The aorta. …

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. …

See quot. …

The root of the plant Iris pseudacorus. …

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

Divination by air, aeromancy. …

(a) The Hagiographa of Hebrew Scripture (comprising the Psalms, Proverbs, Daniel, etc.), as distinct from the Laws and the Prophets; (b) Holy Scripture. …

See quot. …

(a) The stone alabaster; (b) an alabaster container for chrism or ointment; (c) a medicament containing powdered alabaster. …

The sea eagle or fish hawk [for other medieval opinions see first quot.]. …

To interpret (sth.) in the spiritual sense. …

(a) Falling of the hair; (b) a form of leprosy. …

The name given to the great astronomical treatise of Ptolemy; also applied to other astron. works. …

(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). …

Amethyst; amatist colour, amatist ston. …

A plant of the genus Ammi; bishop's-weed. …

Crushed hulled wheat; grits, starch. …

A fabled two-headed snake [see quot.]. …

Ambiguous. …

An ambiguity. …

Pharm. In the same amount. …

The marking nut Semecarpus anacardium; mel anacardi, oleum anacardium, theodoricon anacardin. …

See quot. …

The highest of the four levels of Biblical exegesis; highest or mystical interpretation or meaning. …

Of Biblical exegesis: highest or mystical (interpretation or meaning). …

A disorder regarded as a form of epilepsy [see epilencie]. …

A form of dropsy; anasarca. …

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. …

Hermaphrodite. …

Pyrites. …

A recluse. …

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……

(a) An antelope or a representation of it, as in a coat of arms; (b) the bearer of such a coat of arms [here Henry IV]; (c) see quot. …

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……

Med. The anthers or the pollen of the rose, used as a stiptic. …

In several words taken from ML, as anti-crist, anti-dotarie, anti-phonere, anti-pope. …

Blood-letting performed on the corresponding opposite side of the body. …

= antispasis. …

A religious sect [see quot.]. …

Renunciation, abandonment, violation, or neglect of an established religious faith or one of its doctrines; fallen in apostasie, walken in apostasie. …

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

An antiseptic ointment prepared in various ways (orig. of 12 ingredients); Apostles' ointment. …

A decoction. …

Destroyer (a Greek epithet of the Devil). …

The master of the feast at Cana in Galilee (John 2.1-10); -- both as common noun and proper name. …

Rule by the virtuous, aristocracy; usen aristogracie. …

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

A plaster or poultice of bread and honey. …

The constellation Boötes; cp. bere-ward. …

Pathol. A collection of serous fluid in the peritoneal cavity; dropsy of the abdomen; ascites. …

Difficulty of breathing, asthma. …

Native asphalt; aspalt gleu. …

(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 garden herb of the mint family, basil. …

An ointment [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……

A red astringent earth, Armenian bole (used as a styptic, etc.); bol armoniac. …

A kind of small pustule; in pl.: small gatherings of pus under the skin having some resemblance to a cluster of grapes. …

(a) An inflammatory swelling, an ulcerous sore (as in the bubonic plague, in venerial disease, etc.); bubo, ulcer, canker; (b) the groin. …

An insect that causes a disease of cattle. …

Morbid humors; diseased condition of humors. …

A Scriptural bird. …

A kind of black gem. …

(a) A chameleon; (b) a giraffe. …

Catalepsy. …

Med. Any disease characterized by inflammation of, and discharge from, the mucous membranes of the head and throat. …

To instruct (sb.) in the Christian religion, catechize. …

Med. A poultice containing herbs, a cataplasm. …

Med. Descending, falling; cathesial opilacioun, cathesial stopping, an obstruction of the post-nasal passages by the descent of humors from the brain. …

(a) A general treatise (as of grammar, vocabulary, etc.); (b) the title of a work, prob. the encyclopedic work (also known as the "Summa Grammaticalis") of the twelfth-century grammarian Johannes……

(a) Of the doctrines of the Roman Church: universally accepted or to be so accepted; true (faith); (b) of persons: having the 'true' faith; (c) catholik doctour, a Church Father. …

Pathol. A kind of chronic fever. …

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

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

Chyle. …

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

A herb, prob. the fleawort (Plantago psyllium). …

Physiol. A 'humor'; the 'humors' collectively; god chime metes, foods producing good 'humors'; ivel chime bodi, a body suffering from bad 'humors'. …

(a) A sac or bladder; (b) a morbid vesicle, cyst. …

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

A period of 1000 years, millenium. …

Burial ground, graveyard, cemetery; cimiterie garth. …

A tree, variously identified. …

Chiromancy, palmistry. …

Med. (a) A clyster, enema; any medicinal liquid administered through the rectum; (b) the instrument for injecting such liquids, a sort of syringe. …

Med. (a) A clyster, enema; any medicinal liquid administered through the rectum; (b) the instrument for injecting such liquids, a sort of syringe; clisteri purs, the bag or bladder of a clyster; (c)……

(a) A kind of glue or size; (b) trickery, a trick or ruse. …

The plant colocynth (Citrullus colocynthis) or its fruit or pith. …

A cone. …

Skull, cranium. …

(a) Med. Of a disease: at the turning point for better or worse, at the crisis; (b) as noun: bi wei of cretik, at the critical or decisive stage, at the crisis. …

A precious stone, any of the gems called chrysolite. …

Anat. The crystalline humor, the substance of the crystalline lens of the eye. …

Eccl. Christ, have mercy on us; -- part of the Kyrie eleison in the liturgy. …

(a) St. Christopher; Cristofre dai, the festival of this saint, July 25; (b) a small image of St. Christopher; (c) a plant of the genus Lysimachia; Cristofre the male, herbe Cristofre male, ?the……