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. …