(a) Personal name; -- often replacing Nicol in later ME; also, name of a ship; (b) seint Nicholas, St. Nicholas, bishop of Myra in Asia Minor; seint Nicholas chirche, chirche of seint Nicholas, a……

The white water lily Nymphæa alba. …

(a) The seventh Sunday after Easter, the Feast of the Descent of the Holy Ghost, Pentecost, Whitsunday; heigh) feste of pente-cost; (b) the Jewish holiday, fifty days after Passover, celebrating the……

(a) St. Peter; also one of the Epistles of Peter [quot.: PPl.A(1)]; -- also as personal name; seint Peter; seint petres suster, ?a personification of the White Paternoster; (b) feste of seint Peter,……

A philosopher or a scholar. …

(a) A cleric ranking below a bishop and above a deacon; a priest functioning as a parish priest, chaplain, chantry priest, etc.; (b) in combination with other religious types, ranks, and orders: clerk……

(a) One of the Psalms of the Book of Psalms; (b) seien Psalm, to sing a Psalm; also, recite a Psalm; seiere of psalmes, a singer of Psalms; singen Psalm, sing a Psalm; praise (God) with a Psalm; don……

(a) Samson, the name of a biblical Hebrew hero, often used with allusion to his great strength; also, used to imitate drunken snoring [quot.: CT.Pard.]; (b) as surname. …

A plant of the genus Scolymus, perh. the Spanish oyster plant (Scolymus hispanicus). …

Water germander (Teucrium scordium); also [quot.: a1398], an uncultivated member of the genus Allium; ?crow garlic (Allium vineale). …

The plant scarlet pimpernel Anagallis arvensis. …

(a) The digraph th; the letter þ or ð of the alphabet, thorn; (b) an abbrev. for that pron., rel. pron., conj., etc. …

A drug used as an antidote for poisonous animal bites. …

A medicinal plant, prob. of the genus Gladiolus; ?unbranched bur reed (Sparganium emersum). …