(a) Treatment with heat or burning, calcination of a substance; (b) surg. cauterization; (c) phys. the corruption of bodily humors, ulcers, etc., by heat; the process by which humors, etc., become adu……

The observance of proper measure or the 'golden mean'; moderation, temperateness. …

(a) The act or process of joining, combining, or uniting two or more things; the fact of being joined or united, a union; (b) sexual union or intercourse; (c) a juncture or joint. …

(a) Preparation, planning, arranging; also, a plan or arrangement; taken disposicioun, to make arrangements; (b) construction or execution according to a plan; building (of a city); structure (of the……

(a) Disagreement in sentiment or opinion; esp., overt dissension, quarreling, civil strife; maken (meven, setten)dissencioun; fallen at (upon) dissencioun, to start to quarrel; (b) a disagreement……

(a) Act of creating or making, creation, production; (b) fig. creator. …

(a) A step in a stairway or flight of steps; also, a flight of steps; song (canticle) of gres, one of the Gradual Psalms; gre bi gre, from gre to gre, step by step; (b) a rung of a ladder; also fig.……

(a) Control, dominance, rulership; geten maistri unto, to grant (the kingship) to (sb.); haven maistri; (b) preeminence, status, prestige; (c) authority, warrant; (d) the upper hand, victory in a……

(a) Moisture, wetness; something moist or wet; the moist part of something; dampness, humidity; grutti moistur, mud; (b) of trees and plants: the moistness, wetness; juiciness; sap; (c) a bodily……

(a) Character, nature, state, or condition; an inherent attribute; innere qualite, ?inner state; [quot.: Barth., last, may belong with sense 3.(a)]; outre qualite, outer state; qualite of the colour……

(a) Release from duty or obligation; freeing of captives; Bibl. dai of remissioun, a holiday from work; yer of remissioun, a Jubilee year; also, a Sabbatical year; don (maken) remissioun, to grant……