Middle English Dictionary Entry
gul-sought n.
Entry Info
Forms | gul-sought n. Also -sogth, -south, -sort & gouil-sought. |
Etymology | ON; cp. OI gulu-sótt. Also cp. ME gul adj. & sought sickness. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Jaundice.
Associated quotations
- ?c1450 Iff a man (Add 17866)192 : Celydoyne..is gode to drynke..For gulsought and the Jaundise.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)58b : Gulsoght: Auruga, Ictericia, Icteris, hictericus, Mutacio coloris.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)709 : Hec glaucoma..the gowyl sowght. Hec ictaricia, the jandis.
- a1500 Med.Bk.(2) (Sln 3153)80 fn. : For þe gulsouth.
- a1500 Med.Bk.(2) (Sln 3153)134 fn. : For þe ȝelwenes þat is cald þe gulesogth.
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)43/4 : Hit schal destriȝe alle maner poison and venym and droposy and þe gussort [?altered to: gulsort].
- ?a1500 MS Bowes in Halliwell D.409 : Envus man may lyknyd be To the golsoght [Mannyng HS 3975: þe Iawnes], that es a payne; Mene may se it in mans eene.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. gulesought.