Middle English Dictionary Entry
filtre n.
Entry Info
| Forms | filtre n. |
| Etymology | OF filtre, ML filtrum. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. felt.
1.
(a) Felt; a felt carpet; (b) a piece of felt cloth used to filter liquids.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)121/11 : Þaire housez er made of stikkes..and þe thakk of þam and þe walles er of filtre, and þe dores also.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)125/3 : Þan es he sett apon a blak filtre, with þe whilk þai lift him vppe and settez him in his trone.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)125a/a : Lac virginis..þat is made of litarge & tempred wiþ white acete distilled with a filtre [*Ch.(2): by filtre; L cum filtro].
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)189b/b : In distillynge, take þe water wiþ a þre-cornered pece of a filtre [*Ch.(1): felte] or with a sachel.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1400 Trin-C O.9.39 Recipes (Trin-C O.9.39) 27/30 : Whanne þey bien clene dissolued take and do stille þe water with a clene feltre..and afterwardes take þy perles þat schul be clarifed and put hem in a lytul smale pece of lynnen cloth.
- a1400 Trin-C O.9.39 Recipes (Trin-C O.9.39) 27/34 : Frote wel with þyn hondes þilke pece of lynnen cloth with þy perles þerynne in þat watre þat is so distillyd with a feltre.
- ?a1400 *Albi Reynolds 5081 Recipes (Albi Reynolds 5081)f.23r : For sor eyen ..: still þat water be a filter and put þer of in þyn eyen whan þou gost to bedde.
Note: Additional quotes, sense (b). New spelling.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. filter.