(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) Silver, silver coin; cash (specifying a cash price as opposed to a discounted price or price paid in installments); (b) her. silver-colored, silver-gilt; (c) vif argent, argent vif, [L argentum……

(a) To equip oneself with weapons and armor, to arm oneself; don armen, leten armen, to cause (sb.) to arm himself, to have (oneself) armed; (b) refl. to put on one's battle gear, arm oneself; to……

(a) The weapons of a warrior; also, defensive arms and armor; (b) in sg.: a weapon; (c) the tusks of a boar; (d) means of spiritual attack or defence; armes of penaunce, Godes armes, etc. …

The blue stone lapis lazuli; enamel made of powdered lapis lazuli. …

(a) A barrier, obstruction, or barricade, esp. outside the gate of a walled city or castle; also, the gate itself; -- often pl.; (b) in names: gate (of a walled city). …

(a) To secure (a gate, a door) with bars or a bolt; to bar, block, or bolt; barren to; (b) to lock (a room); (c) to lock (sb.) up. …

(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) A walking stick, staff; (b) fig. a blow with such a stick. …

Her. Having a crenelated edge. …

(a) A fetter, shackle, chain; also fig.; (b) a band or strap of metal, a hoop, clamp, fastening; (c) a circlet or fillet to confine the hair; (d) a cord for tying or fastening; a bandage, rope, withy……

(a) Ornamented with bands or stripes; (b) her. having a diagonal stripe, bendy. …

(a) A narrow bandage; (b) an ornamental band or stripe; (c) her. a narrow diagonal stripe, a bendlet; (d) a cord or shackle. …

Her. Traversed by narrow horizontal stripes, barruly. …

Her. Strewn with gold disks or bezants; besaunte (of) gold. …

Her. Strewn with 'billets' (small rectangular figures); billetty. …

(a) Blue; esp., sky-blue, azure; (b) blue-violet, hyacinthine; deep blue-purple, indigo-blue; dark; as bleu as inde; (c) bleu purpre, bleu violet, bright bleu, dep bleu, inde bleu, violet bleu; (d) as……

(a) Edge, side, brink, margin; boundary (of a city or country); (b) a district lying along the boundary of a country, a border region; (c) an ornamental border along the edge of a dish, garment……

Her. Of a cross or crosslet: having each arm ending in a trefoil, botonée. …

(a) A leather bag; (b) her. representation of two bags hung from a yoke, a bouget. …

(a) A leather bag; water bouge, a leather bottle for water; (b) her. a representation of two bags hung from a yoke, a bouget; (c) bouge maker, one who makes leather bags. …

(a) A piece of open ground, such as a field or meadow; (b) chaump bataile, battlefield; chaump clos, an area set off or enclosed for trial by combat or a tournament; also, single combat. …

(a) The head or leader (of an organization); ruler, governor, administrator, commander, chief officer, chief; chef of clergie, high priest; chef of holi chirche; etc.; (b) the (chief) seat (of a……

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

Her. Checkered, checky. …

(a) Her. A charge or device in the shape of an inverted V, chevron; (b) a design of that shape. …

(a) The male of the common domestic fowl: cock, rooster; cok chike(n, ?a young cock; cok tord, a cock's excrement; (b) the male of other birds; culver cok; fesaunt cok; mor cok (q.v.); po cok (q.v.)……

Color as an inherent property of matter; uttemest colours, the extreme colors, i.e. white and black; mene (middel) colour, the intermediate colors, i.e. yellow, orange, red, purple, and 'green'……

Her. Poised for combat. …

(a) The plant cumin Cummin cyminum or its aromatic seed; (b) used medicinally; (c) used in cooking; (d) her. …

(a) Anat. A rib; fals coste, false rib; (b) the side of the body, flank; the side of a building; the face of a solid figure; (c) her. cotise. …

(a) A small cross; a cruciform reliquary; (b) her. a cross crosslet; (c) crosselet wise, shaped like a cross crosslet. …

(a) A dance of any kind (i.e. of a group, a couple, or an individual performer); (b) a group of dancers; (c) her. a picture of a dance. …

