(a) A ship's anchor; casten, laien, senden out anker; drauen up, halen, highen, pullen up, taken up, weien (up) anker; riden at, bi, on anker; (b) a weight; (c) a fastening device, a mooring. …

A recluse. …

The antagonist of Christ who was predicted to come before Doomsday, gather a host to fight Christ and his followers, kill Enoch and Elias, devastate the world, and then succumb before Christ. [First……

(a) An antelope or a representation of it, as in a coat of arms; (b) the bearer of such a coat of arms [here Henry IV]; (c) see quot. …

A musical composition based upon a scriptural text, sung in the Church Offices before each psalm and often repeated after the psalm, or after each verse of the psalm [see Karl Young, The Drama of the……

Med. The anthers or the pollen of the rose, used as a stiptic. …

In several words taken from ML, as anti-crist, anti-dotarie, anti-phonere, anti-pope. …

Antipodes. …

Blood-letting performed on the corresponding opposite side of the body. …

= antispasis. …

Gram. The substitution of one case for another. …

A malignant boil or growth; ?also, the eruption of syphilis [quot.Lanfranc]. …

A person who eats human flesh, cannibal. …

A religious sect [see quot.]. …

(a) The Apocalypse [the last book of the New Testament]; (b) the vision or revelation described there. …

Of unknown authorship or doubtful authenticity, or so regarded by the Church; not authentic, apocryphal; an apocryphon. …

A formal defense, apology. …

Apoplexy; litel apoplexie, lesse apoplexie, epilepsy. …

Renunciation, abandonment, violation, or neglect of an established religious faith or one of its doctrines; fallen in apostasie, walken in apostasie. …

Any morbid swelling or inflammation in any part of the body, external or internal. [a1400 Lanfranc & c1425 Arderne distinguish it from cankre & festre.] …