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. Assimilation (of nutriments). …

(a) An attribute; (b) physiol. quality of 'humors'. …

(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……

physiol. Warmth, heat. …

(a) Coldness of air, weather, or climate; in hete and chele, in hot and cold weather, all the time; (b) a cold spell or blast, frost. …

Physiol. A 'humor'; the 'humors' collectively; god chime metes, foods producing good 'humors'; ivel chime bodi, a body suffering from bad 'humors'. …

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

(a) Physiol. The sphenoidal air sinus; (b) a duct. …

(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. …

(a) Coolness; (b) physiol. 'coldness' [see cold adj. 7]. …

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

(a) Low temperature, coldness; (b) physiol. predominance of 'cold' primary quality [see cold adj. 7]; or a morbid condition caused by it; (c) predominant 'cold' quality (of a planet). …

(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. …

Gram. & rhet. (a) Formation or construction of a sentence; rightful (order of) construccioun, normal order of syntactic elements; (b) a rhetorical figure; figure of construccioun. …

(a) An action, a deed; god dede, ivel dede, etc.; see also almes dede, est dede, man dede, mis dede; (b) a marvelous act, miracle; also, a feat of magic; (c) a favor, kindness, service; (d) ?an……

Loss of life; dying, death as an event; deth of the bodi, deth of lif; dout (dred) of deth, fear of dying; paien the dette of deth, to die as man must die; dethes cares, throes of death. …

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) 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) The organ of vision, the eye; (b) bodili (erthli, fleshes, fleshli, outer) eie. …

The sense of sight, the capacity for seeing, eyesight; erthli eie-sight, fleshes eie-sight. …

(a) Astron. Angular distance; (b) physiol. extension, spreading; (c) ?longing. …

Physiol. Any part of the body through which waste matter from one of the principal organs (e.g. brain, heart, liver) is excreted, a cleansing or purging organ. …

(a) A flowing body of water; river, stream; the flod of Temse, the River Thames; the channel or current of a river; ston of flod, river stone; (b) the sea; salt flod, se flod, a sea or ocean; (c) any……

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

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

(a) The eighth letter in the alphabet; (b) used to designate the eighth article in a series, to mark silver, or to designate one of the squares on a chessboard; (c) as an abbreviation for a word……

(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……

Physiol. The taking in of food, regarded as the first step in the digestive process. …

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

(a) Animate existence, vitality, life; also, the vegetable and animal life effected in a human being by the natural or vital spirit [cp. ld.]; also personified; lif and deth, the entire fate (of sb.)……

(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……

Physiol. Caustic or corrosive action or quality. …

(a) Food or drink, sustenance; (b) physiol. nourishment, nutrients, nutriment; nutrition; as adj.: bearing nutriment; nutriment blod. …

Anat. and physiol. The nutritive members of the body. …

(a) Anat. and physiol. A nutritive member of the body, an organ whose function is to nourish the body; (b) nourishing food, nourishment. …

Anat. and physiol. The nutritive members of the body. …

(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) Unity, oneness, singularity; also, the number one, unity; in on-hed, as one, as a single person or entity [quot.: Cleanness]; single of on-hed, simple in nature; (b) theol. unity of being or……

(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. …

(a) Sharpness, keenness; also fig.; also, prickliness; (b) the sharp point of a spear, knife, etc.; the sharp edge of a sword, an ax, or a surgical instrument; the tapered end of an egg or the heart……

(a) A missile, such as an arrow, a dart, spear, cannon projectile, etc.; also fig.; -- often coll.; shot of honde, darts, javelins, etc.; casting shot, a missile; sheten (oute) shot; (b) coll. weapons……

(a) The sky, heavens, firmament; -- often pl.; also fig.; ski of night, darkness, night; al the wateres under the ski, all the rivers, etc. in the world; bi o side of the ski, in the same quadrant of……

(a) The intellectual faculty, reason; also person.; wit and skil; (b) skil wille (lereth, mot sen), reason demands (teaches, might discover); skil witnesse, reason; -- ?error for skil-wisnes n.; a……

Physiol. A vesica, bladder; skipet of galle, the gall bladder. …

(a) Smoke produced by a burning or smoldering substance; aromatic smoke of incense; a column or cloud of smoke; a variety of smoke; also fig.; also in proverbs; smek hous, a smokehouse; -- used fig.……

(a) Smoke produced by a burning or smoldering substance; also fig.; smoke and smorther (smolder), smorther and smoke; (b) a puff, cloud, or column of smoke; ben on a smoke, to be emotionally……

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) A particular part of space, of definite location though often of unspecified extent; a specific place on land, in the sea, or in the air; an area, a region; a spot, locality; also fig.; (b) a……

(a) Rigidity, inflexibility; hardness; (b) med. & physiol. inelasticity or lack of suppleness in the body or its parts; pathological difficulty in moving; (c) strength; also, strength of character……

(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) The action of moderating the excessive degree of a quality in a bodily component; the regulation of the vital spirit of the body; (b) a moderate or an intermediate level with respect to qualities……

(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). …

Physiol. Those components of the humors derived from the element of earth. …

Physiol. The combination of coldness and dryness characteristic of the element of earth and the corresponding humor of melancholy; also, alch. earthen substance [last quot.]. …

(a) One of the three dimensions of a solid object, depth as opposed to length and breadth; also fig.; also, the diameter of a spherical object; (b) comparatively great depth; comparatively great……

That which exists by itself, a substance; a kind of substance. …

Physiol. Chyle. …

Physiol. Swallowing, deglutition. …

(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……

(a) Pathol. Pus; also, a thin, watery discharge from a festering sore, ichor; (b) physiol. semen. …

Physiol. Natural metabolic heat or warmth. …

(a) Heat, warmth; also fig. and in fig. context; (b) physiol. metabolic heat, bodily warmth; (c) a comfortable state; specif. prosperity, material wealth. …

(a) Water as a naturally occurring element or substance; water as opposed to the other elements;—also pl.; wateres froren, the ice thought to surround the earth [quot. a1325] (b) precipitation;……

Physiol. (a) In humoral theory, the natural property of containing moisture; also, the quality of moistness [cp. aquosite n.] (b) the liquid constituent of the body, or the overabundance of it; also,……

(a) The physical property of containing a high percentage of water; the property or state of containing excess water; also, a superfluity of liquid, excess water; the watery component of a substance……

Physiol. Morbid retention of fluid; also, excess fluid retained within the body. …

The watery component of a substance; physiol. excessive natural or humoral moisture in the body; also, excessive aqueous content in a bodily fluid; superflue waternesse. …

(a) A discrete act performed or undertaken by someone, (someone’s) deed; coll. & pl. (one’s) individual acts, deeds, or actions, the things one does or has done in one’s life, (one’s) doings; also……

(a) One who acts, a doer; one who behaves in a particular way; the doer (of a deed); a perpetrator (of wickedness); a worker (of miracles) (b) one who acts in contrast to one who remains inactive, an……

(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) The appetitive and volitional faculty of the soul;—often as contrasted with reason, imagination, etc.; also in fig. context; also person.; volition; also, the soul in its appetitive operations……

(a) The expressed juice or sap of a plant, root, fruit, etc.;—often used medicinally; also, liquid extracted from animal dung used as a medicine; bark wos, an infusion of tan bark; celidoine wos……