(a) A key; lok and keie; also fig.; kinges keies, crowbars and hammers used to force locks or doors; (b) a representation of a key in a heraldic device; keie of rome, a key as a sign of Roman……
(a) A sewing needle; ?also, a pointed instrument, style [quot.: (c1392) 30/8]; seuinge nedle; (b) surg. any one of various kinds of needle used in surgical procedures, a surgical needle [not always……
(a) Space, extension in two or three dimensions; (b) sufficient space, adequate room; also, space in a book; stonden in roum, to have room to assemble; (c) a particular portion of space, specific……
(a) A small, portable writing tablet made from a slab of wood or other hard material, often covered with wax in which the characters are incised; pl. a set of tablets, usu. tied or hinged together, a……
(a) A long pointed tooth often protruding beyond the mouth of an animal, a tusk;—used chiefly of the boar; also, a tooth of a calf, horse, etc., prob. one of the canine teeth; (b) a tusklike tooth of……
(a) An upright enclosing structure, usu. constructed of stone, brick, etc., serving to bound or demarcate the limits of a town, castle with its outbuildings, monastery, etc.; also, a high, relatively……
(a) Water as a naturally occurring element or substance; water as opposed to the other elements;—also pl.; wateres froren, the ice thought to surround the earth [quot. a1325]
(b) precipitation;……
(a) The perceptible motion of air over the surface of the earth; a specific instance of such motion of air; also in fig. context; wind side (half), the side from which the wind is blowing; wind……