(a) A half (of a certain measure or unit); (b) a Scottish gold coin [see quots.]; (c) her. half-and-half, party. …

(a) Notched, serrate; (b) barbed; (c) inlaid; (d) her. indented; (e) of a deed: made in the manner of an indenture. …

(a) To take one's leave, go away, depart; departen awei; (b) departen fro (awei fro, from, out of), to go away from (sb. or sth., a place); departen from, retreat from (foes); fig. departen from lif,……

Her. Extending downwards. …

The fact of difference in kind; lack of identity, unlikeness, dissimilarity, diversity: (a) without constr.; (b) with prep. phr.; (c) with gen. …

(a) To cut off the members or limbs of (a person, an animal); tear (sb.) limb from limb, dismember; dismembren asondre, dismembren joint fro joint, dismembren lim and lith, dismembren on peces; (b) to……

Her. Diagonal, 'bendwise'. …

(a) To make notches, dents, or indentations in (something); give (something) a toothed, serrate, or jagged character or appearance; (b) fig. heckle. …

Her. Lying down, but with the head raised; couchant. …

Her. Having an edge or border consisting of tapering points; engrailed. …

Her. A manner of dividing a shield into two parts, such that a triangular portion is in one color and the remainder of the field in a different color. [Apparently equiv. to party per chevron in MnE……

Her. Athwart. …

The European ermine Mustela erminea. …

(a) Made of ermine fur; (b) her. having the fur ermine, consisting of white with black spots. …

Her. Having the fur ermines, consisting of black with white spots (instead of black on white); -- also as noun. …

Of persons, animals (specif., the fox, lapwing), etc.: given to the practice of deception; deceitful, full of guile; also, guilty of breach of trust, faithless, disloyal, perfidious, treacherous; fals……

Her. A charge made to resemble the ironwork at the center of a millstone [i.e. two semicircular pieces, placed convex to convex, bound together by two parallel bands so as to leave a square opening at……

Her. A single broad horizontal stripe across the middle of the field, a fesse; also, one of two or three horizontal stripes, a bar. …

Her. A type of subordinary: a more or less lentiform space at either side of a shield of arms (bounded by the outer rim and by a segment of a circle intersecting the rim); a flanch, a flasque. …

(a) Of a blossom: to open; of a plant: to bloom, blossom; of a field, etc.: to become full of flowers; (b) of wine: transl. L flavescit, to turn golden. …

Her. Ornamented with fleurs-de-lis, flory, fleury. …

Her. Divided, forked. …

Her. Shaped, moulded; cros forme, a cross whose arms are thick at the extremities and tapering inward to the point of juncture. …

(a) An ornament, a decorative device, an ornamental design or border; (b) an ornamental netlike covering for the hair; a headband or diadem. …

(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. A bearing in the form of an elongated lozenge, a fusil. …

Her. Of an ordinary: composed of fusils. …

(a) A bundle of brass rods; (b) her. a representation of a sheaf of wheat or a bunch of cumin. …

(a) Twins; (b) the constellation Gemini; (c) her. barrulets arranged in pairs. …

Her. Of a shield or the field of a coat of arms: divided into gyrons or triangular sections, gyronny. …

Her. The tincture gules, red; red goules; also, gules-tinctured, gules-depicted. …

(a) A drop of liquid; (b) a fragrant resin, stacte, ?a kind of myrrh; (c) her. a drop-shaped figure in a coat of arms, a goutte. …

Her. Engrailed. …

(a) Nearby, adjacent, touching; joinant to, adjacent to (sth.), abutting upon; (b) her. of charges: connected, conjoined. …

(a) A dangling strip of cloth or ribbon used as an ornament in dress; a tab, band; (b) a strip of parchment or paper appended to a document to contain supplementary matter; fig. a corollary; (c) a……

(a) A language, tongue; on light lange, in simple language; (b) her.?a tongue-shaped heraldic charge; ?the tongue-shaped end of a banner. …

