(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……

Aloe: (a) the tree; (b) the juice or resin of the tree, aloes; (c) med. the drug aloes; aloe caballinum (cicotrine, epatik). …

(a) A ship's anchor; casten, laien, senden out anker; drauen up, halen, highen, pullen up, taken up, weien (up) anker; riden at, bi, on anker; (b) a weight; (c) a fastening device, a mooring. …

A recluse. …

A musical composition based upon a scriptural text, sung in the Church Offices before each psalm and often repeated after the psalm, or after each verse of the psalm [see Karl Young, The Drama of the……

One of the Twelve Apostles of Christ; apostles twelve; also, a missionary or evangelist of the early Church, such as St. Paul; apostle of Engelonde; apostle of hethen men; apostolene prince. …

(a) The box tree (Buxus sempervirens) or its wood; box tre; box table, a tablet of boxwood (for inscriptions); (b) rendering L sambucus 'elder' erroneously. …

A jar (for salves, cosmetics, spices, etc.), usually cylindrical. …

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

Chervil Anthriscus cerefolium, used as a pot-herb and in medicaments. …

The herb costmary Chrysanthemum balsamita. …

A precious stone, chrysoprase. …

(a) Christ; Crist Jesu(s, Drighten Crist, Helend Crist, Jesu(s Crist, (our) Lord Crist, our Lord Jesu Crist; (b) Cristes bodi (lichame), the Sacrament of bread; Cristes bok, the Gospels; Cristes……

A medicinal plant; prob., the south European fleawort (Plantago psyllium). …

(a) Eccl. A deacon; (b) one who reads the Gospel in divine worship; (c) as surname. …

Satan, the Devil; -- often without the in early ME. …

(a) The Phoenix [see the Barth. quots.]; also a representation of it; (b) said of a woman of unique beauty; applied to the Virgin Mary; (c) said to be the name of a long-lived palm tree. …

(a) The root of the plant Zingiber officinale or of a related species, ginger; poudre (of) gingivere, finely ground ginger; race (rote) of gingivere, a root of ginger; (b) grene gingivere, gingivere……

A monastery; a nunnery; ?also, a hermitage; also, the premises of such a religious community; nonnes minster, a nunnery or convent. …

Nard, the East Indian spikenard; precious ointment derived from Nardostachys jatamansi; also, any medicinal plant of the genus Valeriana; nard celtike, Celtic spikenard (V. celtica); treu nard, East……

(a) Personal name; -- often replacing Nicol in later ME; also, name of a ship; (b) seint Nicholas, St. Nicholas, bishop of Myra in Asia Minor; seint Nicholas chirche, chirche of seint Nicholas, a……

The white water lily Nymphæa alba. …

(a) The seventh Sunday after Easter, the Feast of the Descent of the Holy Ghost, Pentecost, Whitsunday; heigh) feste of pente-cost; (b) the Jewish holiday, fifty days after Passover, celebrating the……

(a) St. Peter; also one of the Epistles of Peter [quot.: PPl.A(1)]; -- also as personal name; seint Peter; seint petres suster, ?a personification of the White Paternoster; (b) feste of seint Peter,……

A philosopher or a scholar. …

(a) A cleric ranking below a bishop and above a deacon; a priest functioning as a parish priest, chaplain, chantry priest, etc.; (b) in combination with other religious types, ranks, and orders: clerk……

(a) One of the Psalms of the Book of Psalms; (b) seien Psalm, to sing a Psalm; also, recite a Psalm; seiere of psalmes, a singer of Psalms; singen Psalm, sing a Psalm; praise (God) with a Psalm; don……

(a) Samson, the name of a biblical Hebrew hero, often used with allusion to his great strength; also, used to imitate drunken snoring [quot.: CT.Pard.]; (b) as surname. …

A plant of the genus Scolymus, perh. the Spanish oyster plant (Scolymus hispanicus). …

Water germander (Teucrium scordium); also [quot.: a1398], an uncultivated member of the genus Allium; ?crow garlic (Allium vineale). …

The plant scarlet pimpernel Anagallis arvensis. …

(a) The digraph th; the letter þ or ð of the alphabet, thorn; (b) an abbrev. for that pron., rel. pron., conj., etc. …

A drug used as an antidote for poisonous animal bites. …

A medicinal plant, prob. of the genus Gladiolus; ?unbranched bur reed (Sparganium emersum). …