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

(a) A two-edged stiletto or dagger; (b) a spike [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……

A book containing a collection of antiphones [cp. anteme] and, it seems, also other sacred songs; antiphoner noted, an antiphoner with musical notation. …

A pope elected in opposition to one regarded as canonically chosen. …

One who makes announcements or carries messages and performs other services on the authority of a lord, court, guild, etc.; herald, town crier, summoner; bidel hod, a beadle's hood; bidel land (a……

(a) An ornate covered bowl for mixing wine; (b) a drinking vessel; goblet, beaker; biker cuppe; biker maker. …

The island on which England, Cornwall, Wales, and Scotland are (or were) situated, or those parts of the island held by Celts after the Anglo-Saxon conquest; also, specif., Wales, Cornwall; Britaine……

(a) A child, a brat; -- used contempt.; Belial brolles, sons of Belial; (b) a wretch, a worthless person. …

(a) A woods, grove; thicket, underbrush; bank and bush, hill and (wooded) dale; under the bush, in (the shelter of) the woods; (b) rank growth. …

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

?A member of a bishop's court [cp. assessour n.] …

Eccl. (a) The last of the seven daily services or 'hours' (following even-song vespers) observed by monastics and priests of the Roman Church; complin; houre of complin; don complin, saien complin,……

An expert in computing the calendar; computer (of the calendar). …

Refuge. …

(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) Of man and animals: female; a female; (b) femel complexioun, the physiological 'constitution' of a female (in accordance with the 'humor' theory). …

(a) Fennel Foeniculum vulgare; rot (more) of fenel, etc.; red (rouge, brown) fenel, a variety of fennel with brown seeds, ?German or Saxon fennel; (b) when qualified, denoting other plants: hound……

A fixed rent or tax. …

(a) A coat of mail; also, plate armor or a coat of mail reinforced with plates; -- sometimes used interchangeably with habergeoun; (b) chain mail worn over a hair shirt as a form of penance; (c) fig.……

(a) Law A legal claim or right; also fig.; haven interesse in (of), to have a claim upon (sth.), have rights in (sth.); (b) the right to claim compensation for damage; ?also, damage, injury; (c) the……

(a) Lammas, Aug. 1; the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula; also, one of the quarter days [cp. lammasse dai]; ?also, the time of year about Lammas; to the lammasse, at Lammas; (b) in surnames. …

(a) One of the four humors, black bile; a bodily fluid which helps to form and nourish the body; -- not pathological unless present in excessive amounts; also, an altered form of black bile [see (b)]……

(a) Spot, mark; blemish; (b) pl. the strands or cords of a net; also, the openings between the strands or cords of a net; (c) gise of maskel, ?lozenge shaped. …

(a) Dust, ashes, dirt, trash; (b) fig. earthly goods or happiness; mortal flesh; (c) mol rein, a light rain, drizzle. …

An infection of the nose and throat. …

Mu, the twelfth letter of the Greek alphabet. …

The failure of a clergyman to reside in the locality of his benefice. …

A precious stone of various colors, often variegated; ?jasper, ?serpentine. …

(a) One who makes or sells parchment; (b) as surname. …

Phoenicians. …

(a) A pickax, a tool used for breaking up and digging up ground, breaking up walls, quarrying, etc. (often identified with other tools, such as a mattock, spade, hoe, etc.); also fig.; ?also, a tool……

A paragraph mark; a paragraph; also, an asterisk. …

A person claiming divine authority for false or heretical pronouncements; a false teacher, a hypocrite; -- also coll.; also, as name. …

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

Five years of masses to be said after a person's death, quinquennial mass; a written agreement for the saying of quinquennial mass. …

Law A relinquishing to another of a legal right or interest in its entirety. …

A sum or an amount of money received by a person, guild, church, etc.; an income; -- also pl.; forein receit [see also forein adj. 5.(b)]. …

?An account book for the parish or the residence of the parish priest. …

Surg. A softening medicine. …

Fire-breathing monsters. …

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

(a) A scroll; a scroll with its contained text; a roll of prayers [quot.: 1454]; (b) a roll used in the game of rage-man [see rage-man n.3.(b)]; rage-man rolle; (c) rolle of wacche, a scroll on which……

(a) A kind of slipper or shoe; (b) arm. a piece of protective armor for the upper side of the foot, held in place by laces or straps. …

Silk; sai worm, the silkworm (Bombyx mori). …

(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 red juice or resin of the dragon tree (Dracaena draco); (b) cook. a sweetened pottage named for the color produced by adding this red juice. …

A female saint. …

A stone of magical properties that falls from the sky in thunderstorms. …

(a) Any of various skin diseases characterized by itching, pustules, ulceration, etc.; also, the pustule characteristic of such diseases [quot.: a1398, 1st]; also, scabby or scaly condition of the……

