Armpit. …

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

A mineral reputed to be unquenchable when set on fire; ?the fiber asbestos as used for the wick of an ever-burning lamp; prob. confused with alabaster in quot. c1450. …

The flaring sides or 'wings' (of the nostrils). …

A place for storing or safekeeping: (a) a pantry or butlery; a safe for food; also said of the stomach [quot. a1398]; (b) a closet or wardrobe; (c) a cabinet, chest, or strongbox, as for valuables……

A Eucharistic vestment: amice [a linen scarf worn over the head and the shoulders]. …

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……

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

One who professes the liberal arts. …

A silly fellow, an upstart. …

(a) An ecclesiastical vestment (usually of white linen) reaching to the ankles, an alb; also, the Greek poderis, the Hebrew ephod; (b) aube girdel, girdle used to gather the alb at the waist. …

Asarabacca (Asarum Europaeum). …

An herb; the garden beet. …

A kind of frog. …

(a) A chameleon; (b) a giraffe. …

A harbor. …

Naut. A device for hauling up the anchor, etc.; capstan bar, capstan spoke, a capstan bar. …

(a) Cabbage, kale, colwort, rape, mustard, or some other plant of the genus Brassica; also, any cultivated leafy vegetable, garden greens, pot-herbs; (b) wilde caul, wild mustard, charlock. …

(a) A piece of paper or parchment containing writing; a written document, letter, etc.; (b) a brief document attached to a roll or enclosed in a letter, and usually containing a list of names or bill……

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

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

Navelwort (Cotyledon umbilicus). …

(a) Any substance, such as mortar, cement, plaster, etc. for binding stones, surfacing walls, etc., which hardens after it has been applied. …

(a) ?Citron; (b) ?the African citrus tree; ?celandine; citrine collirium, citrine ointment, citrine poudre. …

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 milldam; a floodgate or sluice; milne clouse. …

A woman who harangues the people. …

An attendant to the royal bedchamber. …

(a) bi no conspeccion, in no respect; (b) in conspeccion of, in view of. …

(a) Liable for the payment of tribute, a levy, an assessment, etc.; under legal obligation to make such contributions; also, making such payments; contributorie to paien; contributorie to taxes……

A precious circlet for the head; a coronal or coronet. …

(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……

(a) A cross for crucifixion, a gibbet; (b) the cross of Christ; holi cros; Exaltacioun of the cros, a feast, Sept. 14; feste of the holi cros, feast of the Invention of the Cross, May 3; (c) winnen……

A written statement that one owes a certain sum to a person named; esp., an acknowledgment of debt issued in the king's name. …

(a) A reading desk or a lectern; also, a study desk; standing deske, ?a fixed, immovable lectern; (b) deske cloth, an ornamental cloth for a lectern. …

A collection of laws; esp., the compilation of Roman laws made by order of the Emperor Justinian. …

Dysentery; flux dissenterie. …

A dromedary; also, a camel of any kind. …

(a) Ebony wood; (b) the ebony tree. …

A flowing out, an out-pouring. …

Any of various plants which respond to the movement of the sun. [See Osiris 3.22-46.] …

Med. A syringe or douche for introducing curative fumes or liquids. …

Hemorrhoids, esp. the bleeding kind; def emoroid, hemorrhoids that do not bleed; also, the presence of hemorrhoids as constituting a morbid condition. [Cp. figes, piles.] …

The external application of a medicinal preparation in the manner of a wet compress, fomentation. …

A medicinal liquid applied locally, frequently by means of a wet pack or compress. …

Either of the two periods, one in March, the other in September, when the days and nights are of equal length; the equinox. …

A prayer. …

(a) The face of man in its general physical aspects; (b) the face of an animal; (c) the face (of Fortune); the (double) face (of Janus, Law). …

A kind of ringworm. …

A garment for the legs. …

A place where official documents and letters are kept, a file. …

(a) A small glass or metal bowl or cup for liquids, incense, etc.; (b) a flask; (c) fig. …

Surg. A lancet used for letting blood. …

A black gem with magical powers. …

A type of hinge shaped like a horizontal T; double garnet, ?a garnet hinge somehow doubled in form. [See also almerie garnet, out garnet, and peue garnet (s.v. peue n.(1)).] …

