(a) A kind of precious stone; diamond; (b) adamant; fig. something indestructible and enduring, something impenetrable. …

(a) Anguish, agony; a fit of anguish; (b) death throes; the agony of Jesus in Gethsemane. …

The gaseous substance surrounding the Earth; air, the atmosphere. [In ancient cosmology, the perisphere of air was said to be surrounded by the perisphere of fire. The perisphere of air was regarded……

Amphitheater. …

(a) An amphora; (b) a flask or flagon; (c) a liquid measure [of varying capacity]. …

A recluse or hermit. …

Arterial dilation, aneurism. …

(a) A ship's anchor; casten, laien, senden out anker; drauen up, halen, highen, pullen up, taken up, weien (up) anker; riden at, bi, on anker; (b) a weight; (c) a fastening device, a mooring. …

One of the Twelve Apostles of Christ; apostles twelve; also, a missionary or evangelist of the early Church, such as St. Paul; apostle of Engelonde; apostle of hethen men; apostolene prince. …

(a) The 'art' or 'science' of measuring and calculating, being one of the four disciplines comprised in the quadrivium (along with geometry, astronomy, and music); (b) a treatise on this 'science'. …

Sanctuary, asylum. …

(a) The smallest unit of time during the Middle Ages [22560 'atoms' to the hour]; (b) the smallest part of a 'substance'. …

(a) Of persons, speech, manner: harsh, severe, stern; (b) rigorously moral, austere; (c) grim, fierce. …

(a) A fabulous serpent whose glance kills, basilisk; (b) alch. the name of a certain substance that transmutes or 'slays' matter, elixir. …

A precious kind of linen or cotton cloth; ?batiste, cambric; also, a garment made of this fabric (as worn by the nobility along with purple); purpur and bis; brightest under bis, fairest to behold. …

(a) Uttered insult or irreverence to God, blasphemy (against God or anything holy; also, against heathen gods); a kind or example of blasphemy; (b) theol. any action, belief, or utterance offering……

(a) The box tree (Buxus sempervirens) or its wood; box tre; box table, a tablet of boxwood (for inscriptions); (b) rendering L sambucus 'elder' erroneously. …

A plant of the borage family: bugloss Anchusa officinalis. …

(a) One of the 'floodgates' of heaven; cataracte of the ether; (b) med. a cataract of the eye. …

A list, register; a calendar of saints; a genealogy of kings. …