Incitement to evil; urging. …

Surg. (a) The act or process of cleansing a wound or sore, the removal of pus or other impurities by means of cleansing medicines; (b) a detergent or cleansing property. …

Withdrawal from worldly affairs and interests, asceticism. …

Med. A gum made from the juice of green plums or sloes (used as an astringent, a restringent, or a repercussive). …

(a) An accessory to a crime; (b) that which is subordinate to something else. …

(a) The deadly sin of Sloth, a disinclination to do anything good; (b) a spell of lethargy or apathy. …

Armpit. …

A cleric who has taken the highest of the four minor orders, an acolyte; also, the order itself. …

Medicines for sharpening or improving (the hearing). …

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

(a) Supplementary; (b) a supplement. …

(a) The Advent season, usually extending through the four Sundays immediately preceding Christmas; (b) advent Sondai, the first Sunday of Advent. …

(a) Theol. Power to intercede, intercession; (b) law a charge or accusation. …

The patronage of a church, including the duty of protecting the church and the privilege of presenting nominees to the benefice, advowson; right of advocacion. …

Divination by air, aeromancy. …

(a) Nimbleness of body, swiftness; (b) one of the four gifts or dowries of Christ's body and of the resurrected body of man: the ability to travel to any place without delay and without the need of a……

A reddish or violet precious stone, prob. some variety of garnet. …

A gourd-shaped vessel for making distillates, the so-called 'waters', a still. …

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. …

(a) A corridor or hallway; a covered walk; (b) an aisle (of a temple or church); (c) a balustrade. …

(a) Alexanders, horse parsley (Smyrnium olusatrum); (b) alisandre more, alisandre rot; alisandre sed. …

The medieval science of alchemy. [The transmutation of base metals into silver and gold & the search for the 'elixir' and the 'quintessence' were its chief aims; the principles of 'natural' and……

An alchemist. …

(a) Law A formal declaration or deposition; (b) the citing of authorities (esp. the Scriptures) in support of a doctrine or opinion; (c) the expression of an opinion or objection; assertion……

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) 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……

(a) A covered passageway or walk, as on the rampart or along the parapet of a castle; an arcade, aisle, or promenade; a gallery or balcony; (b) the barrier or railing (of a balcony). …

Phil., physiol., med., alch.: (a) Change, transformation, transmutation; (b) change for the worse, deterioration; evel alteracioun; ill effect or result; (c) change for the better, amelioration……

A blend of mercury with another metal, amalgam. …

Amethyst; amatist colour, amatist ston. …

The office or function of an ambassador, diplomatic service or activity; ambassadorial privilege or authority; in (on, of) ambassade, as diplomatic representative or envoy. …

(a) The function or business of a (diplomatic) emissary; in, on ambassadrie, as an emissary or negotiator; (b) a mission, negotiation; (c) emissary, or a group of emissaries. …

(a) A diplomatic emissary of a ruler; an envoy; also, a messenger; (b) fig. messenger. …

Crushed hulled wheat; grits, starch. …

(a) Almonds; nutes amigdales; (b) tonsils. …

A prince or emir under the Sultan; any Saracen lord or chieftain; also, any heathen ruler or commander. …

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

Analogy; correspondence, proportion. …

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. …

(a) A two-edged stiletto or dagger; (b) a spike [see quot.]. …

Logic & ethics A prior assumption or principle, a premise; antecedent trouth; antecedent ded, a preceding act as causing a later act. …

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……

Med. & alch. Antimony. …

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

One who abandons or renounces an established religion or an article of faith; an apostate; tyrant apostata. …

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

A pharmacist or druggist who stores, compounds, and sells medicaments of all sorts [cp. spicere]. …

A decoction. …

Trappings; gear. …

(a) An offering or contribution; esp., an (annual) contribution made by a daughter religious house to the mother house; (b) a present, a gift. …

Payment, compensation; something offered in payment or by way of compensation; also fig. [quot.RRose]. …

Physiol. (a) The 'quality' of being inherently 'moist'; (b) the liquid constituent of the body, or overabundance of it; also, serous fluid. …

(a) The chief flamen or priest (of the Britons, of the Mohammedans); (b) his province or jurisdiction. …

