Med. A gum made from the juice of green plums or sloes (used as an astringent, a restringent, or a repercussive). …

(a) Phil. A non-essential or incidental characteristic, a temporary and variable property of a thing; bi accidence, through a secondary means, indirectly; of accidence, without affecting or involving……

(a) A deed, an action (either physical or mental); process, operation, activity; (b) a written record of an action; Actes of Apostles, a book of the New Testament; (c) a state of accomplishment or……

Law The transfer of one's title to property or rights; alienation or sale (of property); surrender or loss (of a right); also, alteration (of a will) [quot. 1458]. …

(a) To alleviate, mitigate, or allay (suffering, grief, tribulation, etc.); (b) lighten or reduce (burdensome obligations, responsibilities, etc.); (c) reduce or remit (a penalty); (d) med. mitigate……

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……

(a) A small flask [of glass or metal]; (b) a small flask of consecrated water or oil [commonly carried by pilgrims returning from a shrine]; ampulla. …

(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. …

Logic & ethics A prior assumption or principle, a premise; antecedent trouth; antecedent ded, a preceding act as causing a later act. …

Med. & alch. Antimony. …

(a) To join or combine (with); attach (to sth.); adhere; aplien aright, to fit properly; -- with to phrase; (b) to gather, assemble (members of a group); (c) to include (in a set); (d) med. apply (a……

(a) A black coloring matter or pigment; black ink; (b) a pigment used in glass painting; prob., ferric oxide [cp. Knowles in Antiq.50]. …

(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) To pay attention (to sth.); devote oneself (to a task or purpose); study (sth.); -- with to, til, unto, on phr., or with obj.; (b) attenden from, turn attention away from, avoid; (c) ppl. attent……

Med. (a) The action or property of drawing (diseased matter) to the surface; (b) contraction, extraction. …

(a) Regret (a mild form of contricioun); (b) med. breaking, fragmentation. …

(a) A plant of the genus Geum; prob., the wood avens Geum urbanum; (b) med.; (c) cook. …

Med. To wash (a sore or lesion), wet, soak. …

To permeate (sth.) with liquid, perfuse: (a) cook. to soak (bread); to baste (a fowl); (b) med. to apply a moist compress to (a wound); (c) in tanning leather: to soak (a hide) in a solution of alum……

A viscous mixture of ingredients 'beaten' together: (a) batter; (b) paste; (c) med. plaster. …

(a) Of persons: gracious, gentle, kind, generous, merciful; showing good will (toward sb.); of an inferior: meek, submissive; (b) as noun: a gracious person; (c) of an animal: friendly, gentle, tame. …

Med. Bulimia. …

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……

Alch. & med. (a) To reduce (sth.) to powder by heating; (b) to change the nature of (sth.) by heating in a certain way. …

Med. (a) Of a remedy or a diet: producing heat in the body, warming; (b) a medicine which increases heat. …

(a) A precious stone, any of the gems called carbuncles; esp., that carbuncle which shines in the dark; (b) a decorative material made of (or resembling) carbuncles; (c) something excellent or……

Med. Having the property of dispersing wind in the body. …

(a) State of affairs, circumstances, situation; predicament; hard cas; the fortunes (of a person), lot, destiny; (b) senden cas, yeven cas, to grant fortune, rule destiny; grant (a certain kind of)……

(a) One of the 'floodgates' of heaven; cataracte of the ether; (b) med. a cataract of the eye. …

The cause of an effect; source, origin, root. …

(a) To make (sth. or sb.) warm, heat; chaufen the bath, warm the bath water; (b) to warm (oneself); (c) to grow warm or hot. …

(a) A vessel for heating water; kettle, pot; (b) a cooking vessel, such as a pot, skillet, or frying pan; (c) a serving dish or platter. …

(a) Clary; (b) med. clary containing medicinal herbs; also, a clarified infusion of medicinal herbs (without wine). …

(a) To separate the clear part (of a liquid) from the dregs, free (honey, butter, liquids) from impurities causing opacity, clarify; refine (metal); ?also, become clear; (b) fig. to free (sb.) from……

Med. (a) A clyster, enema; any medicinal liquid administered through the rectum; (b) the instrument for injecting such liquids, a sort of syringe. …

To strengthen (sb.) spiritually, inspire with fortitude or courage; comforten herte; also, assure, reassure (sb.). …

