Middle English Dictionary Entry
horning(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | horning(e ger. Also (in place names) hornin-, horninck-. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The tipping of bows with horn; the covering of books with sheets of translucent horn; (b) surg. the bleeding of a part of the body with a cupping horn; (c) in place names: ?a bend or curve, ?a curved road or piece of land [see Smith PNElem. 1.262].
Associated quotations
a
- (1419-20) Mem.Bk.York in Sur.Soc.120199 : Pro hornyng unius centene [arcuum].
- (1421) Fabric R.Yk.Min.in Sur.Soc.3546 : Thomæ Hornar de Petergate pro hornyng et naillyng superscriptorum librorum.
- (1465-6) Acc.Howard in RC 57332 : My mastyr bout..xviij bowes redy to the hornynge and polyshynge.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)87a/b : The firste cure of þis euel is lettinge of blode vndir þe tonge & garsinge & coppinge or horninge in þe necke & in þe schuldres.
c
- (1106-23) in Ekwall Dict.EPN239 : Horninuald.
- (1163) in Ekwall Dict.EPN239 : Horningewald.
- (1190) in Ekwall Dict.EPN240 : Hornington.
- (1203) in Ekwall Dict.EPN239 : Horningetoft.
- (1242) in Ekwall Dict.EPN239 : Horningesham.
- (c1250) EPNSoc.19 (Cmb.)32 : Horningestrate..Horinckestrate [read: Horninckestrate].
- (1277) EPNSoc.19 (Cmb.)32 : Horninggate.
- (1327) in Ekwall Dict.EPN239 : Horninglowe.
- (1383) EPNSoc.12 (Ess.)112 : Hornyngecherche.
- (1387) EPNSoc.19 (Cmb.)32 : Hornyngstrete.