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Name Term description
NameAbbot Term description

Senior monk in charge of an abbey in the pre-Reformation, Roman Catholic or Episcopal church

NameAccomptant/accountant Term description

One who arranges and analyses financial accounts for others

NameAdmiral Term description

Senior naval officer, in charge of a fleet

NameAdvocate Term description

A lawyer who is qualified to plead before the higher courts of law (corresponds to a barrister in England)

NameAg. Lab. Term description

Agricultural labourer

NameAgent Term description

Someone acting for someone else in an official, often financial, capacity

NameAgent for the sick and wounded at Gibraltar Term description

Someone acting for someone else in an official, often financial, capacity

NameAide-de-camp Term description

Junior military officer appointed as assistant to more senior officer

NameAlbany herald Term description

Royal messenger, later member of Lyon Court

NameAle seller Term description

One who sells ale and beer to the public for consumption at home

NameAlewife Term description

A woman who sells ale

NameAllakay/allekay Term description

Footman, lackey

NameAllkymist Term description

Alchemist

NameAnchor-smith Term description

One who makes anchors for ships and boats

NameAnnealer Term description

A person who processes metal or glass by heating it in a furnace and then immersing it in a chemical bath

NameAnnuitant Term description

Person who receives an annuity (guaranteed payment made yearly either for life or for a specified number of years)

NameApothecarie/apothecary Term description

Surgeon, druggist, pharmacist

NameApp. Term description

Apprentice

NameApparent Term description

Heir to landed property, who has already succeeded

NameAppearand Term description

Heir to landed property, who has already succeeded

NameApprent Term description

One attached by formal arrangement to (usually) a craftsman to assist him and learn the craft

NameApprentice Term description

One attached by formal arrangement to (usually) a craftsman to assist him and learn the craft

NameAqua-vitae/aquavite/aquavitie maker/aquavitie man Term description

Whisky distiller

NameArch-beddle Term description

Senior church or university officer

NameArchbishop Term description

Senior clergyman in the pre-Reformation, Roman Catholic or Episcopal church, in charge of a province