(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) Forming an arch; provided with arches; (b) provided with an arcade; (c) her. joined with an arch. …

(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……

(a) To equip oneself with weapons and armor, to arm oneself; don armen, leten armen, to cause (sb.) to arm himself, to have (oneself) armed; (b) refl. to put on one's battle gear, arm oneself; to……

(a) The weapons of a warrior; also, defensive arms and armor; (b) in sg.: a weapon; (c) the tusks of a boar; (d) means of spiritual attack or defence; armes of penaunce, Godes armes, etc. …

The blue stone lapis lazuli; enamel made of powdered lapis lazuli. …

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

(a) A barrier, obstruction, or barricade, esp. outside the gate of a walled city or castle; also, the gate itself; -- often pl.; (b) in names: gate (of a walled city). …

(a) To secure (a gate, a door) with bars or a bolt; to bar, block, or bolt; barren to; (b) to lock (a room); (c) to lock (sb.) up. …

(a) Cook. Decorated with strips of metal foil; (b) Her. divided equally by horizontal stripes of two alternating colors; also as noun: blazon so constituted. …

(a) A walking stick, staff; (b) fig. a blow with such a stick. …

Her. Having a crenelated edge. …

(a) Beaklike, hooked; (b) her. having a beak (of a specified color). …

(a) A fetter, shackle, chain; also fig.; (b) a band or strap of metal, a hoop, clamp, fastening; (c) a circlet or fillet to confine the hair; (d) a cord for tying or fastening; a bandage, rope, withy……

(a) Ornamented with bands or stripes; (b) her. having a diagonal stripe, bendy. …

(a) A narrow bandage; (b) an ornamental band or stripe; (c) her. a narrow diagonal stripe, a bendlet; (d) a cord or shackle. …

(a) To wrap or tie (sth.); blindfold; set (jewels); (b) to provide (sth.) with stripes or borders, adorn or border (with sth.); (c) her. to provide (a shield) with a diagonal stripe; ppl. bended……

Her. Having a diagonal stripe, bendy. …

Her. Traversed by narrow horizontal stripes, barruly. …

Her. Strewn with gold disks or bezants; besaunte (of) gold. …

Her. Strewn with 'billets' (small rectangular figures); billetty. …

(a) The color black, a black or dark color; (b) her. sable; (c) (the) broun and (the) blak, persons of all kinds, everyone. …

(a) Of a black color, black; (b) blak and blo, black and livid, black and blue [see blo adj.]; blak or whit, black or white, of any color or kind; blak as col (blacche, croue, inde, molde, pich, slo),……

(a) Blue; esp., sky-blue, azure; (b) blue-violet, hyacinthine; deep blue-purple, indigo-blue; dark; as bleu as inde; (c) bleu purpre, bleu violet, bright bleu, dep bleu, inde bleu, violet bleu; (d) as……

(a) A bull; fre bole, a bull free to roam with the herd [see Homans Eng.Villagers 61-3]; (b) a steer or bullock. …

Something used for tying, binding, wrapping, fastening, joining: (a) a cord, string (also fig.); a strap, halter, leash; a bowstring; (b) a twist of straw; a tendril; (c) a bandage or wrapping; (d) a……

(a) An uncastrated male swine (either wild or domesticated); (b) bores brain, brain of a boar used medicinally; bor(es grece, fat of a boar; bores herte, a bold or fierce heart; bor(es tusk, one of……

(a) Edge, side, brink, margin; boundary (of a city or country); (b) a district lying along the boundary of a country, a border region; (c) an ornamental border along the edge of a dish, garment……

(a) To provide (sth.) with an ornamental border; borduren abouten, with; (b) her. to provide (a shield) with a bordure. …

Her. Of a cross or crosslet: having each arm ending in a trefoil, botonée. …

(a) A leather bag; (b) her. representation of two bags hung from a yoke, a bouget. …

(a) A leather bag; water bouge, a leather bottle for water; (b) her. a representation of two bags hung from a yoke, a bouget; (c) bouge maker, one who makes leather bags. …

(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. …

(a) The head or leader (of an organization); ruler, governor, administrator, commander, chief officer, chief; chef of clergie, high priest; chef of holi chirche; etc.; (b) the (chief) seat (of a……

(a) A call uttered in chess when the opponent's king (or another important figure) is under attack: check!, guard!; (b) fig. halt! …

Her. Checkered, checky. …

(a) Her. A charge or device in the shape of an inverted V, chevron; (b) a design of that shape. …

(a) The male of the common domestic fowl: cock, rooster; cok chike(n, ?a young cock; cok tord, a cock's excrement; (b) the male of other birds; culver cok; fesaunt cok; mor cok (q.v.); po cok (q.v.)……

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) A comb for dressing the hair; (b) an ornamental comb for keeping the hair in place; a comli under combe, a fair lady; (c) her. the figure of a comb as a charge. …

Her. Poised for combat. …

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

(a) Anat. A rib; fals coste, false rib; (b) the side of the body, flank; the side of a building; the face of a solid figure; (c) her. cotise. …

Against (in position, motion, direction), opposite, counter-; ?back, rear (as opposed to front, forward); countre- filet, some kind of ribbon for the head or headdress; countre- frount, countre-……

The moon's shape in the first or last quarter, a crescent. …

(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……

Her. A cross with each arm recrossed by a small piece at right angles, a cross crosslet. …

(a) A small cross; a cruciform reliquary; (b) her. a cross crosslet; (c) crosselet wise, shaped like a cross crosslet. …

