(a) Lead, either the metal or the metallic ore; whit led, ?tin; (b) as a type of heaviness; hevi as led, heavy as lead; also, weighed down by sin, grief, sleepiness, etc.; hevier than led, etc.; (c)……

Alch. Impurity in metals. …

(a) = lepre adj.; (b) alch. of metals or minerals: impure; (c) as noun: a leper; coll. lepers; (d) simon (the) leprous, Simon the leper in whose house Christ was anointed by an unidentified woman. …

(a) Smaller in size or spatial extent; maken les, to reduce (sth.) to smaller parts; more and les, greater and smaller; (b) smallest. …

(a) A raising agent in the making of bread; leaven, sourdough; also, bread dough; levain bred, leavened bread; (b) med. & surg. a fermenting substance used in applications to encourage suppuration……

(a) A lion; (b) in comparisons: fers (hardi, wod) as lioun; cruel (real, sterne) as a lioun; strongere than a lioun; proudere (wildere) than the lioun; etc.; (c) in phrases: fers (gredi, grim, lothli,……

(a) The moon; (b) alch. silver. …

Alch. One of the two principal ingredients of the philosophers' stone constituting the female element in the alchemical marriage; another name for the mercury of the philosophers, and hence in some……

(a) A person, a man or woman; (b) erest men, the first men, Adam and Eve; cristen man, ded man, fals man, god man, haveles man, hethen man, ivel man, povre man, riche man, rightwis man, unilered man,……

(a) By means of manual operation; (b) alch. artificially, synthetically. …

(a) The action of marrying; marriage; maken mariage, to enter into marriage, be married; prepare or arrange for marriage; (b) the state or condition of being married; matrimony; wedlock; (c) alliaunce……

(a) The god Mars; Mars the red; also, in asseverations; (b) astron. the planet Mars; (c) alch. the metal iron. …

(a) A medicine, medicament; a medicinal potion or plaster; medicinal formula [quot.: (a1393)]; medicinal property of an herb, etc.; also, a cosmetic potion [quot.: Mandev.(2)]; beren (haven) medicin……

(a) A course of action, method, way; a means of attaining an end; (b) bi mene of, with menes of; bi no (manere of) mene; bi al menes; bi god menes, with great skill; menes and weies; weies and menes……

Alch. = menstrue n., sense (b). …

Anat. (a) Capable of menstruating; (b) menstrual; menstrual blod, blood expelled in menstruation, the menstrual flow; menstrual flux, renninge menstrual, the menstrual flow, esp. when excessive……

(a) Med. & surg. The menstrual flow, menstruation; -- also used in pl.; time of menstrue, a menstrual period; (b) alch. one of three subtle substances used in various alchemical processes. …

(a) The Roman god Mercury; -- in early times identified with the Germanic Woden; (b) the planet Mercury; also, a representation of the planet in an astrological table; (c) a plant; prob. chenopodium……

Alch.?Amalgamated with mercury. …

(a) Something that is neither animal nor vegetable, a mineral; (b) the ore of a metal; (c) alch. one of the three varieties of philosophers' stone; (d) minerals, the De Mineralibus of Albertus Magnus……