(a) a small ring; (b) Med. and anat. the 'cartilage of the windpipe' [Norri]; (c) her. a cadency mark in the shape of a ring. …

(a) Cook. Decorated with strips of metal foil; (b) Her. divided equally by horizontal stripes of two alternating colors; also as noun: blazon so constituted. …

(a) To wrap or tie (sth.); blindfold; set (jewels); (b) to provide (sth.) with stripes or borders, adorn or border (with sth.); (c) her. to provide (a shield) with a diagonal stripe; ppl. bended……

Something used for tying, binding, wrapping, fastening, joining: (a) a cord, string (also fig.); a strap, halter, leash; a bowstring; (b) a twist of straw; a tendril; (c) a bandage or wrapping; (d) a……

(a) A call uttered in chess when the opponent's king (or another important figure) is under attack: check!, guard!; (b) fig. halt! …

(a) To adorn or decorate (something), to ornament (with an inlay of gold or precious stones), to interweave (a garment with gold thread, etc.); (b) fretted ful (all) of, thickly set with (gems, etc.)……

Her. Composed of lozenges of alternate colors, lozengy. …

(a) A rhombus or diamond-shaped object or pattern, frequently used as an ornamental motif; (b) her. a lozenge [some quots. in (a) may belong here]; (c) cook. a diamond-shaped cake or wafer; a dish……

(a) The male of the red grouse (Lagopus scoticus); (b) her.?the figure of the male of the red grouse on a coat of arms; (c) ?the male of the pheasant (Phasianus colchicus); (d) as surname. …

To construct a paling; enclose (sth.) with a paling; ppl. fenced, fortified, enclosed; palen abouten, raise a paling around (sth.); -- also refl. enclose (oneself) with a paling [quot.: (a1420)]. …

(a) Her. Vertically striped, paly; (b) striped. …

(a) To scrape (sth.); also, shave (sb., somebody's crown); (b) to make erasures; erase (writing, a passage of writing, etc.); scrape (a page, book) clean; emend (a document) by erasure; rasen awei……

(a) Of a snake, dragon: to creep on the ground, crawl; ppl. raumpinge, ?rearing up; ?also, climbing; (b) ppl. raumpinge as adj., of unfledged hawks: creeping, unable to fly. …

(a) The European reindeer (Rangifer tarandus); (b) her. rein-der hed, a stag's head with two sets of antlers (double attires), the front pair turned down. …

Her. Richmond, the king-of-arms having jurisdiction over the earldom of Richmond. …

(a) A toy that spins around, a top, whirligig, perh. consisting of a disc of some sort with a pointed peg passed through its center; (b) her. ?a badge in the form of a disc. …

(a) To make (sb.) sit, seat (sb.); also, with partitive construction: setten of..over heigh setle, fig. seat (someone's offspring) upon (his) high throne, make to rule; setten adoun (doun, up), make……

(a) Sharply, keenly; also, piercingly; (b) loudly, shrilly; (c) fiercely; intensely; also, vigorously, eagerly [quot.: ?a1450]; sharpe lokinge; (d) swiftly; with pun on sense (a) [2nd quot.]; sharpe……

(a) To impart color; also fig.; steining wateres, dyes; (b) to color (sth.), dye (fabric, clothing, etc.); ppl. steined, dyed, colored; also fig.; (c) to discolor (sth.); -- also without obj. [1st……

(a) Without contents, empty; also fig. and in fig. context; of a river: empty of water, etc.; of a pen: empty of ink (b) of the stomach or part of the intestinal tract: without food, empty; of the……

(a) The color white, white as the color opposite to black; also, a pale or whitish color; also, whiteness, whiteness as the opposite of blackness; her. ?the color argent; bright (shininge) whit, a……

(a) Of a substance, structure, an object: white in color; whitish, pale-colored, light-colored; of the moon, a star: silvery-white; of a book or register: bound in a white or light-colored binding; of……