(a) To distribute (sth.) in shares, deal out; communen to, give (sth.) to (sb.) as his share; communen with, share (sth.) with (others); (b) to have a share (in sth.), participate; enter into……

Of a person: (a) to compel or force (sb. to do sth.), make (sb. do sth.); also, oblige, induce; (b) constreinen herte, constreinen wil, to exert pressure or compulsion on (someone's) heart or will……

A traditional practice (of a nation, a group), a custom or tradition; of consuetude, according to tradition or custom; kepen, usen consuetude, to follow or observe a custom; taken consuetude, to……

Med. To eat away or destroy (organic tissue): said of (a) noxious humours, ulcers, etc.; (b) a corrosive medicine or application. …

(a) Chemically corrosive; water corrosif, an acid; also fig.; (b) a chemically corroding substance, as an acid. …

(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) Daily; also, continual, unceasing; (b) usual, habitual; ordinary, everyday. …

(a) To cover (an object) by laying or spreading material over or about it; cover up or envelop; also, coveren above, coveren up; (b) of the material: to cover (the object). …

(a) To bend (sth.), curl, curve, twist; (b) to bend, genuflect; (c) med. to afflict (part of the body) with spasms. …

(a) The transparent form of crystallized quartz, rock crystal; (b) some material resembling crystal; (c) fig. the clear part of the eye [see cristalline]; (d) in comparisons: bright as cristal, cler……

(a) A drinking vessel; a bowl, goblet, cup, etc.; also, a receptacle for fruit or confections; (b) stonding cuppe, a cup with a foot or base; trussing cuppe, ?a cup or chalice for traveling; (c) a……

(a) Attention, heed; nimen cure, to pay attention; taken cure, pay attention (to sth.), be interested (in sth.); I do no cure, I do not care, I am indifferent; (b) fondness, liking, partiality……

(a) A hanging downward; (b) deterioration, degeneration. …

Med. & surg. Designed to remove or cover up blemishes, beautifying. …

(a) To fight in defense of (sth.), defend (sb.) by fighting; fight defensively; defenden from, defend against (sb.); (b) refl. to defend oneself; also, put up a fight; defenden ayen, defenden fro……

(a) Act of defending oneself (or sb. else) by fighting, defense; comen to defens, to come to someone's defense; don defens, maken defens, stonden at defens, to defend oneself; also, to fight; for (in)……

(a) Med. & surg. A medicine or ointment that prevents the growth or spread of disease, venom, humors, etc. [cp. defensif medecine]; (b) an ointment that preserves corpses. …

(a) Of weapons, armor: defensive; (b) med. & surg. of a bandage: preventing the spread of pus or other fluids; of a medicine or ointments: preventing the growth or spread of disease, preventive……

(a) To walk on (sth.), trample upon; trample (sb.); tread on (cloth), full; tread (a wine press); (b) fig. to trample on (one's life, Christ, religion, truth, temptation, etc.), treat harshly or……

(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) To save (sb.), rescue, give relief to; -- also refl.; ppl. deliverend, rescuer, benefactor; delivered, the saved, the redeemed; (b) deliveren fro, deliveren from, deliveren of, deliveren out of. …

(a) To deny (a fact, truth, or belief); deny the validity of (a doctrine or conclusion); refuse to believe in (sth.); also, express a denial; (b) to deny (an accusation); express a denial. …

(a) To force (sth.) down, drive (sb.) downward; push down, crush; (b) med. to condense (sth.); thicken (the skin), reduce (a swelling); (c) p.ppl. depresse, drooping.. …

Med. In names of pharmaceutical preparations, or drugs, usually indicating that the herb or the like which follows is the chief ingredient: (a) dia- bardich, some kind of drug; dia- borago, a drug……

Med. A lead plaster containing various plant extracts; 'plaster containing mucilages (in some recipes also juices) extracted from plants, litharge (lead monoxide), and olive oil.' [Norri]; diaquiloun……

As adj.: (a) med. able to break down pathological matter, humors, etc.; medecin digestif, a digestive medicine, a drug that prepares pathological matter for evacuation; (b) physiol. having to do with……

(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) Amplification in discourse; also, an amplified passage; (b) spreading abroad, propagation; (c) med. expansion, spreading out, enlargement. …

