Middle English Dictionary Entry
alōe(s n.
Entry Info
Forms | alōe(s n. Also alloye, alow & alewen, aloyn(e, aloen. |
Etymology | ML aloē, pl. -ēs (from Gr.), whence also OE alewe, pl. -an, which is reflected in ME variants with n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Aloe: (a) the tree; (b) the juice or resin of the tree, aloes; (c) med. the drug aloes; ~ caballinum (cicotrine, epatik).
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)213b/a : Aloes [L aloa] is a tree wiþ a good smelle and bredeþ in ynde..it is..yfounde in the grete Ryuer of babilon þat renneþ into a riuer of paradys. Þerfore many men troweþ þat þe forseide tree growiþ among þe trees of paradys..þere is þre manere kynde.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)213b/b : Aloe [L aloe] is fruyt of a certein herbe þat hatte aloe..Þe Iuys þerof is ywronge and ysode on þe fuyre and afterward ydryed in þe sonne.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)4869 : Blossoms so swete, Þat bawme ne braunche o aloes bettir was neuire.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)77/7 : Zugere roset and chewe of þe tree of Aloes, or som oþer perfyt aromatyke.
b
- ?a1200(?OE) PDidax.(Hrl 6258b)45/8 : Nim alewen [L aloen] and myrra.
- c1230(?a1200) *Ancr.(Corp-C 402)100b : Nichodemus brohte to smirien ure lauerd..of mirre & of aloes.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Prov.7.17 : I ha sprengd my ligging place with myrre and aloes and canell.
- c1390 Mirror St.Edm.(2) (Vrn)979 : Wiþ Mirre and Aloyne..He Baumede him.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.53 : Of somme sche [Fortune] þe botel filleth With bitter galle, myrre, and aloes.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)4572 : Of the gommes in the flaumbe spent..As fraunc encence, Mirre and Aloes.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)108/10 : They brouȝt forþ as offrynge myrre and aloen and anoyntid hym.
c
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)214a/a : Of aloe is þre kynde: Citrinum, epaticum, and Caballinum..Caballinum is good, epaticum is bettre, and Citrinum is best.
- c1400 Daniel *Herbal (Arun 42)f.35v : Summe puttyn þerto comyn & aloyn þat it flo noȝt.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)95a/a : Be þai [emoroidez] froted..wiþ aloen cicotrine.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)128a/b : Water of rose with white wyne in which be a litel of aloe epatic.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)186a/a : Aloes is þe Iuse of an herbe þat is made þicke.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)11/31 : Ypocras sayse þat their thynges will gare a man see þe sternes abowte myddaye, þat is, þe galle of a hare..aloe cicotrine.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)73/32 : An vnce of aloen epatik pouderd.
- a1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking (Hrl 2340:Halliwell)303 : Take alow and saxifrage.
- a1500 Travel Instruc.(CotApp 8)281 : Alloye is good medicyne and laxatife withoute-warde.
- a1550 *Norton OAlch.(BodeMus 63)2006 : Odour mislikinge, as alloes and sulphure.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1475 *Hrl.Bk.Hawking (Hrl 2340)34a : For A hawke þat may not caste, gyfe hyr halowynsicatre þe quantite of A praty castyng.
- a1475 *Hrl.Bk.Hawking (Hrl 2340)34a : For bolnyng of þe gutt of sornes in þe fote of an hawke, Take halowynsicatre & þe whyte of A negge.
Note: New comb. for (c)