(a) A dance of any kind (i.e. of a group, a couple, or an individual performer); (b) a group of dancers; (c) her. a picture of a dance. …

(a) A half (of a certain measure or unit); (b) a Scottish gold coin [see quots.]; (c) her. half-and-half, party. …

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

(a) To take one's leave, go away, depart; departen awei; (b) departen fro (awei fro, from, out of), to go away from (sb. or sth., a place); departen from, retreat from (foes); fig. departen from lif,……

Her. Extending downwards. …

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

(a) To cut off the members or limbs of (a person, an animal); tear (sb.) limb from limb, dismember; dismembren asondre, dismembren joint fro joint, dismembren lim and lith, dismembren on peces; (b) to……

To unfurl, raise, or display (a banner, a pennon); also fig. …

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

(a) Astron. Not at right angle to the horizon, obliquely; (b) her. (divided) diagonally; 'per bend' or 'per bend sinister'. …

Her. Diagonal, 'bendwise'. …

(a) To make notches, dents, or indentations in (something); give (something) a toothed, serrate, or jagged character or appearance; (b) fig. heckle. …

Her. Lying down, but with the head raised; couchant. …

Her. Having an edge or border consisting of tapering points; engrailed. …

Her. A manner of dividing a shield into two parts, such that a triangular portion is in one color and the remainder of the field in a different color. [Apparently equiv. to party per chevron in MnE……

Her. Athwart. …

The European ermine Mustela erminea. …

(a) Made of ermine fur; (b) her. having the fur ermine, consisting of white with black spots. …

Her. Having the fur ermines, consisting of black with white spots (instead of black on white); -- also as noun. …

Her. Having ermine spots (in quot., white spots on black). …

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) Relatively flat open country; a plain; feld and wode(s; feld place, a plain; (b) feld hath eie(n (sight), wode hath ere(s; (c) feld of Damask, feld Damascene, the plain on which Adam was said to……

Her. A charge made to resemble the ironwork at the center of a millstone [i.e. two semicircular pieces, placed convex to convex, bound together by two parallel bands so as to leave a square opening at……

Her. A single broad horizontal stripe across the middle of the field, a fesse; also, one of two or three horizontal stripes, a bar. …

Her. A type of subordinary: a more or less lentiform space at either side of a shield of arms (bounded by the outer rim and by a segment of a circle intersecting the rim); a flanch, a flasque. …

(a) Of a blossom: to open; of a plant: to bloom, blossom; of a field, etc.: to become full of flowers; (b) of wine: transl. L flavescit, to turn golden. …

Her. Ornamented with fleurs-de-lis, flory, fleury. …

Her. Divided, forked. …

Her. Shaped, moulded; cros forme, a cross whose arms are thick at the extremities and tapering inward to the point of juncture. …

(a) An ornament, a decorative device, an ornamental design or border; (b) an ornamental netlike covering for the hair; a headband or diadem. …

(a) To adorn or decorate (something), to ornament (with an inlay of gold or precious stones), to interweave (a garment with gold thread, etc.); (b) fretted ful (all) of, thickly set with (gems, etc.)……

Her. A bearing in the form of an elongated lozenge, a fusil. …

Her. Of an ordinary: composed of fusils. …

(a) A sharp-pointed metal spike; (b) a sharp-pointed stick used for driving oxen etc.; a goad; (c) gad nail, some kind of nail or spike. …

(a) A bundle of brass rods; (b) her. a representation of a sheaf of wheat or a bunch of cumin. …

(a) Twins; (b) the constellation Gemini; (c) her. barrulets arranged in pairs. …

Her. Of a shield or the field of a coat of arms: divided into gyrons or triangular sections, gyronny. …

Her. Lying down, couchant. …

Her. Guienne, the King-of-Arms having jurisdiction over the province of Guienne. …

Her. Divided into sections of alternate colors, componé, gobony. …

(a) The metal gold; of gold, consisting of gold, made of gold; (b) gold and silver, etc.; (c) clene gold, cler gold, fin gold, pure gold, refined gold; parti gold, gold with considerable alloy; red……

(a) Made of gold, golden; (b) gold foil, gold foil; (c) gold ring, a gold ring; in prov.: gold ring in a soues (swines) nose. …

Her. The tincture gules, red; red goules; also, gules-tinctured, gules-depicted. …

(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. …

Her. Engrailed, having an edge or border consisting of a series of cusps. …

Her. Engrailed. …

Her. [According to OED:] 'Of a field: Composed equally of a metal and a colour.' …

(a) Of a person, animal, the body, part of the body: healthy, cured, healed, free from disease or defect; also fig.; maken hol, to heal (sb.); (b) hol and fere (quert, sound), heil (herti, strong) and……

(a) Nearby, adjacent, touching; joinant to, adjacent to (sth.), abutting upon; (b) her. of charges: connected, conjoined. …

(a) The aggregate of inherent qualities or properties of persons, animals, plants, elements, medicines, etc.; essential character; the nature of emotions, attributes, and the like; after the fleshes……

(a) A dangling strip of cloth or ribbon used as an ornament in dress; a tab, band; (b) a strip of parchment or paper appended to a document to contain supplementary matter; fig. a corollary; (c) a……

(a) Her. Lancaster, a King-of-Arms having at various times jurisdiction over the province of the north; one of the chief heralds of England; Lancaster king of armes; (b) Lancaster sword, a sword……