Middle English Dictionary Entry
heuen v.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | heuen v.(2) Also (early) hiwæn, hiwiæn. Forms: p. heowede, hīwed & hew; ppl. i)heued, iheowed, iheouwed, iheowet, hwed, hūet, hūwet, hūde, ihūwed, (error) iheoweð & heue(n. |
| Etymology | From heu n. & (esp. early examples) OE hīwian, hīowian. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To color (sth.); ppl. heued, colored, dyed; (b) to stain (sth. with shame); -- p.ppl. only; (c) to ornament (sth.), ?inlay; -- p.ppl. only; gold heuen, q.v.
Associated quotations
a
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)25 : He..bið al swa is an eppel iheoweð he bið wið-uten feire and frakel wið-innen.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)103/8 : Hu se eauer hire curtel beo ischapet oðer iheowet [Cleo: iheowed] heo is þe liunes make.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)200/22 : I scheld beoð þreo þinges..þe litunge of þe reade blod þet heowede [Recl.: hiwed] hire se feire.
- ?c1335 Elde makiþ me (Hrl 913)p.171 : Mine hed is hore and al forfare, Ihewid as a grei mare.
- (1346) in Beltz Garter384 : Somer voc' Morel Huwet.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.NP.(Manly-Rickert)B.4059 : This gentil cok hadde..Seuene hennes..Of whiche the faireste hewed [vrr. hwed, hewe] on hire throte Was cleped faire damoysele Pertelote.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Fkl.(Manly-Rickert)F.1245 : Phebus wax old and hewed lyk latoun.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)158b/a : Þe reede see..is nouȝt suche of kynde, but he is but yhewede and ydeyede.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)28013 : Yee..studis hu your hare to heu.
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)1045 : As orenge and oþer fryt..Also red and so ripe and rychely hwed As any dom myȝt device of dayntyez oute.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)5.147 : For vnder colour he can curen al, Pretende fair, liche a peinted wal, Diuers hewed.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)3014 : Whanne I so nygh me myghte fel Of the botoun the swete odour, And so lusty hewed of colour.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)3252 : A duches dereworthily dyghte in dyaperde wedis In a surcott of sylke full selkouthely hewede.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)3021 : The here of hir hede, huyt as the gold, Bost out vppon brede.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)3899 : Parys was..a pert knighte, Here huet on his hede as haspis of silke.
- c1450(?a1400) Parl.3 Ages (Add 31042)157 : His berde and browes were blanchede full whitte, And the hare one his hede hewede of the same.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)4986 : All hire hames be-hind was hewid as a purpure.
- c1450(?c1408) Lydg.RS (Frf 16)115 : Hys mantel ys so lusty hewed, Wyth sondry fluores al renewed.
- a1500(a1450) Gener.(2) (Trin-C O.5.2)1560 : They founde it with hundes alto rent, Some rede, some blak, and some of dyuerse hude [rime: multitude].
- a1500 Tundale (Adv 19.3.1)1542 : A feld was ther of feyr flowrys, And hewyd after all kyn colowrys.
b
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)182/7 : Pine & sorhe & sar schulden wið scheome beon iheowet [Nero: iheouwed; Cai: iheowed].
c
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)211 : Þe hede of an elnȝerde þe large lenkþe hade, Þe grayn al of grene stele & of golde hewen.
- a1400 Siege Jerus.(1) (LdMisc 656)640 : Helmes hewen of [vr. hewyd with] gold, hamberkes manye.
2.
To have (a certain) complexion; -- p.ppl. only.
Associated quotations
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (Hrl 2277)p.113 : He nas of nothe worse heu..Bote cler and ihewed [Corp-C: yhuwed] wel ynouȝ, as he alyve were.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)1.2043 : Two pilegrins of so gret age..weren pale and fade hewed.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)213 : So yvel hewed was hir colour, Hir semed to have lyved in langour.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)1030 : For yong she was and hewed bright.
- c1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson)905 : But thus moche dar I sayn that she Was whit, rody, fressh, and lyvely hewed.
- c1450 My ladyes (Frf 16)161 : O fayr lady, hewyd as ys the gett, How ye al fairen with your lokes glade.
- a1500 Conq.Irel.(Rwl B.490)99/12 : Reymond was a man brode of body..face rody, wel[l] hewid [Dub: I-hewed].
3.
To depict (sth.), paint, ?carve; make (sth.) appear as an illusion; picture (sth.) mentally, imagine.
Associated quotations
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)94/20 : Alle lichamliche heow, heo [the soul] mæȝ on hire sylfæn hiwæn, & swa iheowed on hyre mode healden.
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)102/34 : Ðe deofel mæȝ felæ þingæ dwymorlice hywiæn before monnæ eaȝum.
- a1400 Cursor (Frf 14)6503 : A goldin calf þer-on þai hew.