(a) A lizard; esp. the stellion; (b) ?a crocodile, ?a serpent; (c) a dagger, dirk; ?also, the point of a weapon, sharp point; (d) her. a representation of a lizard, (?) or of a salamander. …

(a) A young lion, little lion; (b) a statue of a young lion; (c) her. a young lion in a coat of arms, shield, or the like. …

(a) A lion; (b) in comparisons: fers (hardi, wod) as lioun; cruel (real, sterne) as a lioun; strongere than a lioun; proudere (wildere) than the lioun; etc.; (c) in phrases: fers (gredi, grim, lothli,……

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……

Her. A representation of a pike; also, a person having a pike in his coat of arms. …

(a) A representation of a pagan deity, an idol; pagan god or goddess; fals (hethen) maumet; image of a household god (among the Jews); also coll. gods [quot.: a1450(a1338)]; (b) fig. an object of……

A sleeve; her. sleeve used as a charge. …

Her. A martlet. …

(a) Metalline substance, metal in general; metal kinde; metal makere (smith), a metalworker; metal yetere, a caster of metal, founder; (b) in contexts referring to a particular metal or alloy; (c)……

(a) Her. A rowel-like, straight-edged star of five or more points, sometimes pierced in the center, that serves as the mark of cadency of a third son; (b) a rowel-like decoration. …

Her. Naiant, swimming. …

(a) An ostrich; (b) in comparisons: foltish as ostrich, cruel as an ostrich; also, in prov.; (c) ostrich (ostriches) ei, an ostrich egg; ostrich ruf, an ostrich 'ruff' [see ruf n.(3)]. …

(a) A stake, pole; a stake for vines; ?also, a protective vertical iron bar for a window [attested only in ML]; (b) a staff for fighting, a quarterstaff; also, a stake or post used as an adversary in……

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 divide (sth.); parten in (on) two (thre, etc.), divide (sth., a group of people) in two (three, etc.) parts or shares; parten on twein, divide (sth.) in two; also fig.; parten in ser, divide……

(a) Of things: transitory; of persons: transient, traveling; as noun: a transient; (b) her. of animals on a shield or coat of arms: in a walking posture; (c) surpassing, great, excellent. …

In phr.: lettre(s patent, lettres patentes, bulles patent, patent lettre(s, a document (documents) granting a right, privilege, or power, making an appointment, a decree, etc. …

(a) A fragment of an object, a bit or piece of a whole; a piece cut or torn from a cloth, garment, etc., scrap, patch, tag; a slice or piece of meat or fish; bi peces, in pieces; bresten (heuen) to……

(a) A spherical or circular object; a gob, lump, or piece; (b) a pellet or cannon ball of various sizes, made of metal or stone, used as a missile to be discharged from a catapult, cannon, crossbow……

Her. Of devices, esp. crosses, on a coat of arms: pointed at the bottom, fitchy. …

(a) A flat piece of metal or other substance; esp. a sheet of metal, a metal plate or disk; (b) plat of bras (coper, gold, iren, led, silver); plat of lether (ston, tre); iren plat, an iron plate……

Her. Divided into fusils filled with the ends of feathers, plumeté. …

(a) A small dot marked on a surface; also, a punctuation mark, period; (b) a small hole; prick, puncture; the pointes of peines, ?the marks of Christ's wounds; (c) a spot of dirt; med. a round spot or……

(a) A crutch; (b) her. a device having projections in the form of crutch-heads and patterned in a Greek key design. …

To make a powder of (sth.), grind, pulverize. …

(a) A cloth, often of silk, dyed with Tyrian purple or a similar dye; purple fabric, esp. associated with royalty; (b) a garment made from purple cloth; raiment of royal purple; also fig.; usen purpur……

(a) One of four parts or divisions of a thing; also, a one-fourth proportional part of a mixture [quot.: a1398]; (b) one of four parts into which a chicken or other edible animal is cut, each……

(a) Divided into four parts; ?also, cut in pieces; (b) her. of a coat of arms: arranged in four sections with different charges occupying alternate sections; of a figure or device on a coat of arms or……

(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……