Abacus, the instrument, and the art of calculating with it. …

(a) The depths of the earth or the sea; (b) the primordial chaos, amorphous matter; (c) hell. …

The aorta. …

A precious stone, reputed to hold heat for 7 days. …

Med. A gum made from the juice of green plums or sloes (used as an astringent, a restringent, or a repercussive). …

(a) The deadly sin of Sloth, a disinclination to do anything good; (b) a spell of lethargy or apathy. …

A cleric who has taken the highest of the four minor orders, an acolyte; also, the order itself. …

See quot. …

The root of the plant Iris pseudacorus. …

(a) A kind of precious stone; diamond; (b) adamant; fig. something indestructible and enduring, something impenetrable. …

?Adam's deed; ?sinful Adam. …

A fabulous tree. …

Divination by air, aeromancy. …

A kind of fungus used medicinally; prob., Polyporus officinalis. …

(a) The Hagiographa of Hebrew Scripture (comprising the Psalms, Proverbs, Daniel, etc.), as distinct from the Laws and the Prophets; (b) Holy Scripture. …

Either of two plants: a Mediterranean shrub (Vitex agnus-castus), traditionally regarded as a preservative of chastity; a species of St.-John's-wort (Hypericum androsaemum), used as a medicinal……

(a) Anguish, agony; a fit of anguish; (b) death throes; the agony of Jesus in Gethsemane. …

See quot. …

The gaseous substance surrounding the Earth; air, the atmosphere. [In ancient cosmology, the perisphere of air was said to be surrounded by the perisphere of fire. The perisphere of air was regarded……

Sengreen, sedum. …

(a) The stone alabaster; (b) an alabaster container for chrism or ointment; (c) a medicament containing powdered alabaster. …

The fabulous bird halcyon. …

Barley meal. …

The sea eagle or fish hawk [for other medieval opinions see first quot.]. …

Theol. One of the four methods or levels in the interpretation of Holy Writ [i.e. the literal (temporal), spiritual (allegorical), moralizing (tropological), and mystical (anagogical)]: spiritual……

To interpret (sth.) in the spiritual sense. …

(a) Falling of the hair; (b) a form of leprosy. …

The name given to the great astronomical treatise of Ptolemy; also applied to other astron. works. …

(a) Anything given to relieve those in poverty or distress, any charitable gift or offering, alms; an allotment of alms; eten almes, be dependent on alms; gan on almes, liven bi, of almes, live on……

Aloe: (a) the tree; (b) the juice or resin of the tree, aloes; (c) med. the drug aloes; aloe caballinum (cicotrine, epatik). …

(a) Alpha, the first letter of the Greek alphabet; (b) alpha used as the numeral 1; (c) aleph, the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. …

The marsh mallow Althaea officinalis. …

Wood-nymphs. …

Marjoram. …

Amethyst; amatist colour, amatist ston. …

The Amazons. …

A liquid measure (of varying capacity). …

A plant of the genus Ammi; bishop's-weed. …

Crushed hulled wheat; grits, starch. …

A fabled two-headed snake [see quot.]. …

Ambiguous. …

An ambiguity. …

Amphitheater. …

(a) An amphora; (b) a flask or flagon; (c) a liquid measure [of varying capacity]. …

Pharm. In the same amount. …

The marking nut Semecarpus anacardium; mel anacardi, oleum anacardium, theodoricon anacardin. …

See quot. …

The highest of the four levels of Biblical exegesis; highest or mystical interpretation or meaning. …

Of Biblical exegesis: highest or mystical (interpretation or meaning). …

A disorder regarded as a form of epilepsy [see epilencie]. …

A form of dropsy; anasarca. …

The science of anatomy; knowledge of the structure and the functioning of the human body in all its parts; grosse anatomie. [See definition in Lanfranc 1/9.] …

