(a) a small ring; (b) Med. and anat. the 'cartilage of the windpipe' [Norri]; (c) her. a cadency mark in the shape of a ring. …

(a) Silver, silver coin; cash (specifying a cash price as opposed to a discounted price or price paid in installments); (b) her. silver-colored, silver-gilt; (c) vif argent, argent vif, [L argentum……

Her. A badge of cognizance, insignia; bagge of armes. …

(a) A piece of open ground, such as a field or meadow; (b) chaump bataile, battlefield; chaump clos, an area set off or enclosed for trial by combat or a tournament; also, single combat. …

Color as an inherent property of matter; uttemest colours, the extreme colors, i.e. white and black; mene (middel) colour, the intermediate colors, i.e. yellow, orange, red, purple, and 'green'……

(a) The plant cumin Cummin cyminum or its aromatic seed; (b) used medicinally; (c) used in cooking; (d) her. …

(a) A cross for crucifixion, a gibbet; (b) the cross of Christ; holi cros; Exaltacioun of the cros, a feast, Sept. 14; feste of the holi cros, feast of the Invention of the Cross, May 3; (c) winnen……

(a) Notched, serrate; (b) barbed; (c) inlaid; (d) her. indented; (e) of a deed: made in the manner of an indenture. …

The fact of difference in kind; lack of identity, unlikeness, dissimilarity, diversity: (a) without constr.; (b) with prep. phr.; (c) with gen. …

Her. Of a fish: Upright (in pale) with the head at the top (in chief), as if rising to the surface for air; hauriant. …

Of persons, animals (specif., the fox, lapwing), etc.: given to the practice of deception; deceitful, full of guile; also, guilty of breach of trust, faithless, disloyal, perfidious, treacherous; fals……

(a) A drop of liquid; (b) a fragrant resin, stacte, ?a kind of myrrh; (c) her. a drop-shaped figure in a coat of arms, a goutte. …

(a) A lizard; esp. the stellion; (b) ?a crocodile, ?a serpent; (c) a dagger, dirk; ?also, the point of a weapon, sharp point; (d) her. a representation of a lizard, (?) or of a salamander. …

(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,……

Her. Naiant, swimming. …

(a) A stake, pole; a stake for vines; ?also, a protective vertical iron bar for a window [attested only in ML]; (b) a staff for fighting, a quarterstaff; also, a stake or post used as an adversary in……

To construct a paling; enclose (sth.) with a paling; ppl. fenced, fortified, enclosed; palen abouten, raise a paling around (sth.); -- also refl. enclose (oneself) with a paling [quot.: (a1420)]. …

(a) A pointed missile of some kind; an arrow or a dart; (b) the heavy javelin of the Roman infantry; (c) a sharp-pointed surgical cutting instrument, a lancet. …

(a) Purple, dark crimson, or violet; of a cloth or garment: dyed in a purplish or crimson hue, often denoting royalty; also, of a liturgical vestment: denoting a penitential season; (b) purpel pal, a……

(a) A cloth, often of silk, dyed with Tyrian purple or a similar dye; purple fabric, esp. associated with royalty; (b) a garment made from purple cloth; raiment of royal purple; also fig.; usen purpur……