transferrer (trans ferer)

[ A system of ve els which continues to be the transferrer of nutriment from the places where it is ab sorbed and prepared to the places where it is needed for growth and repair. I noot wher she be womman or godde e; But Venus is it, sothly as I ge e. Venus, if it be thy wil, Yow in this gardyn thus to transfigure. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 247. And Merlyn com to Vlfyn, and transfigured hym to the semblaunce of Iurdan, and than sente hym to the kynge. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 76. Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, and was transfigured before them; and his face did shine as the sun; and his raiment was white as the light. Mat. xvii. 2. transform