The transaction of business by a broker; brokerage. …

Surg. A knife-shaped cauterizing instrument. …

A payment made to secure peace, a fine for a breach of the peace; a payment for a favor [quot.Brut]. …

To lubricate (a ligament, etc.), make slippery. …

(a) In phrases: lettres missive(s, lettre missive, missive lettres, official letter(s sent by the king or some other authority conveying a command or commission; (b) ?as noun: a commandment. …

(a) A skin disease characterized by leprous or scurfy eruptions, morphea; a leprous or scurfy eruption; (b) as adj.; (c) blak morphea, a morphea arising from the humor melancholy and characterized by……

(a) The head or skull; pat of the hed, the back of the head; bi pat and bi polle, ?head by head, one by one; rum pat, by my head [Corn.]; (b) in surnames. …

(a) A peach; peches bon, the stone of a peach; peche tre, a peach tree; peche armenie, a variety of peach; (b) a peach tree; (c) as surname. …

A peppery sauce served with meat; peverade sauce. …

?A vessel of volume smaller than the standard quart; ?a vessel of pint volume; quartelet pot, pot quartelet. …

A courier. …

Physiol. The quality of being serous or whey-like. …

(a) The action of maintaining someone in power; (b) surg. a supporting bandage, binding, or similar device used to stabilize a part of the body. …

(a) Fur, prob. that of some species of squirrel, used to make or trim a robe, hood, etc.; also, an article of clothing made from this fur; veir and gris; meni veir [see meni-ver n.]; (b) a weasel. …

Of pottery: given a glassy surface, glazed. …