The fruit of the common barberry Berberis vulgaris. …

A stone used as an antidote against poison, bezoar. …

Name given to several minerals; prob. borax, malachite, sodium carbonate, verdigris, and possibly others: (a) an ingredient in preparations for soldering metals and for fastening gold leaf; also, a……

In phrases denoting a type of sugar, orig. from Caffa in the Crimea: sugre (de) caffatin. …

The ankle bone, talus. …

(a) The ruler of a Mohammedan country; (b) caliphate; (c) ?a kind of ship. …

A kind of spice. …

Fruit of the carob tree Ceratonia siliqua. …

(a) The plant caraway (Carum carui); sed of carewei; (b) carewei sed, carewei sedes, caraway seed; (c) caraway seed. …

A type of large ship [orig. Spanish or Italian]. …

(a) The plant caraway (Carum carui); (b) caraway seed. …

(a) Camphor; (b) caumfre flour, poudre of caumfre, powdered camphor; oil of caumfre. …

Chess Checkmate! (said to the opponent when his king is cornered); saien chek-mat. …

(a) A set for playing chess, consisting of the chessmen and the board; -- usu. with article, occas. in pl. (as usually in ML); (b) the game of chess; game of the ches; (c) pleien at (the) ches [OF……

A (sleeveless) robe or cloak of some kind, apparently rather costly. …

(a) The arithmetical symbol for naught; (b) fig. something that has no value in itself, but enhances another's value. …

An ore of zinc, cadmia [see calamin]. …

(a) The outer bark of the cork oak; cork bark; (b) the cork oak (Quercus suber); cork tre. …

(a) The plant yielding cotton; (b) raw cotton, cotton fiber, cotton wool; cotton fiber spun into yarn or thread; candle-wicking of cotton; cotoun candel, candles made with cotton wicking; cotoun……

(a) Cloth dyed a deep purplish red with kermes; (b) attrib. & adj. made of such cloth; of a crimson color, crimson. …