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

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

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

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

Divination by air, aeromancy. …

(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……

Amethyst; amatist colour, amatist ston. …

Crushed hulled wheat; grits, starch. …

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. …

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……

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

A decoction. …

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

(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……

(a) Foreign, non-Greek; (b) heathen, non-Christian; -- perh. with implications of inhumanity; (c) barbar tonge [see quots.]. …

(a) The 'books' or writings of the Old and the New Testament, the Bible; half bible, a designation for ?or title of a portion of the Bible, probably the Old Testament; bible man, an interpreter of……

The greater celandine (Chelidonium majus); also, any of its parts used medicinally. …

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

The chicory (Cichorium intybus); also, heliotrope. …

A period of 1000 years, millenium. …

Burial ground, graveyard, cemetery; cimiterie garth. …

A tree, variously identified. …

Chiromancy, palmistry. …

Med. (a) A clyster, enema; any medicinal liquid administered through the rectum; (b) the instrument for injecting such liquids, a sort of syringe. …

The plant colocynth (Citrullus colocynthis) or its fruit or pith. …

A precious stone, any of the gems called chrysolite. …

(a) St. Christopher; Cristofre dai, the festival of this saint, July 25; (b) a small image of St. Christopher; (c) a plant of the genus Lysimachia; Cristofre the male, herbe Cristofre male, ?the……

A severe ache on one side of the head, migraine. …

Med. In names of pharmaceutical preparations, or drugs, usually indicating that the herb or the like which follows is the chief ingredient: (a) dia- bardich, some kind of drug; dia- borago, a drug……

A gem resembling the beryl. …

Transparency. …

Med. A lead plaster containing various plant extracts; 'plaster containing mucilages (in some recipes also juices) extracted from plants, litharge (lead monoxide), and olive oil.' [Norri]; diaquiloun……

Diarrhea. …

Eccl. A bishop's diocese. …

(a) Med. A diseased condition of the body, or its parts, caused by an unfavorable combination of the humors; (b) fig. disharmony, disorder. …

Dysentery; flux dissenterie. …

(a) One of two medicinal plants: dittany of Crete (Origanum dictamnus) and/or white dittany (Dictamnus albus); (b) lesse ditain, costmary (Chrysanthemum balsamita). …

(a) The gum tragacanth; muscilage dragaunt; (b) some kind of vitriol; calcantum dragaunt, vitriol dragaunt. …

(a) A sweet confection, sweetmeat; a sweet sauce or condiment; (b) a sweet medicinal preparation; (c) fig. a reward or bribe; dragge of sin, pleasure of sin, incentive to sin. …

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

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

A severe headache, orig. one affecting one side only. …

Empyrean, empyreal; heven empiri, the highest of the heavenly spheres, which according to the ancients consisted of the element of fire, and became the abode of God and the angels in the Middle Ages. …

The action or practice of calling up or driving out spirits; also, incantation, invocation. …

(a) The Phoenix [see the Barth. quots.]; also a representation of it; (b) said of a woman of unique beauty; applied to the Virgin Mary; (c) said to be the name of a long-lived palm tree. …

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. …

The operation of letting blood by opening a vein, bloodletting; don fleobotomie, to let blood; quantite of fleobotomie, the amount of blood taken from the patient. …

A black gem with magical powers. …

(a) A plant of the genus Teucrium; esp. the wall germander Teucrium chamaedrys; ?also, some plant of the genus Veronica, perhaps Germander speedwell Veronica chamaedrys; often confused with [and some……

(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……

(a) A man who, from religious motives, lives in relative solitude; a male Christian recluse, a hermit; (b) holi heremit, a pious hermit; (c) a false hermit; one who has not renounced human society, or……

The management of economic affairs, housekeeping. …

(a) The worship of man-made statues, paintings, or other objects; idolatry; also, the personification of idolatry; don idolatri, to practice idolatry; (b) an idolatrous religion or cult [sometimes……

A kind of precious stone. …

(a) The hippopotamus; (b) a fabulous beast having features of both the hippopotamus and the hippocentaur. …

(a) A rank or group of ranks in the sacred order; (b) one of the three divisions of the nine orders of angels; jerarchies of heven, hevenli jerarchie(s, the angels; (c) the whole body of angels in……

(a) The Biblical Lazarus; -- also with the as though a common noun; (b) a leper; hous of laser, a house for lepers; (c) a diseased person; (d) as adj.: diseased; (e) laser clothing, the dress of a……

Afflicted with lethargy. …

(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) Consisting of, or mixed with, black bile; of a humor other than melancholy: mixed with black bile or transformed into unnatural melancholy; malencolik humour, humour malencolik, black bile; --……

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

The unicorn; also, the Indian ass. …

An inflammation of the conjunctiva and of the eye; obtalmia capital, chef obtalmia, gretteste obtalmia, more obtalmia, stronge obtalmia, gret obtalmia, lesse obtalmia, light obtalmia, types of……

Eccl. A homily or sermon; esp. a discourse on a scriptural passage; ?also, a story, a relation [quot.: St.Anne]; bok of omelies, a homiliary. …

(a) Optic; sineue optik, nerve optik, optic nerve; (b) erroneously used of the acoustic nerve. …

(a) A clock; esp. one which strikes the hours; (b) fig.; (c) a clock with special parts indicating moon phases, etc.; also, the special parts of such a clock; (d) a sundial; (e) a water clock……

(a) Term of life; (b) termination of life; death; deathday. …

Barley sugar, often used medicinally; a piece or stick of barley sugar. …

(a) The science of judging a person's nature by studying his physical features, esp. those of the face; physiognomy; (b) the human face or its expression. …

(a) The medicinal root, pellitory or pellitory of Spain Anacyclus pyrethrum; also, the herb pellitory of the wall Parietaria officinalis or a similar plant; (b) wild thyme Thymus serpyllum. …

(a) The practical aspect or application of something; practice as opposed to theory; also, knowledge of the practical aspect of something, practical experience; ben of practik, to deal with practical……

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

A rare prefix occurring in a few ME nouns & adjectives: prothogol, prothomartir, prothonotarie; prothopaciens, prothopassive. It was not a living prefix in ME. …

A prologue, prefatory matter. …

(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) The singing of Psalms, psalmody; also, ?a religious gathering at which Psalms are sung [quot.: *Cath.Angl. 100a]; (b) Psalms; (c) the Book of Psalms, Psalter. …

(a) Of the nature of rheum; consisting of rheum; (b) caused by rheum; (c) suffering from a disease caused by rheum; (d) of air: moist, humid. …

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

Dizziness, vertigo; visual symptoms including dimness, 'floaters,' or similar effects. …

(a) The name of the letter Θ in the Greek alphabet, theta; (b) the sign of the cross [based on the L transliteration of the Greek character; cp. tau n.]; (c) math. the arithmetical symbol for zero. …

(a) One of several plants of the genus Euphorbia, spurge; (b) the plant genus Euphorbia. …