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. …

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]. …

One who professes the liberal arts. …

(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) To bubble, foam, effervesce; burblen out, burst out; -- intr. or refl.; (b) to welter or wallow (in blood, water); cp. burlen. …

(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……

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

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

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

To rest satisfied or put up (with one's lot, a particular state of affairs, etc.); ben content with litel; -- (a) refl.; (b) ben content(ed. …

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 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. …

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.] …

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

(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 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) 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) 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. …

Offense, violation of right, scandal. …

(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) 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). …

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) 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) To get or acquire (sth.); inherit (a kingdom); obtain (a parish); come into enjoyment of (one's lands, proprietary rights, etc.); conquer (territory, a realm); (b) to gain (sth. spiritual or……

(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……

Of a county: ruled by a lord who has privileges resembling those of an independent sovereign; counte palatine; also, as surname: of the palace, belonging to the palace. …

(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) To rob, steal; rob (sb.), steal from (sb.); rifle (sb.) [1st quot.], despoil (the dead); (b) to take (sth.) by robbery; (c) to defraud (sb.), cheat. …

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

(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……

To sing Psalms or songs, sing praise (to God) in Psalms; praise (sth.) with Psalms; psalmed writes, writings composed as Psalms, the Psalter. …

(a) To smash (sth.), crush, shatter, break, or bruise; (b) to suppress (sth.), overcome, abate; (c) to nullify (sth.), veto, annul, quash; reject (sb.), disqualify; quashen doun; (d) to tremble……

To make thin; reduce the density of (sth.); soften (flesh, pores). …

(a) To relate events, describe; say (sth.), state, recount; -- sometimes with clause; ppl. recited, mentioned; (b) law to state (sth.) in a legal proceeding; -- sometimes with clause; (c) to offer up……

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……

Surg. Of a medicine: softening. …

(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. …

(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. …

Reddish. …

(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) Compensation, payment, esp. a salary or compensation periodically paid for regular service [sometimes difficult to distinguish from (b)]; also fig.; (b) a payment for a specific service or limited……

(a) The European elder Sambucus nigra; also, ?oil or gum of the elder tree [last quot.]; oile of sambuc; (b) a musical pipe. …

(a) A kind of shoe, consisting of a sole fastened to the foot by thongs, a sandal; (b) a richly made shoe worn by popes and bishops. …

(a) A blood-red color; also, rosy hue [last quot.]; (b) a rich cloth of a blood-red color; also, a piece of such cloth; (c) one of the four humors, blood; also, the complexion, or temperament……

(a) A Turk; also, an Arab; also, a Moslem; -- often with ref. to the Crusades; Sarasin hed, the head of a Saracen; (b) a heathen, pagan; an infidel; (c) as a type of non-Christian; Sarasin or jeu, jeu……

A vine cutting, twig of a tree; -- also coll. …

(a) A name for various types of orchid; also, cuckoopint (Arum maculatum); saturion majour; (b) saturion minor, bluebell, wild hyacinth (Endymion nonscriptus). …

(a) A boat; a small boat, skiff, dinghy; (b) a basket; ?also, a bowl. …

(a) A ladder; (b) fig. of the cross or the Virgin Mary: a means by which man ascends to heaven or eternal life; (c) a scaling ladder used in sieges; (d) one of the rungs of a ladder. …

(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……

(a) A written document; (b) an itemized list attached to a bill. …

(a) The disease sciatica; (b) an attack of the disease. …

(a) What is known, knowledge; information; -- also pl.; ?also, self-knowledge [quot.: a1475]; (b) accurate knowledge, certain knowledge; (c) experiential or empathic knowledge; (d) the knowledge in……

(a) A split in the church producing two or more parties, each rejecting the other's authority, a schism, esp. one resulting from rival claimants to the papacy; also, a split within a religious order……

To filter (a liquid), strain. …

(a) A dam with a water gate or escapement for impounding or controlling the flow of water; also, a water gate; also fig.; (b) ?a stretch of water impounded by a dam or dike; -- used fig.; (c) cook. ?a……

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

(a) To scour, polish; polish or scour (metal, a pot, etc.); furbish (armor); ?also, fig. of a day: be bright and clear [quot.: a1375]; scouren bright (clene, neue), make (sth.) bright (clean, new) by……

The formal enumerating of individual votes in an election to an office. …

A French gold coin, usu. worth half an English noble, or 3 s. 4 d. …

(a) The fetal membranes; the afterbirth; (b) anat. the middle, or vascular, tunic of the eye; secundine tunica, tunica (tunicle) secundine. …

Mus. An interval approximating half a whole tone. …

The waxy membrane at the base of a hawk's upper mandible, cere; also, the bare skin surrounding a hawk's eyes, orbital skin; also, the bare skin on a hawk's legs and feet. …

(a) Clear weather, fair weather; (b) a title given to a king, highness. …

(a) Arranged in sequence, continuous; (b) serious, earnest, resolute; also, as noun: seriousness, gravity. …

(a) A plant, prob. the dragonwort Dracunculus vulgaris; (b) a precious or semiprecious stone, thought to have magical powers; (c) a small cannon; serpentin gonne; (d) a representation or figure of a……

A skin disease, prob. herpes zoster, characterized by eruptions and a tendency to spread in a circle around the waist. …

An eyebrow. …

(a) Loss of consciousness accompanied by weakening of the pulse; (b) contraction of a word by omission of one or more sounds. …

A shoot, sprout. …

The seed of the sesame plant (Sesamum indicum). …

A precious stone, green in color, esp. an emerald; also, emerald; smaragd ston. …

(a) One who practices sodomy, a sodomite; also fig.; bodili (carnal) sodomit; gostli sodomit, one who is spiritually corrupt; (b) sodomy; sinne of sodomit; (c) an inhabitant of Sodom. …

(a) The sole of the human foot; also, the under surface of an animal's hoof; fot sole; (b) a sole of a (the, his) sole, the sole of the fot, the sole of his (thi) fet, the soles of the (his, here)……

(a) To celebrate (a religious festival or day); perform (a religious duty, funeral rites) reverently or with due ceremony; (b) to celebrate (a wedding); perform the ceremony of (marriage); (c) to……

(a) Religious celebration or ceremony, sacredness; dai of solempnite, a festival day; feste of solempnite, a sacred festival; maken solempnite, to celebrate, perform religious celebrations; maken……

(a) An upper chamber or a set of rooms in a dwelling place; also, a loft, garret; heigh soler; soler flor, the floor of an upper apartment or story; (b) an upper chamber in a church or church steeple……

Med. Purulent matter, pus. …

(a) An interval or a span of time elapsing between two specified points, events, etc.; (b) the amount or extent of time comprised by or contained within a specified period; -- often with gen. or of ph……

(a) Funds, money for expenses; a monetary payment or reward [quot. c1384]; spenses of the nedi, money for the poor; greven with spenses, to ask (sb.) for money; (b) a charge borne or incurred, cost……

(a) The cosmos, composed of hollow concentric revolving spheres surrounding the earth; spere of the firmament; (b) the outermost sphere of the cosmos, the primum mobile, regulating the motion of the……

More or less spherical in shape. …

(a) Cloth of some kind, usu. made of wool; also, a piece of this cloth; stamin cloth; (b) an undergarment made of this cloth; -- also coll. [quot.: c1390; quot. may belong to (a)]; (c) ?a border or……

(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……

(a) Harsh to the taste, sharp, sourish; also, used of taste: sapoure stiptik; (b) med. of medicinal ingredients, medicines, etc.: astringent. …