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……

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

(a) An accountant; esp., an official who oversees the collecting and auditing of taxes for a shire, a kingdom, etc.; (b) one who calculates, an arithmetician; (c) a pleader in court, a lawyer; (d) as……

Phoenicians. …

A common prefix in words derived from Latin or French; e.g., probleme, processionarie, progenitour, pronosticacioun, propugnacle, prosperite, provincial (nouns); profounde, prolixe, propicious,……

To sing Psalms or songs, sing praise (to God) in Psalms; praise (sth.) with Psalms; psalmed writes, writings composed as Psalms, the Psalter. …

(a) Bruising, crushing; a bruise; (b) ?rejection, disqualification; ?suspension, dismissal. …

Fire-breathing monsters. …

(a) A kind of saltwater fish, esp. a fish of the family Sparidae; (b) the fresh-water ruff Acerina cernua. …

Reddish. …

(a) An esteemed variety of woolen cloth, perh. rather heavy; ?also, a small piece of such cloth [quot.: ?c1475]; double sai, such cloth in two layers; worsted sai, a piece of worsted; (b) a curtain……

(a) The scar of a wound or sore, cicatrix; (b) the scab produced by cautery; (c) a remnant of a morbid tumor or glandular condition, anything morbid that remains when such a condition has been……

The disease sciatica. …

(a) Arranged in sequence, continuous; (b) serious, earnest, resolute; also, as noun: seriousness, gravity. …

A shoot, sprout. …

A kind of battle-ax. …

(a) A pond, pool; a reservoir; a lake; also in fig. context [quot.: c1400]; stank hed, a dam or similar structure for controlling the water in a pond; stank medwe, a meadow in which there is a pond……

Med. (a) A medicine or medicinal ingredient which contracts bodily tissue, inhibits bleeding, etc.; (b) astringency, stypticity. …

= subcarnacioun n. …

To absorb (sth.). …