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). …

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……

Something that happens or occurs; a fortuitous happening. …

(a) Phil. Not a natural or essential part of a thing, non-essential, incidental, secondary; (b) not inherent in a thing, induced from without;(c) ?growing out of something else, ?outward, external. …

(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……

(a) Math. The process of adding numbers together; summation; sum; (b) med. a gathering of pus, humors, etc.; process of coming to a head, formation of a pustule. …

To combine, collect, or gather (persons, things, qualities, etc.) into one body or sum. …

Med. A kind of polyp or nasal ulcer. …

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……

Aloe: (a) the tree; (b) the juice or resin of the tree, aloes; (c) med. the drug aloes; aloe caballinum (cicotrine, epatik). …

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……

Phil., physiol., med., alch.: (a) To change, modify, transform; alteraten to (sth.); (b) to change for the worse; affect adversely; deteriorate; (c) to change for the better; affect beneficially……

Phil., physiol., med., alch., astrol. (a) To change, modify, transform; alteren to (sth.); (b) to change for the worse; affect adversely; deteriorate; (c) to change for the better; affect……

(a) Correction; righting (of a wrong); med. rectification (of a condition); emendation (of a text); (b) repairing, mending. …

(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. …

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

Med. The anthers or the pollen of the rose, used as a stiptic. …

Med. & alch. Antimony. …

Med. Capable of opening or dilating (pores, veins, etc.): a medicine causing dilation. …

Med. To open the pores. …

(a) Any kind of fruit growing on a tree, shrub, or vine, such as an apple, crab apple, pear, peach, citron, banana, haw, berry, cucumber; also, a nut, a tuber; (b) appel of cedre, citron; appel of……

(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) To raise (sth.) to a vertical position; to set upright; areren up; (b) of a horse: to rear. …

(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……

Astrol. The relative position, described in angular distance, of one planet or sign to another at a certain time; such a position, or a series of such positions, held to be good or evil in influencing……

(a) Of persons, body and soul: allied, associated; (b) med. of bones: connected, ?paired; of symptoms: occurring together, accompanied; of substances: mixed, blended. …

(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) To attract (sth.); attract (sb.) as an ally; (b) med. to draw out (diseased matter); treat by drawing out diseased matter. …

Med. Drawing out, elimination. …

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

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

(a) To empty (a place), clear (of people); to empty (sb.); fig. to rid (the heart of sadness); avoiden of; (b) med. to cleanse (the body of rotten humors, etc.); avoiden fro, avoiden of; to evacuate……

Med. The expulsion of rotten humors or other corrupt matter from the body, cleansing, purging. …

(a) A round body; sphere, globe, orb; turnen as a bal, to turn as does Fortune's ball; (b) the orb borne together with a scepter as an emblem of sovereignty; (c) a rounded protuberance or boss for……

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

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

Med. A kind of electuary used in various medicines. …

(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. …

(a) To tie (sth.) up, as with a cord; bind (sheaves); gather or hold together, as with a girdle; tie (a bag, purse) shut; tie off, as with a tourniquet; (b) to tie or fasten (sth. to sth. else), tie……

(a) Of a black color, black; (b) blak and blo, black and livid, black and blue [see blo adj.]; blak or whit, black or white, of any color or kind; blak as col (blacche, croue, inde, molde, pich, slo),……

(a) A bubble; med. a pustule; (b) bubbling water, foaming or seething waves; blober mere; (c) intestines, entrails; (d) fish or whale oil. …

(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……

(a) The blowing of the wind; also fig.; (b) breathing, exhaling; blowing with the breath; med. blouing in, insufflation; (c) blowing a fire (with bellows); also fig.; (d) smelting; blouing hous; (e)……

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……

A jar (for salves, cosmetics, spices, etc.), usually cylindrical. …

Med. Cupping. …

(a) To be broken, fall apart, break, shatter; bresten atwo, bresten atwinne, bresten in peces, bresten in sunder; (b) to break (sth.), shatter, crush; break (one's arm); ppl. brosten, of grain or……

(a) Breaking; bresting doun, breaking down, overthrowing; (b) a wound, a bruise; (c) bursting open. …

Med. Gangrenous, mortified. …

(a) A flat cake or loaf; also, an unbaked cake or loaf; haver (ote, oten) cake, a cake of oaten bread; therf cake, a cake of unleavened bread; barli cake, flouren cake, spiced cake; (b) bread of the……

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

Med. An inflammation. …

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

Med. A remedy which increases the heat of the body (or of a part of the body). …

A pipe or tube. …

(a) A headdress, a hat; esp., a small head covering worn under the hood; (b) a priest's close-fitting cap, the coif covering the tonsure; also, any kind of head covering for ecclesiastics; (c) a……

(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. The dispersion of wind or gas in the body. …

Med. Of wind in the body or a flatulent swelling: dispersed, removed. …

Med. To disperse (matter, humors), remove. …

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

Med. To disperse (coagulated matter, humors, etc.). …

Med. Aiding the growth of flesh. …

(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) To throw (sth.) to a distance, fling, hurl; pour or sprinkle (water); (b) sift (sand); (c) scatter (seed), sow; (d) throw at (sb.). …

The European beaver (Castor fiber). …

Med. (a) = castor 2. (a); (b) erroneously: the testicle of a beaver. …

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

Med. Any disease characterized by inflammation of, and discharge from, the mucous membranes of the head and throat. …

Med. A poultice containing herbs, a cataplasm. …

Med. The application of cataplasms, poulticing. …

Med. To apply a cataplasm to (sth.), to poultice. …

Med. The applying of cataplasms, poulticing. …

Med. Descending, falling; cathesial opilacioun, cathesial stopping, an obstruction of the post-nasal passages by the descent of humors from the brain. …

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

Med. (a) An officinal ointment consisting of wax blended with medicinal ingredients; (b) a plaster impregnated with this ointment. …

(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……

(a) Potter's clay; any argillaceous earth; clayey soil; pal as clei; drie as clei; walkeres clei, fuller's earth; ded clei, clay cured by baking, burnt clay; quik clei, raw, unburnt clay; (b) mineral……

(a) To separate (the grain) from the chaff and other refuse, sift, winnow; (b) to free (liquid, etc.) from sediment and impurities, clarify, strain; (c) to free (metal) of dross, refine; refl. be……

(a) The action of cleaning or purifying; washing, polishing, sifting, straining, threshing, pruning, weeding, etc.; (b) clensing becche, a cleaning spade used by brewers; clensing fat, cleansing vat……

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

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

(a) A piece of woven or felted fabric; a cloth; (b) cloth of gold (silver), a piece of gold (silver) brocade; also, a garment, hanging, etc., made of cloth of gold (silver); (c) cloth of Arras……

Med. A clarified or strained concoction, an extract. …

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……

The sharing of possessions. …

(a) Connected; (b) related (as kinsmen); (c) joined (in marriage); united (in friendship). …

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. …