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21. alkanne(t n.

Additional spellings: alkannet
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The plant alkanet Alkanna tinctoria or its root [used as a styptic and for coloring]. …

22. alkarad n.

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The ankle-bone or astragalus. …

23. alkarōn n.

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The Koran. …

24. alkenkenǧi n.

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The winter cherry (Physalis alkekengi). …

25. alketrān n.

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Mineral pitch, native asphalt. …

26. alkibrīt n.

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Sulphur. …

27. allidātha n.

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A revolving rule, or index, attached to the back of the astrolabe. …

28. Almaǧeste n.

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The name given to the great astronomical treatise of Ptolemy; also applied to other astron. works. …

29. Almarēth n.

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The star Arcturus. …

30. almenāk n.

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A set of astronomical tables. …

31. almicanteras n.

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Small circles of the celestial sphere parallel to the horizon, parallels of altitude; on the astrolabe: circles marked on the plate under the rete indicating such parallels. …

32. almurī n.

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A pointer on the rete of the astrolabe. …

33. Alphēta n.

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The star Alphecca, or Gemma (in Corona Borealis). …

34. alsephur n.

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See quot. …

35. alutel n.

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A vessel used in sublimation and distillation, aludel. …

36. amirāl n.

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A prince or emir under the Sultan; any Saracen lord or chieftain; also, any heathen ruler or commander. …

37. amit n.

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A Eucharistic vestment: amice [a linen scarf worn over the head and the shoulders]. …

38. arabot n.

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A callus (forming around a fractured bone). …

39. argālia n.

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A urethral catheter. …

40. aroboth n.

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A substance exuded around the fragments of a broken bone, the callus. …

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