(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……

'Discharge of inflammatory secretion (thought to be male or female sperm) from urethra or vagina' [Norri]. …

'Discharge of inflammatory secretion (thought to be male or female sperm) from urethra or vagina' [Norri]. …

'Discharge of inflammatory secretion (thought to be male or female sperm) from urethra or vagina' [Norri]. …

(a) One of three mythical females, with snakes for hair, whose look turned the beholder into stone; a Gorgon; (b) ?a representation or a statue of a Gorgon; (c) a rain spout, gargoyle. …

Officials in charge of the finances of a church. …

Offense, violation of right, scandal. …

Med. & surg. (a) Of medicines: having the property of dispersing, diluting, or dissolving viscous, thick, or heavy humor; (b) as noun: a medicine having such a property; (c) slashing, cutting. …

Surg. An instrument shaped somewhat like shears for cutting off flesh in wounds or for cutting bones. …

(a) A detailed list of goods and chattels, of books, etc.; an inventory; (b) inventari of cirurgie, Guy de Chauliac's treatise on surgery. …

A nun charged with the duty of reading aloud. …

(a) The leopard (Felis pardus); (b) one who is like a leopard in cunning and cleverness; (c) leopard man, the keeper of leopards in a noble household. …

(a) The dried root of the plant Glycyrrhiza glabra, used in medicine and cooking; licorice; (b) the plant itself; (c) licoris of inde, indes licoris, ?the root of Indian licorice (Abrus precatorius). …

(a) Capable of being melted or liquefied; (b) as noun: a liquefiable substance. …

The rectum. …

Either of two Old World mandrakes (Mandragora vernalis or M. officinarum); also, a part of these plants used in medicine; mandrag lef. …

(a) A periodical public assembly for buying or selling; also, an occasion of such a gathering; beten market, to linger or hang about at a market; crien a market, announce the holding of a market……

A small insect bred in must, a mite. …

(a) A mule; (b) barain (hep) of mules, a herd or group of mules; mul of spaine, one of the best mules, a Spanish mule; mul flesh, mule meat; mul grom (herde, man, ward), a mulekeeper, servant who……

(a) The horizon; the horizon of a particular location; est orisont, the eastern portion of the horizon; (b) embelif orisont, the oblique horizon, horizon of any point between the equator and the poles……

Good Friday. …

A small panther or leopard. …

Analogy, similarity. …

A penalty or fine. …

(a) An instrument used to grind materials in a mortar, a pestle; pestel of iren, a pestle made of iron; also fig.; (b) a threshing sled [see Singer & Holmyard Hist.Tech. 106]. …

Phoenicians. …

A measure of wine, pitcher. …

?The black hore-hound Ballota nigra. …

(a) The head or deputy head of a monastery or a house of mendicants, a prior; also, the head of a house of canons; (b) abbotes and (or) prioures; prioures chapele (cloistre); priour and brether,……

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

(a) Eccl. The fifteenth day (i.e., two full weeks) after a major liturgical feast, quindene; quindecim of seint jon baptist, September 12; quindecim of seint mighel, October 13; (b) a tax or duty of a……

An Arabian horse. …

Pathol. Fissures or inflammations in a bodily part. …

The buckthorn (genus Rhamnus, probably Rhamnus cathartica) or a kind of bramble (probably Rubus fruticosus, the blackberry). …

As pl.: (a) persons bound by vow to a religious order, as distinguished from the secular clergy; monks, nuns, friars, etc.; (b) churchmen and churchwomen generally, nonlaymen, ecclesiastics; (c) reule……

One of the veins of the foot thought to be useful in letting blood from the kidneys. …

Surg. A minute fissure in the brain. …

(a) The river Rhine; also, the Rhineland; win of (the) Rine, Rhine wine; (b) Rhine wine. …

Fire-breathing monsters. …

A horned beast, sometimes regarded as a species of unicorn; a rhinoceros. …

A confection made of honey and rose water or other liquid tinctured with rose. …

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

(a) A distillate of turpentine, rosin; also, resin; (b) rosin clene (coiled, pured), god (clene) rosin, high-grade rosin or resin; red rosin, whit (drie) rosin. …