Middle English Dictionary Entry
fimẹ̄ n.
Entry Info
| Forms | fimẹ̄ n. |
| Etymology | Prob. OF fumeé. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. fumes.
1.
(a) Hunt. The excrement of certain game animals, such as the deer; (b) med. excrement, dung; (c) alch. mud or clay (for sealing a retort).
Associated quotations
a
- c1425 Twiti Venery(1) (Vsp B.12)151 : Alle the bestis that beryth suet and fime [OF fumee] ben escorches, and all that bere grece and freyn be arracies, saf the hare.
b
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)66/4 : Fyme of wilde swyne.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)222 : Tak þe fime of a schep..al fresch & frye hyt wyþ schepes talow.
- a1500(?c1440) Lydg.HGS (Lnsd 699)197 : The fyme of Gees & greene Goslyngis..doth gret boote Tasswage the peyn.
c
- a1475 Bk.Quint.(Sln 73)11/23 : Putte it into a uessel of glas clepid amphora, þe which sotely seele..and renewe þe fyme oonys in þe wike.
- a1475 Bk.Quint.(Sln 73)10/35 : It nedit to be putrified in a rotombe and seelid in fyme.