A person who is active in a cause. …

(a) Treatment with heat or burning, calcination of a substance; (b) surg. cauterization; (c) phys. the corruption of bodily humors, ulcers, etc., by heat; the process by which humors, etc., become adu……

The observance of proper measure or the 'golden mean'; moderation, temperateness. …

(a) A tree [cp. fike bem, note bem, etc.]; (b) the Cross; bote of bem, relief from suffering or misfortune; (c) bem of cloud, a pillar of cloud; (d) a specific kind of tree, probably one or more……

(a) The whole physical frame of a living being; physique, body; bodi-lich, body [cp. līch body]; assaien bodi, test (one's) physique or physical prowess; (b) build, stature, figure; (c) bodi and……

(a) Coldness of atmosphere, season, climate, or habitat; in hot and cold, at all times, always; neither in hot ne cold, never; (b) a cold spell of weather; (c) coldness of an object, esp. as felt. …

Coldness (of air, climate, an object); actual coldnesse. …

(a) The act or process of joining, combining, or uniting two or more things; the fact of being joined or united, a union; (b) sexual union or intercourse; (c) a juncture or joint. …

(a) Preparation, planning, arranging; also, a plan or arrangement; taken disposicioun, to make arrangements; (b) construction or execution according to a plan; building (of a city); structure (of the……

(a) Disagreement in sentiment or opinion; esp., overt dissension, quarreling, civil strife; maken (meven, setten)dissencioun; fallen at (upon) dissencioun, to start to quarrel; (b) a disagreement……

(a) Dregs, lees; sediment, scum; -- usually pl.; (b) the refuse of grapes after the juice has been pressed out; drastes of honi, wax; (c) dirt, refuse; also, garbage (?or mast) fed to hogs; (d) fig.……

(a) Dry or clear weather; in wet and drie, in all kinds of weather, rain or shine; also, the dry heat of the sun, dryness, drought; (b) dry land, land (as opposed to sea); (c) dead wood. …

(a) The state of being dry or dried out; (b) dryness of weather, drought; (c) dry land (as opposed to sea); (d) desert; (e) dead wood. …

Dry weather or season; a dry spell; drought. …

Phys. and biol. The properties characteristic of the 'element' earth. …

Phys. Waste matter. …

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

(a) The floor of a room or building; i(n the flor, on the floor, to the floor; bar flor, paved flor, etc.; bour flor, dortour flor, temple flor, etc.; the bottom of a coffin [quot.: c1250]; (b) flor……

(a) Act of creating or making, creation, production; (b) fig. creator. …

(a) A step in a stairway or flight of steps; also, a flight of steps; song (canticle) of gres, one of the Gradual Psalms; gre bi gre, from gre to gre, step by step; (b) a rung of a ladder; also fig.……

(a) Heat; warmth from the sun, a fire, etc.; in chele and in hete, in hete and in cold, in all circumstances; (b) fig. of emotions, virtue, sin, devotion, etc.: intensity, ardor; (c) excessive heat……

(a) Hotness of the atmosphere, hot weather; heat as perceptible to the touch; (b) in hot and cold, through thick and thin, at all times; neither in hot ne cold, never; for hot ne cold, for any reason……

(a) High temperature, heat; the sensation of heat; (b) phys., med. dominant hot quality; also, of a medicine: the degree of hot quality. …

(a) Control, dominance, rulership; geten maistri unto, to grant (the kingship) to (sb.); haven maistri; (b) preeminence, status, prestige; (c) authority, warrant; (d) the upper hand, victory in a……

(a) Moisture, wetness; something moist or wet; the moist part of something; dampness, humidity; grutti moistur, mud; (b) of trees and plants: the moistness, wetness; juiciness; sap; (c) a bodily……

(a) Character, nature, state, or condition; an inherent attribute; innere qualite, ?inner state; [quot.: Barth., last, may belong with sense 3.(a)]; outre qualite, outer state; qualite of the colour……

(a) Release from duty or obligation; freeing of captives; Bibl. dai of remissioun, a holiday from work; yer of remissioun, a Jubilee year; also, a Sabbatical year; don (maken) remissioun, to grant……

(a) The faculty of sight, ability to see; also fig.; also in proverb; spirit (vertu) of sight; (b) sight as one of the five senses; sight eie, eyesight; sight of bodi (eie), bodilich sight, physical……

(a) Water as a naturally occurring substance; water as a medium for preparing recipes, soaking, etc.; also, a fluid with properties similar to those of water (b) a naturally occurring body of water,……

(a) Moisture, dampness, wetness; also fig. and in fig. context; haven wetnes, to endure a dousing (b) phys. & astron. the primary quality of wetness inherent in all things; (c) the moisture or……