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1. almes(se n.

Additional spellings: almesse
144 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) Anything given to relieve those in poverty or distress, any charitable gift or offering, alms; an allotment of alms; eten almes, be dependent on alms; gan on almes, liven bi, of almes, live on……

2. amatist(e n.

Additional spellings: amatiste
18 quotations in 1 sense
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Amethyst; amatist colour, amatist ston. …

3. amidǒun n.

11 quotations in 1 sense
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Crushed hulled wheat; grits, starch. …

4. artetīk, -ica adj. & n.

Additional spellings: artetica, arthetica, arthretica, aretica
8 quotations in 1 sense
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Arthritic, rheumatic; arthritis, rheumatism; goute artetik, arthritis, gout. …

5. celidoine n.(1)

33 quotations in 3 senses
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The greater celandine (Chelidonium majus); also, any of its parts used medicinally. …

6. coloquint(ide n.

Additional spellings: coloquintide
6 quotations in 1 sense
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The plant colocynth (Citrullus colocynthis) or its fruit or pith. …

7. demigraine n.

4 quotations in 1 sense
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A severe ache on one side of the head, migraine. …

8. ditain(e n.

Additional spellings: ditaine
19 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) One of two medicinal plants: dittany of Crete (Origanum dictamnus) and/or white dittany (Dictamnus albus); (b) lesse ditain, costmary (Chrysanthemum balsamita). …

9. dragaunt n.

14 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The gum tragacanth; muscilage dragaunt; (b) some kind of vitriol; calcantum dragaunt, vitriol dragaunt. …

10. emigraine, -grāne n.

Additional spellings: emigrane
4 quotations in 1 sense
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A severe headache, orig. one affecting one side only. …

11. heremī̆t(e n.

Additional spellings: heremite
76 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A man who, from religious motives, lives in relative solitude; a male Christian recluse, a hermit; (b) holi heremit, a pious hermit; (c) a false hermit; one who has not renounced human society, or……

12. īconomī(e n.

Additional spellings: iconomie
2 quotations in 1 sense
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The management of economic affairs, housekeeping. …

13. ī̆dō̆latrī(e n.

Additional spellings: idolatrie
30 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The worship of man-made statues, paintings, or other objects; idolatry; also, the personification of idolatry; don idolatri, to practice idolatry; (b) an idolatrous religion or cult [sometimes……

14. malencolī(e n.

Additional spellings: malencolie
99 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) One of the four humors, black bile; a bodily fluid which helps to form and nourish the body; -- not pathological unless present in excessive amounts; also, an altered form of black bile [see (b)]……

15. piretrum n.

7 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The medicinal root, pellitory or pellitory of Spain Anacyclus pyrethrum; also, the herb pellitory of the wall Parietaria officinalis or a similar plant; (b) wild thyme Thymus serpyllum. …

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