(a) Silver, silver coin; (b) her. silver-colored, silver-gilt; (c) vif argent, argent vif, the metal mercury, quicksilver. …

(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. …

Her. A badge of cognizance, insignia; bagge of armes. …

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

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

(a) The color black, a black or dark color; (b) her. sable; (c) (the) broun and (the) blak, persons of all kinds, everyone. …

(a) A bull; fre bole, a bull free to roam with the herd [see Homans Eng.Villagers 61-3]; (b) a steer or bullock. …

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) An uncastrated male swine (either wild or domesticated); (b) bores brain, brain of a boar used medicinally; bor(es grece, fat of a boar; bores herte, a bold or fierce heart; bor(es tusk, one of……

(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……

(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! …

(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'……

(a) A comb for dressing the hair; (b) an ornamental comb for keeping the hair in place; a comli under combe, a fair lady; (c) her. the figure of a comb as a charge. …

(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. …

The moon's shape in the first or last quarter, a crescent. …

(a) A cross for crucifixion, a gibbet; (b) the cross of Christ; holi cros; Exaltacioun of the cros, a feast, Sept. 14; feste of the holi cros, feast of the Invention of the Cross, May 3; (c) winnen……

Her. A cross with each arm recrossed by a small piece at right angles, a cross crosslet. …

(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. …

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

The European ermine [Mustela erminea]. …

(a) Relatively flat open country; a plain; feld and wode(s; feld place, a plain; (b) feld hath eie(n (sight), wode hath ere(s; (c) feld of Damask, feld Damascene, the plain on which Adam was said to……

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

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

(a) A sharp-pointed metal spike; (b) a sharp-pointed stick used for driving oxen etc.; a goad; (c) gad nail, some kind of nail or spike. …

(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. Guienne, the King-of-Arms having jurisdiction over the province of Guienne. …

(a) The metal gold; of gold, consisting of gold, made of gold; (b) gold and silver, etc.; (c) clene gold, cler gold, fin gold, pure gold, refined gold; parti gold, gold with considerable alloy; red……

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. …

(a) The aggregate of inherent qualities or properties of persons, animals, plants, elements, medicines, etc.; essential character; the nature of emotions, attributes, and the like; after the fleshes……

(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) Her. Lancaster, a King-of-Arms having at various times jurisdiction over the province of the north; one of the chief heralds of England; Lancaster king of armes; (b) Lancaster sword, a sword……

(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,……

(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 source of confusion or deception; vision, fantasy, delusion; deceit; -- often preceded by the; (b) the mase, confusion, bewilderment, disorder; (on) a mase, in a state of amazement or confusion……

(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) Dirt, loose earth, soil; also fig.; pl. earth, lumps of dirt; (b) earth as the substance out of which God made man; the dust to which human flesh returns after death; (c) clay or other material……

(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. …

(a) Moonlight; (b) her. moons sprinkled over the field of a heraldic banner; (c) as surname. …

Her. The figure of a type of dog, possibly of mixed breed. …

(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. …

(a) A net for catching fish, birds, or wild animals; also, a net full of fish [quot.: (c1300)]; net breidere, a maker of nets; ?a gladiator who fights with a net; (b) in proverb. …

(a) An osprey (Pandion haliaetus); (b) her. a representation of an osprey. …

(a) An ostrich; (b) in comparisons: foltish as ostrich, cruel as an ostrich; also, in prov.; (c) ostrich (ostriches) ei, an ostrich egg. …

(a) An ostrich feather; (b) a representation of an ostrich feather in embroidery or engraving; (c) her. a representation of an ostrich feather on a seal or a crest. …

(a) The European otter Lutra vulgaris; (b) the fur or skin of the otter; also, a garment made of otter fur or trimmed or lined with otter fur; oter furre; (c) an otter pelt; ?also, a piece of otter……

(a) An owl; horned oule, a horned owl; (b) her. the figure of an owl on a shield; (c) a pictorial representation of an owl; (d) oule flight, twilight. …

(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……

(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……

(a) A pointed missile of some kind; an arrow or a dart; (b) the heavy javelin of the Roman infantry; (c) a sharp-pointed surgical cutting instrument, a lancet. …

(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……

(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. …

A rich cloth dyed purple; also, a garment of purple cloth, esp. royal raiment; purpel and pal, rich fabrics; also, expensive or regal clothing; induen with purpel, to clothe (sb.) in the royal purple……

(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) The raven (Corvus corax); ?also, the rook (Corvus frugilegus); (b) the carrion crow (Corvus corone); (c) raven(es brid, a young raven; raven(es fether; raven(es kinde, a raven's nature; buk-raven……

(a) The color red, a shade of red, redness; purpel red, [see purpel adj. (c)]; (b)her. the tincture gules; (c) red pigment or dye; also, red ink; tuli red, vermilion or cinnabar used as a cosmetic……

(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 plant of the genus Rosa; the flower of this plant; also, a rosebush; also fig.; (b) med. the flower or bud of the rose as used in various medicinal preparations; also, a medicinal syrup or……

(a) The European sable (Martes zibellina); (b) the fur or pelt of the sable; (c) the color black; blak sable; blak as (blakker than) sable; (d) a black garment, black clothing, mourning clothes; (e) h……

Her. An ordinary in the form of a St. Andrew's cross, a saltire; sautour engreled. …

(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) The sail of a ship; also fig.; also, something used as a sail [quot.: Pilgr.LM, 1st]; seiles torneden, sails fell over; (b) with uninflected pl.; (c) seil and mast, mast and seil, mast(s and……

Her. = pile n.(3), sense 4. …

(a) A sheaf of grain; also, an embroidered representation of a sheaf [last quot.]; also, a bundle of bean plants [quot.: a1325, 2nd occurrence]; shef hole, an unthreshed sheaf; ote shefes; (b) binden……

(a) The metal silver; also, silver ore; also fig. [quot.: Rolle Psalter, 1st occurrence]; filinge (isweorf, shavinge) of silver, silver filings; gobet of silver, a piece or strip of silver; (b) silver……

(a) A red ocher used in making a vermilion coloring material; also, the color vermilion, red; (b) her. ?the tincture vert, green [the change in meaning from red to green prob. does not antedate the……

(a) Snow, esp. fallen snow; an accumulation of snow, the accumulation of snow from one snowfall; bal of snou, a snowball; (b) falling snow; also, coll. snowfalls, snowstorms; also, snowy weather; (c)……

(a) The European sparrow hawk (Accipiter nisus); --often used in prov. expressions; also coll. [quot. a1387 vr.]; ?also, a falcon or similar bird of prey [quot. ?c1475]; (b) her. an image of a sparrow……

(a) A piece of timber used in building; a rafter, beam; a board; -- also coll.; firre sparre; hilinge of sparres, a roof; joininge of sparres, a roof or building; maister sparre, a main beam or……

(a) A spindle for spinning thread; nokke of a spindel, a notch cut in a spindle to hold the yarn in place; slippen spindel, to take yarn off a spindle; (b) the amount of yarn collected on a spindle……

(a) A stick of wood, rod; also, a stick of ivory; (b) a branch or limb of a tree; a stalk of a plant. …

(a) In comb.: Stafford bleu, blue cloth from Stafford in Staffordshire; clothen in Stafford bleu, fig. to give (sb.) a beating, beat black-and-blue; (b) in comb.: Stafford knotte, her. a loose knot……

(a) A modified form of iron artificially produced, steel; stel graven, steel-engraved; bristled mid stel, with bristles made of steel; -- used in fig. context; (b) a piece of steel; grinden the stel……