(a) A press for expressing juice from grapes, oil from olives, etc.; a wine press, oil press, etc.; also fig.; pressour hous, a building containing a wine press; (b) ?a cheese press; (c) a device for……

(a) Before the present, past; preterit time; (b) having to do with the past; (c) gram. of tense in Latin: denoting action in the past; preterit imparfit tens, the imperfect tense. …

(a) Observed or recorded evidence supporting a statement, an assertion, accusation, or a claim; a piece of such evidence; maken preve of, to give evidence of (sth.); (b) evidence such as instances……

(a) One who conducts tests or trials; (b) one who accuses another of a crime; often, a felon who gives evidence against his accomplices in exchange for a pardon; prever for the king, kinges prever……

(a) Eccl. One to whom the pope has granted the right to be appointed to a benefice as soon as a vacancy occurs; also, a religious to whom the pope has granted exemption from the duty of obedience to……

(a) To remove to a distance, put away; remove or entice away (a craftsman, an apprentice) from his proper master; remove or carry off (valuables), misappropriate (sth.); remove (a legal document) from……

(a) To foresee (sth.), foreknow; (b) to think beforehand, consider, reflect; refl. purveien of, bethink oneself of (sth.), reflect on; ppl. purveiinge, prudent, provident [quot.: a1500]; (c) to take……

(a) A group of sheets of paper, vellum, or parchment folded one within the other; writen quaier, to cover such a group with writing; (b) a gathering of a book or manuscript in a bound or an unbound……

(a) A sack stuffed with wool, down, hair, etc., used as a mattress, cushion, or coverlet for a bed; also, a stuffed bag used as defense against a battering ram [quots.: Vegetius(1) & (2)]; quiltes……

(a) The fifteenth day, inclusive, after a specified major liturgical feast; quinsime of seint hillar (jon, martin, mighel); quinsime of estern; quinsime of (after) pentecoste; (b) a period offifteen……

Leather boiled in water and then molded to the required form and hardened by drying, cuir-bouilli; -- used esp. as armor; quir-boili vessel, a container made of cuir-bouilli. …

Hunt. (a) The parts of a deer, usually placed on the animal's hide, which are given to the hounds as a reward for the chase; (b) the ceremony of giving the hounds their reward; (c) the collection of……

(a) A cushion, bolster, or pillow; a cushion for the arm or for sitting or kneeling on; also, a hassock or footstool; (b) quishin(es cloth, a case or cover for a cushion. …

A cook's assistant or errand boy, scullion; also, a page, lowly servant, knave; also, a sutler, camp follower; whel of quistrounes, a contemptuous epithet for the wheel of Fortune. …

To pull off (a helmet). …

(a) A grape, cluster of grapes; also in proverb; (b) a raisin; gret raisin; raisin graines, raisin seeds; (c) raisin corauns, raisin of corauns, a Corinthian raisin, currant [see also corauns n.]; (d)……

(a) The release of a prisoner of war by payment; also, fig. with payment in blood; bien raunsoun [see bien v. 1a.(a)]; maken raunsoun, to effect (one's) ransom; also fig.; proferen to raunsoun, offer……

(a) Robbery, rapine; also person.; don (usen) ravin; liven bi (of) ravin, to get a living from the profits of robbery; (b) an act of robbery; (c) in Bibl. transl. of Phil.2.6: robbery; ?usurpation……

(a) Of a king, one of the royal family, his power, dignity, etc.: majestic, royal, kingly; real blod, blod real [see also blod n. 6a.(a)]; real estat, estat real [see also estat n. 11d.]; real……

(a) A place of refuge, shelter, or accommodation; also fig.; (b) shelter, refuge, protection; asken recet, to request aid for (sb.); haven (taken) recet, obtain or take shelter, take refuge; (c) the……