(a) A scale of a fish, serpent, fabulous creature, etc.; also fig.; pl. used as pun on the name of Thomas de Scales, killed in 1460 [quot.: c1460]; (b) pl. the elytra of an insect; (c) ?the hide or……

(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 schism in a church. …

(a) Payment for provision of food or drink at a social gathering, at a tavern, or to one's host or benefactor; one's share of such payment; paien scot; yeven scot, to contribute to a common feast; (b)……

Lawful seizure or confiscation of property. …

Law: (a) Seizin, possession in freehold, freq. indicated or established by actual or physical possession; also, the right to something [quot.: c1436, 2nd]; also, the ceremony at which seizin is……

(a) The county of Zealand in the Netherlands; (b) Seland cloth, a kind of cloth made in Zealand; (c) as title of a herald. …

(a) A vessel for holding liquid; ?a wine vat [last quot.]; (b) a liquid measure. …

A name for the wolf in beast fables. …

(a) A musician, prob. one who plays a musical instrument; ?a singer in a choir; (b) in surnames. …

A form of the figure synecdoche, where the accusative of respect refers to a part of the body standing for the whole. …

A shoot, sprout. …

A severe headache, migraine. …

(a) Sodium carbonate; poudre of sode; sal sode, crystallized sodium carbonate; (b) ?ash; sode of strau (timber, wode). …

= socade n. …

= songewarie n. …

?A plough trace, often of iron. …

Shoemakers or cobblers; -- used in nonsense passage. …

A kind of battle-ax. …

An ornamental shoulder band worn by ecclesiastics on the upper part of the alb, one on each shoulder. …

(a) An aromatic substance; a spice; also fig. [quot. c1400]; coll. spices; also, spice plants; spiceri menginge, blending of aromatic spices; grounden (poudre of) spiceri, ground spices; (b) a spice……

(a) A flag or banner displayed from a pole in battle; also, a pole used to display a military ensign; a figure displayed as a military ensign; standard berere, a standard bearer; standard of treues, a……

(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. …

(a) A jug, often made of leather; also, a measure for liquids, varying from one pint to several gallons; (b) a vessel or container for holy water; holi water stoupe. …

Anat. The carotid arteries, massaging of which was thought to induce sleep. …

= subcarnacioun n. …

(a) Native or natural sulfur, used as a component of medicines and incendiary mixtures; (b) alch. ?sophic sulfur [cp. sulphur n. (c)]. …

= suppuratif n. (a). …

Members of an early Christian sect, the Encratites, said to have been founded by Tatian the Assyrian (c172 A.D.). …

A round loaf of bread. …

(a) The boards used to deck a section, or to cover a structure, on a ship [difficult to distinguish from (b)]; (b) the act of covering a portion of a ship with boards. …

(a) A barrel for liquids or solids, cask, tun; tonnel hop; tonnel tre, ?a barrel stave; (b) a net for catching partridges or other birds; (c) ?a chimney shaft; (d) a strainer or colander. …

(a) An exercise in the medieval martial arts, engaged in by knights, usu. mounted, and used to demonstrate prowess or hone skills; (b) a test or demonstration of physical skill;—used of the Olympic……

(a) A literary work the subject of which is the hero's fall from prosperity into irremediable adversity; also, a sad, solemn, or edifying story; also person. [quot. a1420, 2nd]; (b) a tormented……

The spring sowing or plowing; also, spring-sown grain. …

Surg. The action of boring small holes in the skull. …

A turn, rotation, or revolution about an axis or center; welkenes turn, the turning of the heavens. …

A monetary unit based on the French silver tournois, usu. equivalent to one-fourth of the pound sterling; moneie of turoneis, pounde of turoneis; grot turoneis, a silver coin originally valued at 12……

Virulence, infection; also, purulence, suppuration. …

Theol. A venial sin. …

Pathol. A protrusion or hernia distended by gas. …

One or more kinds of resin or gum, or such held in solution and intended for use as a decorative or protective coating on wood or other material, varnish; ?also, varnish used as a vehicle or mordant……

= vesterer n. …

(a) A wine merchant; a vintner; (b) as surname. …

A kind of bottle or vessel. …

(a) A professional pleader in civil or ecclesiastical courts of law, an advocate; also fig. [last quot.]; one skilled in law, a lawyer; also, a legal representative of the crown (b) one who pleads……

Sensual pleasure, voluptuous enjoyment; indulgence in or devotion to sensual gratification, esp. sexual gratification; also, fig. & in fig. context; also, an occasion or instance of sensual……

The native or common language of a nation, the vernacular. …