A governor, ruler; commander, an officer; also, a steward, an overseer. …

(a) A crowd, throng, company, an assembly; also, the assembling or gathering of a crowd; also, a group of things; (b) amid (among(es, in, in middes) presse, among or in a crowd; into presse, in among……

The first of a bishop's candle-bearers; also, fig. with reference to Lucifer, the morning star. …

Gram. Presentation of a summary statement before relating the details. …

A precious stone with magical properties. …

Propolis, a resinous material collected by bees from tree buds and used as a cement in constructing hives; ?also beeswax; ?also the dregs of honey. …

Med. (a) Mixtures of meal, water, oil, etc. used as poultices; pultes cirurgicorum; pultes maturatives, poultices inducing suppuration; (b) as sg.: a poultice. …

Porphyry; marble purpurites, a marble resembling porphyry. …

A mixture of water and vinegar or wine. …

Animal fat, grease, perhaps particularly pork fat. …

(a) 'Fingernail or toenail' [Norri; = ungle n.(1), sense (a)]; (b) 'Growth in eye resembling a finger-nail; cf. e.g. pterygium (triangular patch of hypertrophied tissue extending from conjunctiva to……