Middle English Dictionary Entry

vulcān(e n.
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1.
(a) A vent in the earth’s crust from which molten rock, fire, steam, etc. are released, a volcano; (b) a name applied to the Aeolian or the Lipari Islands; ile of ~, prob. the island of Volcano in the Aeolians.