Middle English Dictionary Entry
hipe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | hipe n. Also hip(pe, hup(e, hepe. |
| Etymology | OE hype |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) One of the two hips of a person or a quadruped (including the buttock and upper thigh); pl. hips, haunches, loins; (b) a human leg; (c) breiden (cacchen) upon ~, to get (sb.) on (the, one's) hip; fig. take (sb.) at a disadvantage; on hippes, ?at a disadvantage.
Associated quotations
a
- c1225(OE) Wor.Aelfric Gloss.(Wor F.174)537/1 : Clunis: hupe.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)6580 : It watte is brech al aboute, & euere vpward it stey, So þat is hupes [vr. hepes] smorte.
- c1330 Why werre (Auch)134 : But there come another and bringe a litel lettre In a box upon his hepe, he shal spede the betre.
- (c1375) Chaucer CT.Mk.(Manly-Rickert)B.3904 : His mantel ouer his hipes [vrr. hepes, hippes] caste he For no man sholde seen his pryuetee.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Num.5.21 : Make he þi hupe [vr. hippe] to stynke.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Deut.28.57 : Þe fulþe of þe lytul fellys þat goon out fro þe myddul of þe hupys of here [WB(2): of hir scharis; L feminum ejus].
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Judg.3.21 : He took þe swerd from his riȝt hupe [vr. hipe; L femore].
- c1390 11 Pains(3) (Vrn)253/89 : Þer sauh þe goode mon..Summe to þe kne and summe to þe hipes, Summe to þe nauel, summe to þe lippes.
- a1400(?a1325) Bonav.Medit.(1) (Hrl 1701)624 : She ran þan þurgh hem..And with here kercheues hys hepys she wryde.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)15a/b : Clunis: an hip.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)35a/b : Nacta is also a grete fleischy growynge oute, as it were flesche of þe lendes or of þe hepes [*Ch.(1): of þe buttokez or of þe haunches; L natium seu ancharum].
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)241 : Hype [Win: Hyype] of þe legge: Femur.
- c1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson)957 : And of good brede Hyr hippes were.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)219/26 : Take lether..þat wolle strache fro þe medyll down be-nethe þe kne on þe vttyr syde of þe hepe.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)220/6 : Take oyle of Exiter and anoynt þe hupe a-yenste a good fyre.
- ?c1450 *Horse(1) (Dc 291)136a : The hors of gode entaile schall have..the hyppys wele trussyd with large brawne.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)82 : A child was born..that fro the nowil upward had too bodies and too hedis..be the nethir part he had but to hepis and to leggis.
- c1475(c1399) Mum & S.(1) (Cmb Ll.4.14)3.147 : Þilke lewde ladde ouȝte euyll to þryue, Þat hongith on his hippis more þan he wynneth.
- a1500 GLitany (Dc 42)131 : By alle the doloure that thou sufferd in thy rybbys, heepys, and shulders crucifyed, haue mercy on vs.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)677/20 : Hic lumbus: a hype.
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)750/8-9 : Hic lumbus: a hepe, Hoc femur, idem est.
- c1600(c1350) Alex.Maced.(Grv 60)190 : Hupes had hue faire and hih was hue þan, Hur þies all þorououte þristliche ischape.
b
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))John 19.31 : The Jewis preieden Pilat that the hupis [WB(2): hipis; L crura] of hem schulden be brokun.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Lev.11.21 : What euer thing goith on foure feet, but hath lengere hipis [WB(1): theis; L crura] bihynde, bi whiche it skippith on the erthe, ȝe schulen ete.
c
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)144/9 : Ure lauerd..seh hu feole þe grimme wreastlere of helle breid up on his hupe & weorp wið þe hanche turn in to galnesse, þe rixleð i þe lenden.
- c1460(?c1400) Beryn (Nthld 55)1781 : Beryn he had I-cauȝte Somwhat oppon the hipp, þat Beryn had þe wers.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)108/253 : I shrew you so smart, And me on my hyppys, bot if I gart Abate.
