A medicinal root; ?turmeric. …

(a) An interpreter who serves as a guide; (b) a Gymnosophist. …

A name for a difficult proposition in Euclid; a puzzle, dilemma; at dulcarnoun, at one's wit's end. [In quot. Pandarus confuses dulcarnon, usually applied to the 47th proposition of the first book……

(a) The effective agent in the alchemical production of gold and silver, a substance of transmutative power, the philosopher's stone; also, fig.; (b) the product of transmutation; a metal, ?brass or……

A section (of Avicenna's Canon). …

See quots. …

The wood of the Venetian sumac, used for dyeing yellow. …

The roots of various plants of the genera Alpinia (esp. A. galanga or A. officinarum), Kæmpferia (esp. K. galanga), Aristolochia (esp. A. rotunda), and Cyperus (esp. C. longus); also, any of these……

?Jasmine. …

The genet Genetta genetta; the fur of a genet. …

A small Spanish horse, a jennet. …

A giraffe. …

Surg. The jugular veins. …

The starred lizard (Agama stellio), hardim. …

(a) A game of chance played with dice; playing at hazard; table hasard, a table on which hazard is played; leien to (setten at) hasard, to risk (sth.), gamble (sth.) away; pleien at hasard; (b) chek……

A kind of Moslem fanatic [cp. MnE assassin]. …

A jar, a liquid measure smaller than a barrel. …

A syrup made of sugar and water and used by itself or with other ingredients for medicinal purposes. …

A loose-fitting jacket or smock. …

A tight tunic of varying length, often emblazoned, worn over (?or under) armor; also some kind of tunic resembling a jupon. …