Either of two Old World mandrakes (Mandragora vernalis or M. officinarum); also, a part of these plants used in medicine; mandrag lef. …

(a) Hair; (b) feathers, plumage. …

(a) A pill containing a medicament; pille cochie (rasis, a pill containing a purgative; pille fetid, ?a foul-smelling pill; (b) a pellet found in a pigeon's gizzard. …

(a) A natural or man-made depression in the ground, hole, pit, ditch; cave; also fig.; also, an open excavation from which some mineral product is obtained or in which some industrial process is……

A coin 'issued by Rudolf of Diepholt when postulatus [i.e. claimant] of the see of Utrecht or [a] later imitation' [Hanham]. …

(a) A sweet red wine of Mediterranean origin, rumney; romenei (of) modoun, rumney from Modon in the Peloponnesus; (b) a rumney cask. …

(a) To scour, polish; polish or scour (metal, a pot, etc.); furbish (armor); ?also, fig. of a day: be bright and clear [quot.: a1375]; scouren bright (clene, neue), make (sth.) bright (clean, new) by……

(a) A loaf or bun made of fine flour; (b) in surname. …

A shoot, sprout. …

(a) A substance, often liquid in form, made by boiling a mixture of oils or fats and lye, and used for washing and cleansing and in medicine as a cleansing agent, corrosive, etc., soap; also, fig. a……

(a) A female swine, sow; soue swin, swin soue; soue blod (flesh, milk, pappe, tail); (b) a representation of a sow in sculpture; (c) fig. as a symbol of gluttony; (d) soues thistel, = soue-thistel n……

(a) A cavern in a rock, cave; a den; spelunk of thefes, fig. a den of thieves; (b) a burial cave, tomb; double spelunk, a two-chambered tomb, place of double burial. …

?A canopy. …

A large iron nail; -- also coll.; ?also, the act of fastening with a spike [quot. 1431-2]; spiking nail; cok spiking, ?a nail resembling a cockspur; double (gret, gros, middel) spiking. …

(a) A loop or strap on a horse's harness; ?also, some kind of strap for a cart; (b) naut. a loop of rope, hide, or metal used to connect blocks and yards with the ropes in a ship's rigging, a strop……

For all words beginning with sw- from here to the end of this volume [of the print MED], the practice of the MED is to record all variant forms except those beginning with su-; forms with su- are……

(a) A piece of decorative fabric bearing a painted, embroidered, or woven pattern or figures and used variously as a carpet, coverlet, bed or wall hanging, or the like, a tapestry; also fig.; also in……

?One of a pair of boards used to hold a bundle of skins; ?a small piece of fur, a skin. …

(a) A case or cover for a pillow or bedding; (b) the material for making such a case. …

(a) A brick; a masonry tile;—also coll.; brenned tile; clei tile; (b) in related cpds., combs., & phrases: tile of flaundres, flaundres (flaundrish) tile, bricks or tile made in Flanders; tile ston……