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41. amirāl n.

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A prince or emir under the Sultan; any Saracen lord or chieftain; also, any heathen ruler or commander.

42. amit n.

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A Eucharistic vestment: amice [a linen scarf worn over the head and the shoulders].

43. Arabī n. & adj.

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(a) Arabia; Fenix of Arabi; (b) an Arab; (c) the Arabic language; (d) an Arabian horse; (e) gomme (of) Arabi, gum Arabic.

44. arabot n.

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A callus (forming around a fractured bone).

45. argālia n.

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A urethral catheter.

46. arin n.

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Astron. centre arin q.v. in centre n., 7.(b).

47. aroboth n.

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A substance exuded around the fragments of a broken bone, the callus.

48. assek n.

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Mercury.

49. atazīr n.

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Planetary influence, or a planet as exerting influence.

50. atinkār n.

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Crude borax, tincal.

51. attabī n.

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A heavy costly cloth (imported from the Near East).

52. aufin, -en n.

Additional spellings: aufen, alfen, alphen
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(a) Chess Elephant (the piece now called bishop); (b) used contemptuously of a person; (c) ?rubbish.

53. augrīm n.

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(a) The practice of numbering or computing with Arabic numerals; [littera de] augrim, an Arabic numeral; (b) augrimes abece, algorism's ABC's, the Arabic numerals; augrim stone, a stone or counter…

54. aumbre, -er n.

Additional spellings: aumber, aunber
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Ambergris, or a perfume made of it; grei aumbre, aumbre oriental.

55. azimūt(z n.

Additional spellings: azimutz
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(a) One of twenty-four arcs extending from the zenith to the horizon and meeting the horizon at right angles; the part of an astrolabe representing such an arc; (b) a section of the horizon between…

56. azoc, azogo n.

Additional spellings: azogo
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Alch. Mercury, quicksilver.

57. bāleis n.(1)

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A rose-red variety of spinel; a balas ruby; rubetus baleis [cp. French rubi balais].

58. barbachī n. (plural)

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The seminal ducts.

59. basē̆n n.

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Brown leather made from sheepskin.

60. bēn n.

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(a) Some species of Moringa; oil of ben, a medicinal oil made from this tree; (b) [?a different word, perhaps Latin been (Persian bahman), 'behen root, white or red' ] apparently identified with one…