(a) The action of singing or making music; harmonious sounds, song, music; (b) the combining of simultaneous musical notes to form chords; harmony; (c) a song, a musical composition; (d) the music of……

To make (a medicine) aromatic or fragrant; to perfume (the mouth, breath, etc.). …

A grappling hook; also used fig. of amber. …

A harpy; fig. a rapacious person [quot. c1475]. …

Raising (of the voice). …

(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'. …

(a) A blood vessel of the arterial system. [According to Galen, whose views were generally accepted in the Middle Ages, the blood circulated in two separate systems, the venous and the arterial. The……

(a) The star Arcturus (in Boötes); (b) the constellation Boötes. …

A medicinal plant [see affodil]. …

Sanctuary, asylum. …

An asterisk. …

A gem or precious stone: ?cat's-eye. …

Some gem or precious stone, perh. the star-sapphire or the moonstone. …

The science of astronomy together with the pseudo-science of astrology, as developed by the Greeks and the Arabs. [The observation of celestial bodies and their movements and configurations, of their……

Athlete. …

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

A gentle breeze. …

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

The god Bacchus; also, wine; yift of Bachus, wine. …

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