to stand to, to assert.
To AVOW, to justify a thing already done.
AVOWABLE, justifiable.
AURORA, the MorningTwilight.
AUSPICIOUS, lucky, prosperous.
AUSTERE, harsh, crabbed, severe.
AUSTERITY, Roughness, Harshness, Severity.
AUTHENTICK, of good Authority, approved, allowed of.
AUTHOR, the Inventor, Contriver, or Maker of any thing; the Writer of a Book, the Head or Ringleader of a Faction.
AUTHORITY, Power, Rule, Government.
To AUTHORISE, to give Power of Authority to, to impower.
AUTUMN, the Season of the Year after Harvest.
AUTUMNAL, belonging to Autumn.
AUXILIARY, helpful, aiding, assisting.
AW, Fear, Reverence, Respect.
AWAY, absent from.
AWFUL, causing an Aw.
AWKWARD, See AUKWARD.
AWL, a sharp pointed Tool.
AX, a sharp Tool belonging to Carpenters
AXIOM, a self-evident Principle.
AXIS, the Axel-free of a Coach or Cart.
AXLE-Tree, a Piece of Wood under a Cart, upon which the Wheels turn.
AXMINSTER, a Town in Devonshire.
To AYL, to be sick, in pain.
AZARIAH, a King of Judah.
AZURE, Sky-colour, or light-blue.
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BAAL, the Name of an Idol.
BAASHA, a King of Israel.
To BABBLE, to chatter, to prate, to talk impertinently.
BABBLE, idle Talk.
A BABBLER, a Prater, a Chatterer, an impertinent fellow.
BABE, an Infant in the Cradle.
BABEL, a Tower built by the Posterity of Noah after the Flood.
BABOON, a large sort of Monkey.
BACHELOR, BATCHELOUR, an unmarried Man.
BACHELOR of Arts, the first Degree taken in the University.
BACK, the hinder part of the Body.
To BACK, to mount, or get on Horse-back, to countenance, to support.
To BACKBITE, to speak ill of behind the Back, to slander.
To BACKSLIDE, to fall from, to revolt.
BACKWARD, behind, unwilling.
BACKWARDNESS, Unwillingness.
BACON, Hogs flesh salted and dried
BAD, evil, naught, hurtful.
BADBURY, a Town in the Country of Dorset.
BADGE, a Mark of Distinction worn by Noblemens Servants, and the Pensioners of Parishes.
A BADGER, a Beast so called.
To BAFFLE, to confound, to disappoint.
BAG, a Sack, Pouch, or Wallet, also a Cow's Udder
BAGGAGE, travelling Furniture, Provision for an Army: Also a Name given to a Woman in ridicule.
BAGNIO, a House for Bathing and Sweating.
BAIL, Security taken for the Appearance of a person arrested.
To BAIL, to be Security for a Person arrested.
BAILABLE, that may be bailed.
BAILIFF, the Maintenance of a Province, to maintain the Peace, and do Justice, also an Officer who arrests Persons for Debt.
BAILYWICK, a Hundred or Mannor.
To BAIT, to entice, to allure, also to set Beasts a Flighting together.
To BAKE, to dress, or roast in an Oven
BALAAM, a Prophet among the Israelites.
BALAK, a King of the Moabites.
BALANCE, a Pair of Scales, an even Weight
To BALANCE, to weigh, to consider, to make an Account even.
BALCONY, a sort of Gallery at the Front of an House.
BALD, without Hair.
BALDERDASH, a confused or jumbled Discourse.
BALDWIN, a proper Name of Men.
BALE, a Pack of any sort of Goods.
BALIOL-College, in the University of Oxford
A BALK, a Path, or small Ridge of Land between two Burrows.
To BALK, to disappoint, to discourage, to neglect.
BALL, any Thing round.
A BALL, a Publick Dancing.
BALLAD, a Song commonly Sung in the Streets.
BALLAST, Sand, Gravel, or Stores, placed at the Bottom of a Ship, to keep her upright.
BALLOT, a little Ball used in Voting.
To BALLOT, to Vote by Balloting.
BALM, the Juice of a Tree Growing in Egypt.
BALSAM, an healing oily Composition, or natural Substance.
BALSAMICK, healing.
BALTICK, the Sea belonging to the Island of Baltia, in the German Ocean.