Med. A gum made from the juice of green plums or sloes (used as an astringent, a restringent, or a repercussive). …

(a) The deadly sin of Sloth, a disinclination to do anything good; (b) a spell of lethargy or apathy. …

A cleric who has taken the highest of the four minor orders, an acolyte; also, the order itself. …

(a) A kind of precious stone; diamond; (b) adamant; fig. something indestructible and enduring, something impenetrable. …

Divination by air, aeromancy. …

(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……

Amethyst; amatist colour, amatist ston. …

Crushed hulled wheat; grits, starch. …

The science of anatomy; knowledge of the structure and the functioning of the human body in all its parts; grosse anatomie. [See definition in Lanfranc 1/9.] …

A maker of icons, etc. …

The antagonist of Christ who was predicted to come before Doomsday, gather a host to fight Christ and his followers, kill Enoch and Elias, devastate the world, and then succumb before Christ. [First……

Any morbid swelling or inflammation in any part of the body, external or internal. [a1400 Lanfranc & c1425 Arderne distinguish it from cankre & festre.] …

A decoction. …

Arthritic, rheumatic; arthritis, rheumatism; goute artetik, arthritis, gout. …

(a) Astrolabe [a planispheric instrument for determining the positions and movements of celestial bodies, calculating latitude and longitude, etc.; the most important astronomical instrument of the……

(a) Foreign, non-Greek; (b) heathen, non-Christian; -- perh. with implications of inhumanity; (c) barbar tonge [see quots.]. …

(a) The 'books' or writings of the Old and the New Testament, the Bible; half bible, a designation for ?or title of a portion of the Bible, probably the Old Testament; bible man, an interpreter of……

The greater celandine (Chelidonium majus); also, any of its parts used medicinally. …

A portable sun dial in the shape of an upright cylinder with a conical top [see L. Thorndike in Isis 13.51-2]. …

The chicory (Cichorium intybus); also, heliotrope. …