Middle English Dictionary Entry

eirond adj.
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Entry Info

Forms eirond adj.
Etymology Ultimately from L haurient- drinking, swallowing (OD haurient); probably from an AF *heiraunt, a secondary variant of *hoiraunt.

Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)

1.
Her. Of a fish: Upright (in pale) with the head at the top (in chief), as if rising to the surface for air; hauriant.
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