Middle English Dictionary Entry
crai(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | crai(e n. |
| Etymology | AF; cp. CF croie. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Chalk; ?~ lond, chalklike earth, ?chalk; (b) a digestive disease of hawks.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400 Recipe MS Hal.in Rel.Ant.1 (Hal 335)52 : Tak the rotes of rede nettilles..and do tharto cray that thir parchemeners wirkes withall.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)223 : Ad os fractum. Take creylande & brenne hyt wel, & grynde hyt to pouder.
b
- c1450 Treat.Fish.(Yale 171)3 : With mysfedyng þen schall sche [the hawk] haue the frounce, þe Rey, þe Cray, and mony oþer seknes.
- a1475 *Hrl.Bk.Hawking (Hrl 2340)4a : And if it [the hawk's casting] be glemous & roping she gendrith an yuell y-callyd ðe cray. Ðat is when an hauke may not mute.
- a1475 *Hrl.Diseases Hawk A (Hrl 2340)32a : A medycyn for þe drye craye. take & lat holde a fat hele..& euery day of v days lat hyr hete halfe a gorge.
- a1475 *Hrl.Diseases Hawk A (Hrl 2340)32b : A medycyn for þe wete cray. ffor þe wete craye þi hawke wyll euer be mutesyng.