Med. and surg. (a) Removal, amputation; ablacioun of blod, bloodletting; also, removal (of the cause of a disease); (b) loss of function (in a part of the body). …

Phil., physiol., med., alch.: (a) Change, transformation, transmutation; (b) change for the worse, deterioration; evel alteracioun; ill effect or result; (c) change for the better, amelioration……

Med. & alch. Antimony. …

(a) Med. Arsenic or some of its compounds; prob., a special form of orpiment (arsenic trisulphide) distinguished from the latter by physical properties; (b) arsenik citrinum, orpiment; arsenik rubeum……

(a) A sulphide of arsenic, orpiment; esp., the trisulphide of arsenic, yellow orpiment [used in med. and alch., and regarded as a precious stone]; (b) disulphide of arsenic, red orpiment, realgar. …

(a) Blood; drauen blod, to draw blood; leten blod, sheden blod, spillen blod, shed blood; cause bloodshed, take life; as red as blod; (b) leten blod, to bleed (a person), phlebotomize; fig. to wound……

Name given to several minerals; prob. borax, malachite, sodium carbonate, verdigris, and possibly others: (a) an ingredient in preparations for soldering metals and for fastening gold leaf; also, a……

(a) An elevated place, a step, platform, tier; a step in a flight of stairs; a tier of seats; a rung of a ladder; song of degres, one of the fifteen gradual Psalms; (b) bi degres, by steps or stairs……

(a) Med. Drying out, as by draining or treatment with a desiccative; (b) alch. removal of moisture by the application of heat, desiccation. …

(a) The digestion of food and drink; first digestioun, the digestive process carried on principally in the stomach and intestines; (b) the capacity for digesting food or drink; (c) digestibleness; of……

(a) Purpose or intention; aim or object; reason (for doing something); (b) of entente, intentionally, deliberately, voluntarily; double of entente, ?shifty; (c) for, in, til, to, with (the) entente……

(a) Hunt. The excrement of certain game animals, such as the deer; (b) med. excrement, dung; (c) alch. mud or clay (for sealing a retort). …

(a) Fire as a physical phenomenon;--without article; (b) the fire of hell; helle-fir, eche fir. …

(a) Government or rule over a country, the Church, etc.; authority or power to rule; also, method or manner of governing; haven (holden) governaunce of, haven governaunce in, to hold the ruling……

Med. & surg. (a) Watering of the eyes; (b) the moistening of bodily tissues, production of moisture in tissues. …

(a) Moistness, dampness; (b) anat. & med. the primary quality of moistness. …

Med. Any one of various inflammatory and eruptive diseases of the skin and flesh; ignis grecus, ?erysipelas; ignis persicus, ?anthrax; ignis salvaticus, ignis sacri, ignis sanctus, sacer ignis……

(a) Alch. The process of soaking a substance in a liquid; (b) med. making dry by absorption of humors. …

(a) Med. & surg. The hardening of a bodily part, an inflammation, etc.; (b) alch. the hardening or congealing of soft materials. …

(a) A lamp of glass, metal, etc.; oil lamp; light; laump light, a lighted lamp; shinen as a laump, to shine like a lamp; (b) fig. a source of light or guidance; a star, the Virgin Mary; the fire of……