2.
In cpds. & combs.: (a) ~ bon; hipbone, ilium; pl. ~ bone(s, bones forming the hip, the region of the hips, the haunches; ~ halt, lame in the hips, limping; ~ heighte, the height of (one's) hip; (b) ~ tile, a kind of roofing tile, apparently used along the ridges of roofs.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B:Berberich)113.89/3 : Wið hipes-banes ece, nim þeos wyrt.
- c1150 Wenne Wenne (Roy 4.A.14)12 : Swa litel þu gewurþe..alswa anes handwurmes hupeban.
- c1330 Otuel (Auch)553 : Þe hauberk he to-rente, Fram þe hepe bon an heiȝ, Þat alle þe pece out fleiȝ.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.957 : But Vulcanus, of whom I spak, He hadde a courbe upon the bak, And therto he was hepehalt.
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.32 : The Loyne of the Pork, is fro the hippe boon to the hede.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)23/3 : Þat þe roundnes of þe boon myȝte entre into þe holownes of þat oþer boon..as þe schuldre boones & þe hipe boones [vr. hepe bonys; L ossa ancharum].
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)319/2 : I wole telle þee in what maner þou schalt knowe a brekyng..if a mannes..hipe-boon ben broken.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Deut.28.57 : Skynnes, wherynne the child is wlappid in the wombe, that gon out of the myddis of hir scharis, ethir hipe bonys [L feminum].
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)6b/a : The 7 chapitre is of apostemes of þe hepebone [*Ch.(1): haunches; L ancharum] & of his parties, þat is to say, of hernia, [etc.].
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)7a/a : The 7 chapitre is of woundes of the hepe bones [*Ch.(1): hanchez] & of his partyes.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)104a/b : The hepe bone [L os anche] is selden when broken but it is some tyme kutte þat þe extremytees may be made lesse.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)2613 : I was so hawtayne of herte..I helde nane my hippe heghte vndire heuene ryche.
- a1475(a1450) Tourn.Tott.(Hrl 5396)218 : Some come hyp-halt, and sum tryppand on þe stonys; Sum a staf in hys hand, and sum two at onys.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)13a/a : And also þat þe roundnes of oon boon myȝte entre in to þe holownesse of þat oþir and neþeles he schulde not lacke his meuynge as þe schuldre bonys & þe hipe bonys.
- a1500 MS Cmb.Ff.2.38 in Halliwell D.445 : Brokyn was hys hepe-boon.
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)750/10 : Hic vel hec clunis: a hepebone.
b
- (1363) in Salzman Building in Engl.231 : Crestes voc' hypetyl.
- (1365) in Salzman Building in Engl.231 : Crestes and hupetill'.
- (1399) Acc.R.Lane in Archaeol.58351 : [250] hepetiel..gotertiell..[and] ryggetiell.
- (1404-5) in NQ ser.11.8426 : In C huptylez et ix Rooftyle.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)220/1 : Ley it [linen cloth] vpon þe sore huppe and þe legge and make a bote of blak lam from be-nethe þe kne vp-ward.
Note: New spelling
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)134/558 : iijus pastor: In good tyme to hys hyppys and in cele, Bot who was his gossyppys so sone rede?
Note: ?1.(b)--per REL
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (1362) in Page Vic.Hist.Herts.4 ()265 : [In 1362, 1,150] riggetill and hepetill [cost 5s. the hundred].
Note: Additional quote(s), sense 2.(b). Hip tiles, for use on the 'ridge' of a roof's 'hip.' Hip tiles and ridge tiles are often (not always) the same tiles, applied slightly differently. The existence of the compound presupposes that the modern sense of 'hip' as a part of a roof (i.e. an inclined or sloping edge, OED hip n., sense 2.(a)) existed already.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. hip.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense 2.(a)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. hip bone.