A canopy. …

A feudal lord (in Gascony). …

Naut. A device for hauling up the anchor, etc.; capstan bar, capstan spoke, a capstan bar. …

(a) A kind of glue or size; (b) trickery, a trick or ruse. …

The transaction of business by a broker; brokerage. …

Surg. A knife-shaped cauterizing instrument. …

The apparatus used in distillation; a still. …

The action of locating the planets in their respective houses. …

A judicial single combat, a duel. …

A surgical instrument for raising a depressed portion of bone; also an instrument for pulling teeth. …

Fit to be chosen, desirable. …

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

A small ship or boat of some kind. …

A kind of cosmetic. …

(a) One who acknowledges allegiance to a feudal lord or king; a vassal; (b) a follower of God or any pagan deity; an adherent. …

Med. (a) Of a medicine: able to drive humors down or repel them; (b) as noun: a medicine of this sort. …

(a) A building in which the hounds are kept, a dog house; also, a place in a room for the dog to lie down; kenel dore; (b) a pack of hunting dogs; (c) in surname. …

(a) The dignity or office of a papal legate; legateship; office of legacie of the crois, the office of a legat of the crois [see legat n. (1), sense 1. (b)]; (b) the mission entrusted to an envoy……

(a) Lint made from linen by scraping, etc.; -- esp. as used for dressing wounds; (b) linen sheet or sheets; (c) flax; sed of linet, linseed. …

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

(a) Of actions: pertaining to war; of prowess, fortitude, etc.: exhibited in battle, military; (b) of fortifications, armor, banners, standards: for use in warfare or fighting; (c) of games: warlike……

(a) The sail set amidships in a fore-and-aft direction; mesan seil; (b) mesan mast, the third and aftermost mast of a ship; mesan yerde, the yard, consisting probably of two pieces lashed together, on……

(a) Something that is neither animal nor vegetable, a mineral; (b) the ore of a metal; (c) alch. one of the three varieties of philosophers' stone; (d) minerals, the De Mineralibus of Albertus Magnus……

(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. …

Abnormality, deformity. …

(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……

The martagon or turk's-cap lily (Lilium martagon); ?also, the common purslane (Portulaca oleracea) [quot.: ?c1450 (Add)]. …

Deadly, poisonous; caustic; ?anesthetic. …

Mountainous. …

A sweet wine made from muscat grapes. …

Ornamental dress; adornment. …

Gram. Partitive. …

(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 pilgrimage. …

Acquisition otherwise than by inheritance. …

(a) The science of optics; science of perspectif; (b) a text treating optics, esp. that attributed to Ptolemy; (c) ?a student of optics; (d) a kind of optical instrument, ?a magic glass revealing……

Of swellings and inflammations: hardened, solidified; ben petrified, to become hard. …

A peppery sauce served with meat; peverade sauce. …

Of a bird: to glide, soar. …

(a) An assertion of a legal right, a claim; colour of pretens, justification of a claim; (b) a statement, an allegation; (c) a stated ground or reason; under pretens, on (that) basis; under pretens of……

In phrase: maken prosternacioun, to lie prostrate. …

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

(a) One who forsakes his religious beliefs, an apostate; also, a traitor; -- also fig. of the religion of love; (b) as adj.: apostate. …

Relapsing into sin. …

Staunching bleeding, styptic; staunching or preventing diarrhea; also, astringent; restrictif of blod, blod restrictif. …

A scraping tool used in carpentry; med. an instrument for scraping bone. …

A courier. …

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

(a) Sodium carbonate; poudre of sode; sal sode, crystallized sodium carbonate; (b) ?ash; sode of strau (timber, wode). …

Surg. Cloth saturated in a resinous medicament, primarily used in binding dislocated or fractured bones; also, a piece of this cloth. …

Alch. Vaporized, made volatile. …

Application, diligence, industry; -- as personification. …

(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. …

Med. A morbid swelling or abscess on the head. …

Physiol. The combination of coldness and dryness characteristic of the element of earth and the corresponding humor of melancholy; also, alch. earthen substance [last quot.]. …

Pathol. A firm swollen mass of tissue, a swelling. …

(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. …

(a) A plant of the species Curcuma, esp. the long zedoary Curcuma zedoaria, or its root [= setewal(e n. 1.(a)]; (b) the plant valerian, whether Valeriana officinalis or other species, used medicinally……