(a) An administrator in charge of a county, a sheriff; also, ?a lord’s deputy in charge of a domain [quot. c1460] (b) a nobleman ranking between an earl and a baron, a viscount;—sometimes used as……

Visual; visife pouere, the faculty of sight, vision. …

A kind of bottle or vessel. …

A human face. …

(a) That which is necessary to sustain life, food; (b) pl. items of food or drink, comestibles; (c) pl. produce of the land, food crops. …

Physiol. (a) Of the humor bile: mixed with thick phlegm so as to be the color and consistency of egg yolk; vitellin colre, colre vitellin, a variety of bile resulting from its mixture with thick……

Glassy, clear, transparent. …

Converted into a glassy substance by exposure to heat, vitrified. …

Of pottery: given a glassy surface, glazed. …

The vitreous coating on glazed pottery, glaze. …

(a) Any of certain glassy mineral salts of sulfuric acid used esp. in alchemy or medicine, vitriol;—also coll.; also, sulfuric acid [quot. a1475 Bk.Quint., 1st]; ?also, a similar substance useful for……

(a) A professional pleader in civil or ecclesiastical courts of law, an advocate; also fig. [last quot.]; one skilled in law, a lawyer; also, a legal representative of the crown (b) one who pleads……

A medicinal plant, prob. of the genus Convolvulus, Hedera, or Lonicera. …

Volition; of voluntari, voluntarily. …

Sensual pleasure, voluptuous enjoyment; indulgence in or devotion to sensual gratification, esp. sexual gratification; also, fig. & in fig. context; also, an occasion or instance of sensual……

= lunarie n.(2). …

The native or common language of a nation, the vernacular. …

(a) A pledge, guarantee, surety; winter wage, a foretaste of winter, the promise of winter’s approach; holden in wage, to hold (sth.) hostage; (b) a promise or pledge to meet in battle. …

(a) To offer surety (for sb. that he will not do sth.), guarantee;—also refl.; also, ?offer security or certainty [2nd quot.] (b) to give (sth.) as a pledge or as surety; also, pay (a ransom,……

The followers of the Lyons merchant Peter Waldo, who formed themselves into a sect declared heretical by the Church in 1184, Waldensians. …