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

Phil., physiol., med., alch.: (a) Change, transformation, transmutation; (b) change for the worse, deterioration; evel alteracioun; ill effect or result; (c) change for the better, amelioration……

Logic & ethics A prior assumption or principle, a premise; antecedent trouth; antecedent ded, a preceding act as causing a later act. …

Med. & alch. Antimony. …

Med. (a) The action or property of drawing (diseased matter) to the surface; (b) contraction, extraction. …

Med. Bulimia. …

Alch. & med. (a) To reduce (sth.) to powder by heating; (b) to change the nature of (sth.) by heating in a certain way. …

Med. (a) Of a remedy or a diet: producing heat in the body, warming; (b) a medicine which increases heat. …

Med. (a) A clyster, enema; any medicinal liquid administered through the rectum; (b) the instrument for injecting such liquids, a sort of syringe. …

(a) Med. & surg. A medicine or ointment that prevents the growth or spread of disease, venom, humors, etc. [cp. defensif medecine]; (b) an ointment that preserves corpses. …

(a) Of weapons, armor: defensive; (b) med. & surg. of a bandage: preventing the spread of pus or other fluids; of a medicine or ointments: preventing the growth or spread of disease, preventive……

Med. In names of pharmaceutical preparations, or drugs, usually indicating that the herb or the like which follows is the chief ingredient: (a) dia- bardich, some kind of drug; dia- borago, a drug……

Med. A lead plaster containing various plant extracts; 'plaster containing mucilages (in some recipes also juices) extracted from plants, litharge (lead monoxide), and olive oil.' [Norri]; diaquiloun……

(a) Med. A diseased condition of the body, or its parts, caused by an unfavorable combination of the humors; (b) fig. disharmony, disorder. …

Physiol. To upset the proper balance of the humors or qualities. …

Med. A syringe or douche for introducing curative fumes or liquids. …

(a) To gather, collect, or acquire (something) in large quantity or numbers; (b) to accumulate or buy (goods) in such quantity as to cause scarcity, to forestall (the market), to corner (a commodity……

(a) Purpose or intention; aim or object; reason (for doing something); (b) of entente, intentionally, deliberately, voluntarily; double of entente, ?shifty; (c) for, in, til, to, with (the) entente……

Med. A morbid growth or excrescence. …

(a) To put (something) into words, to describe or set forth; to state, declare, or report; to relate (events), to tell (a story); expressen trouth, give a true account, tell the truth; (b) to give……