Chief priest, dean. …

A superintendent. …

One who professes the liberal arts. …

Some kind of stone with medicinal properties. …

(a) The uptilted front or back of a saddle, saddlebow; for arsoun, former arsoun, forþer arsoun, pommel; hinder arsoun, cantle; (b) a saddle provided with pommel and cantle. …

(a) Implements of war, arms; office of artelrie, the office of armorer; (b) specif., ballistic engines; (c) a workshop for making implements of war. …

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

(a) One who practices a craft or trade; craftsman, tradesman, workman; (b) (literary) artist; (c) a crafty person. …

(a) belonging to the celestial north; pol artik, the north pole of the heavens; specif., the North Star as marking its position; under the pol artik, under the North Star, in the North; of artik, of……

(a) Rising;upward slope; (b) ascension (of Christ); (c) rise in fortune. …

Asparagus. …

The official determination of an assessment. …

(a) An order, request, directive, or stipulation; also, a commandment; at assignement, at (someone's) request or call; bi, of assignement, on (someone's) orders or instructions, at (God's)……

(a) A session of a court charged with the deliberation and disposition of civil actions (esp. actions concerning land tenure and imprisonment); the deliberations of such a court (the gathering of……

Help, aid, support. …

(a) The reception (of the Virgin into Heaven), the Assumption; (b) the assumpcioun, the church festival (August 15) commemorating this event [one of 5 festivals referred to as oure ladi dai]; the……

(a) A billet or shingle; astel shid; (b) firewood; (c) surg. a splint. …

(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……

The blue stone lapis lazuli; enamel made of powdered lapis lazuli. …

Planetary influence, or a planet as exerting influence. …

A violation or infringement. …

Violator, offender. …

(a) The act of paying attention, concentrating, or devoting oneself; maken, taken, yeven attendance; (b) haven attendance, look out for, expect (a change). …

Med. (a) The action or property of drawing (diseased matter) to the surface; (b) contraction, extraction. …

(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. …

(a) Chess Elephant (the piece now called bishop); (b) used contemptuously of a person; (c) ?rubbish. …

(a) The practice of numbering or computing with Arabic numerals; [littera de] augrim, an Arabic numeral; (b) augrimes abece, algorism's ABC's, the Arabic numerals; augrim stone, a stone or counter……

Ambergris, or a perfume made of it; grei aumbre, aumbre oriental. …

(a) Fate, fortune, chance; one's lot or destiny; in plur.: one's fortunes, one's circumstances; the outcome of something; dame aventure, Dame Fortune, the goddess Fortuna; god (ivel) aventure, good……

Sight, view; inspection, scrutiny. …

(a) One of twenty-four arcs extending from the zenith to the horizon and meeting the horizon at right angles; the part of an astrolabe representing such an arc; (b) a section of the horizon between……

(a) The wall surrounding a castle or fortified city; (b) a court within such a wall, or between several such walls surrounding a castle. …

(a) A pair of balanced scale pans for weighing; a set of scales; balaunce maker; tonge of the balaunce, the scales' pointer; also, one of a pair of scale pans; (b) par de(l balaunce(s, paire balaunce……

A plant of the genus Gentiana (prob. either G. lutea or the native British G. amarella); also, its root or leaves used in medicine. …

(a) A package or bale (of merchandise), perh. specif. of a certain weight or size; (b) without of: ii bale(s flax, two bales of flax; etc. …

(a) A whale; (b) the flesh of a whale. …

A rose-red variety of spinel; a balas ruby. …

(a) An arbalest or a ballista; (b) a surgical instrument for extracting foreign bodies from wounds. …

A troop of soldiers under a particular banner. …

The act, ceremony, or sacrament of baptism; the fact of being baptized; also fig.; bapteme water, water of bapteme, water used in baptism; ben hight in bapteme, be given a Christian name; name of……

(a) Foreign, non-Greek; (b) heathen, non-Christian, Saracen; (c) barbar tonge [see quots.]. …

(a) A foreign country; folk of barbarie, a foreign nation; (b) foreign speech. …

(a) A foreigner, barbarian, heathen; a non-Greek, a non-Roman; (b) foreign, non-Greek; also, rugged [quot.Chauliac]. …

Uncivilized or rude nature. …

(a) The body of nobles or retainers (of a ruler), the nobility; the peers (of a realm); (b) the hierarchy (of heaven). …

A woman with a barony in her own right; the wife of a baron. …