Phil., physiol., med., alch.: (a) To change, modify, transform; alteraten to (sth.); (b) to change for the worse; affect adversely; deteriorate; (c) to change for the better; affect beneficially……

(a) To move or proceed upward; ascend, climb, mount, soar; ascenden up(ward); board (a ship); light (upon sb.); (b) to ascend (a hill); rise to (the heavens); also, lift up, raise [quot. a1450]……

(a) Physiol. To assimilate; (b) ben assimilat, be similar (to sth.), resemble. …

Of a person: (a) to compel or force (sb. to do sth.), make (sb. do sth.); also, oblige, induce; (b) constreinen herte, constreinen wil, to exert pressure or compulsion on (someone's) heart or will……

Of physical agents: (a) of fire: to reduce (sth.) to ashes, consume, destroy; also fig.; (b) of heat: to dispel moisture; consumen awei; hence also, destroy life, reduce a corpse (to bones); (c) of……

(a) To digest (food, drink); carry on digestive processes; defien with teth, masticate; god to defien, beneficial to digestion; ppl. defiing, promoting digestion, digestible; (b) to be digested; (c)……

(a) To digest (food, drink); carry on digestive processes; (b) to make (one's stomach) digest; (c) of wine: to cause (food) to be digested; (d) of plants: to transform and assimilate (fluids). …

(a) To break up or dissolve (a solid); dissolven to (into), reduce (a solid) to (a liquid), liquify; (b) of a solid: to break up or melt; of dew: evaporate; of a cloud: to break up, vanish; -- also……

(a) To kindle or light (something), set (something) on fire; (b) to be aflame. …

(a) To inhabit, or live in (a place);--freq. pass.; (b) fig. dwell. …

(a) To rebel, disobey; oppose (God, the spirit, etc.); repugnen ayen (to), oppose (God, a law, sin, etc.); ppl. repugninge, rebellious, adverse, hostile; (b) to make resistance (to sth.); ppl. repugni……

To alter; alter (sth.) in form or nature by the application of some physical process or force such as heat, moisture, etc.: (a) to diminish, dissolve, lose substance; break (sth.) down into its……

(a) To isolate (sb.), segregate, quarantine; also, refl. withdraw, separate oneself; (b) physiol. to separate out (a humor), remove. …

(a) To remove (sth.); also, quarantine (sb.), isolate; sequestren to, put (sth.) aside for the use of (sb.); (b) sequestren from, to keep (sth.) apart from (sb.); distinguish (sth.) from (sth.)……

(a) To be mixed (with sth.); combine (ingredients), blend (a mixture of ingredients); also, be mixed with (sth.) [quot. c1400 Why werre]; tempren (al) togeder, tempren up; (b) tempren with, to mix……

(a) To transform the appearance of (sb.); physiol. alter the color of (sth.); also, work a change in color [last quot.]; (b) to change (sb. into sth. else), metamorphose; (c) alch. to change (one……

(a) To become diffused in the air, vaporize, evaporate; also, fig. disperse, spread out [last quot.]; vapouren oute; ben vapoured oute; ppl. vapouring, tending to evaporate (b) to cause (sth.) to……