Middle English Dictionary Entry
dragaunt n.
Entry Info
| Forms | dragaunt n. Also dragagant, dragantum, dragagantum. |
| Etymology | OF & ML; CL tragacanthum, from Gr. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The gum tragacanth; muscilage ~; (b) some kind of vitriol; calcantum ~, vitriol ~.
Associated quotations
a
- a1300 Hrl.978 Vocab.(Hrl 978)559/23 : Bragagantum, i. dragagant.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)223a/a : Dragantum..is a maner gomme of a certein tre..And þerof is treble kynde, for som is white..and som is somdel reed and cytrine.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)49/16 : Take..mastik, mirre, dragagantum, gumme arabik.
- ?a1400 Adv.18.5.16 Gloss.(Adv 18.5.16)161 : Dragagantum: dragant.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)64/6 : Recipe..muscilage dragaunte & gumme arabic.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)41a/b : Take of..gumme arabyk, of dragagant.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)187b/a : Gumme of Araby & dragantum [*Ch.(1): dragagantum] is colde wiþ a manere of fastenynge to gidre.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)206/10 : Put there-to powdere of dragaga[n]t or off lyquory[s].
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)43/16 : Take dragantum and gumme [of] arabyk.
b
- [ c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)579/24 : Draganti: vytryole, or coporose. ]
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)83b/a : After þat beþ..calcantum dragantum [*Ch.(2): vitriole dragantum; L colcotar dragagantum].
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)79/3 : [O]f atramentez i. of vitriolez bene many kyndez; And þat is better þat is more grene and þat is founden in þe yle of Crete, and it is called comonly dragante, bot noȝt dragagante, ffor dragagant is a white gumme.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?a1525 Dc.54 Artist.Recipes (Dc 54) 262/20,22 : [T]ake markecesythe of sylueyr, and take gom draganton, and of Rebcke, and ley them yn watyr and stepe, and let ther be twys as mekyll of gome Rabeke as ther ys of gom dragant, and than take they lycour and gom of dragant þerwith, and grynd them with marketsyse of syluer apon a ston.
- a1500 Sln.122 Artist.Recipes (Sln 122) 86/12 : Take gumme of Arabic and gumme dragagannt, and put hem in a schell, and put gleyer or water þerto, than late hem stand.
Note: Additional quotes, sense (a).
Note: New spellings (draganton, dragagannt).