Middle English Dictionary Entry
dropik adj. & n.
Entry Info
| Forms | dropik adj. & n. |
| Etymology | From idropik . |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Suffering from the dropsy; as noun: a person having the dropsy.
Associated quotations
- c1425 Found.St.Barth.29/22 : A Certeyne dropik mane that bare his surname of the happe of this siknes myght nat hyde away his ynwarde greyf.
- ?c1450 Iff a man (Stockh 10.90)305/403,413 : Þe dropyk drynke ix wormys ilke day..Take and fle a molle owte of þe skynne And boyle it þanne in watyr and wyn, And þe dropyk late drynke þe broth fresche.