Surg. (a) The act or process of cleansing a wound or sore, the removal of pus or other impurities by means of cleansing medicines; (b) a detergent or cleansing property. …

(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……

(a) A billet or shingle; astel shid; (b) firewood; (c) surg. a splint. …

(a) A fetter, shackle, chain; also fig.; (b) a band or strap of metal, a hoop, clamp, fastening; (c) a circlet or fillet to confine the hair; (d) a cord for tying or fastening; a bandage, rope, withy……

Surg. Pathologically hardened tissue. …

Surg. (a) A hollow sheath or tube through which a suturing needle or a cauterizing instrument is passed; fenestred canule, a tube with a hole, or window, in the side; (b) a tube inserted in the body……

(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……

(a) A box, chest, casket, case; as a case, like a chest, as big as a chest; corporal case, corporas case, a case or container for a corporal cloth; (b) a quiver for arrows; a case for bows or bows and……

(a) The bed of a river or of the sea; (b) a navigable channel in the estuary of a river. …

Surg. A knife-shaped cauterizing instrument. …

(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. …

Surg. Covering blemishes with cosmetics, beautification. …

(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) Defense against physical attack; (b) reply, refutation; (c) fig. help; protection against temptation, sorrow, etc.; (d) punishment; (e) surg. a preventive measure or medicine. …

(a) That which defends, defense; (b) surg. a covering, protection. …

(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. …

Surg. (a) A cut or crack; lesion, rupture; (b) an incision. …

Surg. A lancet used for letting blood. …

Surg. (a) A membranous husk sloughed off after a bone operation; (b) the sac surrounding an encysted abscess. …

(a) The act or process of procreation; procreating or being procreated; reproduction; also, sexual intercourse; bastard generacioun, crossbreeding; fleshli generacioun, physical begetting; dede (werk)……

Med. & surg. (a) Watering of the eyes; (b) the moistening of bodily tissues, production of moisture in tissues. …

(a) Moistness, dampness; (b) anat. & med. the primary quality of moistness. …

Phil. (a) Employing mental images; vertu imaginatif, the ability to form and retain images formed from data supplied from the senses or the communis sensus; also, the faculty of combining images into……

(a) That which hinders or prevents; an obstacle, a difficulty, hindrance; also coll. obstacles; sauns impediment, without hindrance; withouten impediment of, unhindered by (sth.); don impediment unto……

Surg. A blunt, concave instrument for driving an arrow or the like out of the body. …

(a) A tax, charge, duty, tribute; (b) the levying of a tax, charge, duty, or tribute. …

Surg. Retention of pus, gathering. …

(a) Theol. The Christian doctrine that God became man, Christ's incarnation; cristes incarnacioun, incarnacioun of the lord, etc.; taken incarnacioun of, to assume human form from (the Blessed……

Surg. (a) The act of cutting into a bodily part; (b) a surgical operation; (c) a slash, cut; also, a cut made in surgery; (d) that which is cut off in circumcision, the prepuce. …

(a) A raising agent in the making of bread; leaven, sourdough; also, bread dough; levain bred, leavened bread; (b) med. & surg. a fermenting substance used in applications to encourage suppuration……

(a) A lever, crowbar; (b) a bar used as a weapon; (c) a carrying pole; (d) a straightedge, an instrument for smoothing or levelling a surface; (e) surg. = levatorie; (f) ?a stout post. …

Surg. A morbid smallness or shrinking. …

(a) Surg. Enlargement; (b) enhancement of fame, glory. …

(a) A hammer; usually, a heavy iron hammer used for driving posts, breaking rocks, etc.; a sledge hammer, a maul; (b) a kind of mace, a hammerlike club made of (or tipped with) iron or lead; (c) surg.……

(a) The common maple (Acer campestre); maser tre; (b) the wood of the maple, maple; other highly-grained hardwood; (c) surg. a piece of maple wood inserted in the skull to replace shattered bone; pece……

(a) The wick of a candle or lamp; (b) surg. = lichine. …

(a) Med. & surg. The menstrual flow, menstruation; -- also used in pl.; time of menstrue, a menstrual period; (b) alch. one of three subtle substances used in various alchemical processes. …

(a) Metallic; (b) surg. of medicines: containing metal or a metal compound; as noun: metalline medicines. …

Surg. An instrument used for cauterizing, a cautery. …

Med. & surg. (a) Soothing, lenitive; (b) as noun: a soothing preparation, palliative. …

Med. & surg. (a) Stinging, irritation, distress; (b) corrosiveness, causticity. …

(a) Death; (b) renunciation of self and the world; mortificacioun of the flesh (bodi), mortificacioun of sinne, penitential asceticism. …

Surg. (a) The process of cleansing a wound or sore, esp. by removing pus; (b) the cleansing property of a medicinal substance. …

Med. & surg. (a) A cleansing substance used internally or externally; (b) an ointment, plaster, powder, or liquid for cleansing a wound or ulcer; mundificatif de apio, mundificatif of smal ache,……

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

(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……

Med. and surg. Obstruction or blockage in a wound, the gall bladder, etc.; an obstruction or obstructed condition of a nerve, etc.; opilacioun superficiale, an external obstruction. …

Anat. & surg. (a) The opening of a wound; (b) the aperture or cavity of an ulcer, fistula, or festering sore; (c) aperture(s(s in an organ, vein, or duct of the body; orifice of the emoroides, the……

(a) A pointed tool, used for piercing or boring; an awl, a gimlet, an auger; also, a spike on a horse's armor; also personified; percer iren, ?part of the ironwork of a window; (b) an invader; (c) sur……

(a) A rod, pole, staff; a fixed horizontal rod for hanging cloth, clothing, armor, cord, etc.; a fuller's rod; a pole supporting vines; a rod supporting the body of a cart above the axletree [quot……

