flotise and flotishe - Middle English Compendium

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Language abbreviation key

AF: Anglo-French
AL: Anglo-Latin
MnE: Modern English

Middle English Dictionary Entry

flotīse, -ishe n.

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Entry Info

Forms	flotīse, -ishe n. Also flotes.
Etymology	AF flotison, -eson (whence also MnE flotsam); AL flotiscum.

Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)

1.

(a) Scum or grease floating on a liquid; (b) law the legal right to flotsam.

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a

[ (1390) Leet R.Norwich in Seld.Soc.575 : Ricardus Pattesle assuetus est commiscere flotiscum cum bono cepo in deceptionem populi. ]
(1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)168 : Flotyse or flotyce [vr. fflotys] of a pott or other lyke: Spuma.
c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)227 : Þen seþ hem wel in red eyfel tyl al be comen grene, & sethen do away þe flotes aboue.

b

(1446) Doc.in HMC Rep.7 App.77 : [Letters patent of Henry IV..granting..ample privileges..treasuretrove, deodands, and] lagan et flothysshe [between the ditches called Erledyke and Flayneburghdyke].