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……

Physiol. & psych. An inherent urge or drive attributed to the various organs of the body (such as the genitals, the stomach, the senses), to the mental 'faculties', or to the organism as a whole……

Physiol. (a) The 'quality' of being inherently 'moist'; (b) the liquid constituent of the body, or overabundance of it; also, serous fluid. …

physiol. Warmth, heat. …

(a) A private apartment or room; bedchamber; closet dore; (b) a private chamber (of an official); (c) a monastic cell. …

(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. …

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) Power to dispose of wealth; (b) eccl. stewardship; (c) physiol. function. …

(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……

Physiol. (a) The imbalance of humors or of qualities; (b) a morbid condition due to this imbalance; (c) excess of one quality. …

(a) The act or processes of splitting or breaking up; branching (of arteries, streams); (b) separability, divisibility; (c) math. the process of dividing numbers, division; (d) hunt. the ceremonious……

(a) Dear, beloved; douce amour, sweetheart; (b) douce Fraunce, beloved France; (c) douce vie, luxurious life; (d) as noun: paramour; foul douce, filthy harlot; (e) in surnames. …

(a) Smoke; also fig.; (b) aromatic smoke (of incense). …

(a) Vapor; exhalation (of the sea, of a medicinal herb); (b) odorous vapor, fume. …

Physiol. The fold or depression between the abdomen and the thigh, the groin; also, the glandular flesh of the groin. …

(a) A high official, civil or military; a governor, ruler, leader; also, of a ship: maister of the flete, the flagship; (b) applied to God, Christ, a heathen god; (c) one in charge of a guild……

(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) A sex organ; sg. penis; also, foreskin [quot.: c1425]; also, vagina, vulva; pl. male or female genitalia; also, testicles; (b) manli (privi, secret, shamefast, shameful, sinful) membres; membre of……

(a) An opportunity for an action, sin, virtue, debate, etc.; an opportunity for trouble [quot.: (a1420)]; (b) opportunity personified; balled occasioun. …

(a) A secular position of authority or responsibility; an official post in government or administration; a position of importance in a great household; boke of offices, Cicero's De Officiis; maister……

(a) Work, deed(s, action(s; a military operation; also fig.; don operacioun(es, to perform (one's) deed(s, conduct (oneself), behave; (b) spiritual labor(s; (c) a scientific, alchemical, or magical……

(a) An opening, aperture; (b) med. & physiol. an opening made in an aposteme to promote healing; also, an internal passage of the body [last quot.]. …

(a) Cleansing; also, the scouring or refinement of metal; also, the purification of the philosopher's stone; (b) a disposal site, a garbage dump; (c) maken a purgacioun of, to dispose of (filth)……

(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) What remains of a thing or group of things, what is left; the rest; -- also pl.; residue of eruke, what the caterpillar leaves; (b) the remaining part of an estate not specifically bequeathed; (c)……

Med. & physiol.: (a) The act or process of breathing, inhalation and exhalation of air by the lungs; also, pl. acts or instances of breathing; (b) peripheral or insensible respiration, believed to be……

Physiol. The quality of being serous or whey-like. …

Anat. & physiol. (a) The male seminal fluid; passinge (shedinge) of sperme, ?sperme shedinge, emission of semen; (b) the spermatozoa; -- used as a sg.; also, the ovum; mannes (wommanes) sperme; (c)……

(a) Life, the principle of life; vital breath, a vital breath; also, the principle of animation, soul; also, a giver of life [quot. a1425(a1400)]; spirit of lif (quiknesse); (b) a living, rational……

(a) Dissension, discord, contention; quarreling; hostility, enmity; withouten strif, peacefully; ?peaceful [next to last quot.]; (b) civil disorder; political dispute; religious conflict; also, an……

(a) An excess in number or quantity, overabundance; also, an unnecessary number or part; (b) excess growth on a tree, the molt or exuviae cast off periodically by some animals, an excess number of……

(a) Restraint, forbearance, moderation, temperateness;— also pl.; a habit or practice of proper restraint or moderation [quot. c1475(c1450)]; (b) temperance as one of the cardinal virtues; also person……

(a) Moderation, temperance, self-control; (b) meekness, gentleness; (c) ?as adv.: moderately; ?error for tempre adj. (f). …

(a) Violent agitation, turbulence; (b) physiol. some kind of disordered bodily condition, ?a humoral disturbance; turbacioun of colour, ?the rush of blood to the face, flushing; ?blotchiness or……

(a) A moist substance arising from matter that has been heated; steam (b) water vapor drawn up naturally from the earth by the heat of the sun, forming mist, clouds, or precipitation; also, one of……

Physical strength, power; force, energy; also, vigor; also, stamina; vertu of bering (child-beringe), the strength to give birth. …

(a) A small, portable container, esp. one for storage or serving of food or drink; a flask, pitcher, jug, cup, dish, pot, etc.; a piece of household tableware, a kitchen utensil, etc.; also, an……