A recluse or hermit. …

A maker of icons, etc. …

Hermaphrodite. …

Pyrites. …

A Eurasian St. John's-wort (Hypericum androsaemum). …

(a) Dill Anethum graveolens; anet sed; (b) wilde anet, hog's fennel Peucedanum officinale. …

Arterial dilation, aneurism. …

A precious stone of some kind; ?the diamond. …

(a) A ship's anchor; casten, laien, senden out anker; drauen up, halen, highen, pullen up, taken up, weien (up) anker; riden at, bi, on anker; (b) a weight; (c) a fastening device, a mooring. …

A recluse. …

The antagonist of Christ who was predicted to come before Doomsday, gather a host to fight Christ and his followers, kill Enoch and Elias, devastate the world, and then succumb before Christ. [First……

(a) An antelope or a representation of it, as in a coat of arms; (b) the bearer of such a coat of arms [here Henry IV]; (c) see quot. …

A musical composition based upon a scriptural text, sung in the Church Offices before each psalm and often repeated after the psalm, or after each verse of the psalm [see Karl Young, The Drama of the……

Med. The anthers or the pollen of the rose, used as a stiptic. …

In several words taken from ML, as anti-crist, anti-dotarie, anti-phonere, anti-pope. …

Antipodes. …

Blood-letting performed on the corresponding opposite side of the body. …

= antispasis. …

Gram. The substitution of one case for another. …

A malignant boil or growth; ?also, the eruption of syphilis [quot.Lanfranc]. …

A person who eats human flesh, cannibal. …

A religious sect [see quot.]. …

(a) The Apocalypse [the last book of the New Testament]; (b) the vision or revelation described there. …

Of unknown authorship or doubtful authenticity, or so regarded by the Church; not authentic, apocryphal; an apocryphon. …

A formal defense, apology. …

Apoplexy; litel apoplexie, lesse apoplexie, epilepsy. …

Renunciation, abandonment, violation, or neglect of an established religious faith or one of its doctrines; fallen in apostasie, walken in apostasie. …

Any morbid swelling or inflammation in any part of the body, external or internal. [a1400 Lanfranc & c1425 Arderne distinguish it from cankre & festre.] …

One of the Twelve Apostles of Christ; apostles twelve; also, a missionary or evangelist of the early Church, such as St. Paul; apostle of Engelonde; apostle of hethen men; apostolene prince. …

An antiseptic ointment prepared in various ways (orig. of 12 ingredients); Apostles' ointment. …

A decoction. …

Destroyer (a Greek epithet of the Devil). …

A precious stone, prob. a sapphire. …

The master of the feast at Cana in Galilee (John 2.1-10); -- both as common noun and proper name. …

?Hematite. …

A precious stone with magical properties; ?litharge of silver. …

(a) The tartar produced by fermentation of wine, crude potassium bitartrate; (b) poudre of argoil, powdered tartar; prob. also, sal tartar; (c) salt argoil, potassium carbonate made by heating tartar……

A member of the Athenian court which met on the Areopagus, Areopagite. …

Rule by the virtuous, aristocracy; usen aristogracie. …

(a) The action of singing or making music; harmonious sounds, song, music; (b) the combining of simultaneous musical notes to form chords; harmony; (c) a song, a musical composition; (d) the music of……

To make (a medicine) aromatic or fragrant; to perfume (the mouth, breath, etc.). …

Cuckoo-pint or wake-robin Arum maculatum. …

A grappling hook; also used fig. of amber. …

A harpy; fig. a rapacious person [quot. c1475]. …

Raising (of the voice). …

(a) The 'art' or 'science' of measuring and calculating, being one of the four disciplines comprised in the quadrivium (along with geometry, astronomy, and music); (b) a treatise on this 'science'. …

(a) A blood vessel of the arterial system. [According to Galen, whose views were generally accepted in the Middle Ages, the blood circulated in two separate systems, the venous and the arterial. The……

Arthritic, rheumatic; arthritis, rheumatism; goute artetik, arthritis, gout. …