(a) Med. A diseased condition of the body, or its parts, caused by an unfavorable combination of the humors; (b) fig. disharmony, disorder. …

(a) To be disdainful of (sth.), hold (sb.) in contempt, scorn (sb. or sth.); also fig.; (b) to scorn (to do sth.); -- also impers.; (c) to display contempt or scorn; also with at or with phrase. …

Physiol. To upset the proper balance of the humors or qualities. …

(a) To flow or fall in drops; trickle, drop; distillen fro(m, distillen out of, distillen of, distillen doun, distillen into, distillen on, distillen to; (b) to shed drops; distillen on; (c) refl.……

(a) To turn (in a certain direction); diverten aside; diverten fro, depart from (a place); fig. escape from, avoid (a fraud); diverten to, go to (a place); (b) to turn (sb.) away, repulse; avert (a……

(a) Execution or completion (of an act); attainment or consummation (of a desire, an aim); fulfillment or realization (of a wish, a prayer, a dream); (b) comen to effect, achieve or attain to; produce……

Emission or flow (of blood); effusioun of blood, the spilling of blood, bloodshed. …

Med. Subject to disease, diseased. …

(a) The act of rising; (b) astron. the altitude or angular height above the horizon. …

Med. A syringe or douche for introducing curative fumes or liquids. …

Med. Of a physician: belonging to the empirical school. …

To hinder or block; to get stuck; to choke (grass). …

(a) One who, as an individual, hates or seeks to injure (someone); dedli enemi, mortal enemi, bodili enemi; (b) an adversary of God, an unbeliever or heathen; one who is opposed to (or fails to……

Of progenitors: to beget or have (offspring); of offspring: to be begotten, born, or descended. …

(a) To gather, collect, or acquire (something) in large quantity or numbers; (b) to accumulate or buy (goods) in such quantity as to cause scarcity, to forestall (the market), to corner (a commodity……

(a) To smear or daub (sb. or sth. with a soft substance such as blood or poison); to apply oil cosmetically to (the face); (b) to grease (a wrestler). …

(a) To smear or daub (sb. or sth. with a soft substance such as oil or grease); (b) to put oil on (food); to baste (a fowl); (c) to caulk (a ship); to seal (a casket). …

(a) An oil or ointment used for embalming the dead, balm; (b) med. an unguent used for healing wounds; also, the process of applying such unguents [quot. c1440]; (c) the administering of extreme……

(a) Purpose, intention, or design; aim or object; final entencioun, ultimate purpose or goal; (b) of entencioun, on purpose, intentionally; of on entencioun, with fixed purpose; unanimously. …

(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……

Med. and anat. (a) Affected with disease of the liver; (b) epatik veine the basilic vein; = epatica n., sense 1. …

(a) Med. A continuous or recurring, wasting fever [said to result from ulcers, the 'stone', faulty diet, emotional disturbances, etc., but especially associated with tuberculosis], hectic fever; --……

Med. A morbid growth or excrescence. …

(a) The action or process of observing, investigating, testing; an observation, test, or trial; also, a discovery; express experiment, direct or actual observation; maken, usen, preven (an) experiment……

Having (personal) experience (in or of something); experienced, wise through experience. …

(a) To breathe one's last, to die; (b) to breathe out (the soul) at the time of death. …

(a) To put (something) into words, to describe or set forth; to state, declare, or report; to relate (events), to tell (a story); expressen trouth, give a true account, tell the truth; (b) to give……

Med. Of dressings, bandages, medicinal property, etc.: serving to press out or expel, expulsive. …

Med. Having the property of cleansing by expelling impure matter from the body. …

(a) Deceitful; fallacious, false; (b) med.?abnormal, improper. …

That which has only a seeming reality, permanence, or value; vanity (of the world, its riches, joys, etc.); also, any of the world's vanities. …

(a) Hot, burning, fiery; fervent hete, burning heat; (b) fervent oil, hot oil; fervent water, scalding water; (c) fervent ground (lond). …

(a) The fruit of the fig tree, especially the common fig (Ficus carica); (b) drie fige, a dried fig; esp., a cultivated fig suitable for drying and marketing; grene fige, neue fige, undried fig; (c)……

(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) A reed instrument, shepherd's pipe; (b) the drug cassia fistula. …

(a) Porous (stone); (b) med. like a fistula. …