Middle English Dictionary Entry
hẹ̄pe n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | hẹ̄pe n.(2) Also hep, heppe, hipe, hippe, heope, hoepe, hupe, houpe, (error) hoo-. Pl. hẹ̄pes, etc. & hẹ̄pen. |
| Etymology | OE hēope & hēopa. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The hip of a wild rose; esp., the fruit of the dog rose (Rosa canina) or the sweetbrier rose (R. rubiginosa or eglanteria); (b) ?a seed pod of flax; (c) as a type of something worthless; (d) grene ~, some kind of wild rosebush; (e) ~ tre (brembel, brer, brede), a dog rose tree or bush; ?also, a sweetbrier bush; (f) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.243].
Associated quotations
a
- ?c1125(?OE) Dur-C.Gloss.(Dur-C Hunter 100:Cockayne)300 : Betunus: heope.
- a1300 Hrl.978 Vocab.(Hrl 978)556/7 : Butunus, i. butuns, i. hoepe.
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Cmb Gg.1.1)675 : Perperonges [vr. piperounges; glossed:] hepes [vrr. hepen, howpes, hupe].
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1811 : We schul..gete vs..hawes, hepus, & hakernes..& oþer frut to þe fulle þat in forest growen.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Th.(Manly-Rickert)B.1937 : But he was chaast and no lechour And swete as is the brambel flour That bereth the rede hepe [vrr. heppe, hipe; rime: slepe].
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.44 : Take heppes and make hem clene; take Almandes blanched; frye hem in oile and bray hem in a morter with heppes.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)4974 : Ac oþer mete þai ne habben Bot hawen, hepen, slon, and crabben.
- c1400 Femina (Trin-C B.14.40)52 : Et glentre porte lez piperongez..And bremyl þat beruþ þe hepe.
- 1483 Cath.Angl.(Monson 168)183 : An Heppe: cornum.
b
- a1425 Gloss.Bibbesw.(AS 182)413 : Hep of flax.
c
- c1330 7 Sages(1) (Auch)116/2398 : For hem ischal me ful wel kepe; Of hem ne ȝiue i nowt an hepe.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)292/389 : His hyppys then bakys no symnell ffor hote.
d
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)218 : Tak..þe croppe of þe Rede bremble & þe croppe of þe grene hepe.
e
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Trin-C O.2.21)675 : Hepe tre [vrr. hupe tre, brimbel, brere; glossing AF (Cmb) Engleter, (Arun) Eglenter].
- c1350 Cmb.Ee.4.20.Nominale (Cmb Ee.4.20)661 : Aube-espyne et eglenter; Hawethorne, hepetre.
- a1400 Alphita (SeldArch B.35)22 : Bedegar est quedam tubrositas crescens iuxta radicem ueperis qui uocatur eglentier, angl. hepebrede [?read: hepebrere].
- a1400 Alphita (SeldArch B.35)157 : Hepebrembel.
- a1400 Mirfeld Sinonoma (Pmb-O 2)36 : Rosa canina frutex est, an. heppebrer, ad cujus pedem ut dicitur ypoquistidos nascitur.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)93/10 : Take egremoyne..walworte, seruoyle, and þe rote of þe hoo-brymbyll, and þe rote of þe wyldemalwe.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)63a : A hepe tre [Monson: an Heppe tre]: Cornus, Cornum fructus eius.
- a1500 Hrl.1002 Gloss.(Hrl 1002)629 : Cornus: hepetre.