(a) A pillar or column, either weight-bearing or free-standing; a pedestal; tre piler, piler of tre, a wooden pillar or post; (b) fig. a source of support, a supporter; the beam in the eye as referred……

(a) A natural or man-made depression in the ground, hole, pit, ditch; cave; also fig.; also, an open excavation from which some mineral product is obtained or in which some industrial process is……

Surg. A soft pad of wool, hards, cotton, etc., used on wounds; a compress, pledget. …

(a) A small dot marked on a surface; also, a punctuation mark, period; (b) a small hole; prick, puncture; the pointes of peines, ?the marks of Christ's wounds; (c) a spot of dirt; med. a round spot or……

(a) A writing implement; stylus; ?pen or pencil; (b) a punch; (c) surg. and med. a sharp pointed instrument used for administering medicines, scraping, probing, etc.; (d) a pointed implement for……

(a) A statement of belief; proposition; bi grace of posicioun, for the sake of argument; (b) location; anat. and surg. with reference to a part of the body: location, positioning. …

(a) Latent, potential; (b) surg. of a cautery or cauterizing agent: being a caustic or escharotic medicine used as an alternative to a hot iron; potencial cauterie, cauterie potencial. …

(a) A commandment regulating human conduct, precept; esp. a divine command or injunction; one of the Ten Commandments; a precept as distinguished from a counsel [cp. counseil 5. (e)]; a rule of……

(a) A preliminary act or operation, a previous setting in order; also, a precautionary measure; (b) med. & surg. the action or process of preparing a wound, an injury, etc., for treatment; the action……

(a) A crowd, throng, company, an assembly; also, the assembling or gathering of a crowd; also, a group of things; (b) amid (among(es, in, in middes) presse, among or in a crowd; into presse, in among……

(a) Exertion of pressure, an act of pressing; -- used fig.; squeezing something into a tight space; also, pressure felt in an area of the body; (b) the pressing of wine; (c) suffering, distress……

(a) Incitement, urging; (b) prayer for forgiveness, supplication; (c) med. & surg. the inducing of a bodily function; stimulation of the hemorrhoidal veins; (d) law an appeal, esp. to a higher court……

(a) Relief from distress, trouble, pain, etc., help, alleviation; a remedy for a situation, means of relief; means of evading a difficulty, solution, recourse; alternative; bi remedi of, by means of……

Surg. Softening of a bodily part. …

(a) A general principle governing morals and conduct; also, fig. of Christ: a model or norm for morality; (b) a particular rule of conduct, a moral precept; reule of largesse (prudence); (c) a set of……

Surg. A cutting instrument, esp. one used in cutting holes in the cranium. …

Med. & surg.: (a) The breaking of a bodily swelling or bliser; (b) rupture of a vein, the cornea, etc.; (c) hernia, rupture; rupturedindimal (inguinale), hernia in the groin region; (d) a bone……

(a) A divine plan; a divine archetype or pattern; (b) an earthly copy of a divine archetype; also, an earthly representation [1st quot.]. …

Surg. The making of shallow incisions in a part of the body as a means of letting blood, scarification. …

(a) A severing, cutting apart, detaching; the act of cutting apart [2nd quot.]; avoidance [quot.: c1460]; also, physical circumcision [1st quot.]; maken separacioun, to make a separation; (b) med. a……

(a) A symbol; in significacioun, as a symbol, symbolizing; (b) symbolic meaning; also, interpretation [quots.: Lydg.Pilgr.]; (c) symbolization, representation; a gret significacioun, an important……

Surg. The act of setting a bone; in his due situacioun, in its correct position after setting. …

(a) An explanation, answer; also, a reason [quot.: ?a1425]; also, the act of answering a question [last quot.]; (b) an interpretation of a dream. …

Cook. An implement for stirring, a spatula; surg. an instrument used to apply ointments or to clean wounds; also, an instrument for cutting or lancing [quot. ?c1425]; (b) the shoulder bone of an……

Surg. (a) An instrument used to mix the ingredients of medicines, to apply or remove ointments, etc.; (b) an instrument used for cutting or lancing. …

(a) Pl. The refuse or coarser parts of flax or hemp, hards; stupe of tou; (b) pl. hards of flax or hemp prepared and used as the raw material for cloth, tow; (c) surg. a small piece of cloth made from……

(a) The action of maintaining someone in power; (b) surg. a supporting bandage, binding, or similar device used to stabilize a part of the body. …

Surg. A probe. …

(a) Med. A roll of some soft material, usu. linen or wax, sometimes medicated, placed in or near a wound to keep it open while it heals; a similar roll used as a suppository [quot. a1475]; also, a……

(a) A piece of cloth used to wipe something dry; washinge touail, a piece of cloth for wiping or cleansing something [see also washing(e ger. 2.]; (b) a cloth of the length of a table, chiefly for……

A turn, rotation, or revolution about an axis or center; welkenes turn, the turning of the heavens. …

(a) Political or ecclesiastical unity; harmony, concord; also, a state of peace; (b) an agreement, accord; also, the settlement of a dispute, reconciliation; also, a reconciliation of God and man. …

Surg. The act of drawing blood or other matter by means of a cupping glass. …

Surg. (a) An instrument for drawing blood or other matter out of the body, a cupping glass; ventose box (b) a similar instrument used to apply suction to a body part without promoting bleeding; (c)……

(a) Surg. One who draws blood by means of a cupping glass; (b) as surname. …

(a) An auger used in woodworking, a gimlet, wimble; also person.; axel-man wimble, a wheelwright’s wimble; frensh wimble, ?a specially adapted variety of wimble associated with French designs or……