Middle English Dictionary Entry
lūna n.
Entry Info
| Forms | lūna n. Also lune. |
| Etymology | L & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The moon; (b) alch. silver.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)108b/b : Þe norþerne triplicite haþ venus, luna, & mars.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)115a/a : The mone is Iclepid luna.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)47b/b : Þer beþ also vij daies whiche þat takiþ her propre names of þe vij planetis, þat is to seye, in latyn Sol, luna, Mars, Mercurius, Jubiter, Venus, Saturnus.
- a1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)5854 : If þe mone vnder a lyne falle, Lune of þe clips þat we calle.
b
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.CY.(Manly-Rickert)G.826 : Sol gold is, and Luna siluer we threpe.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.CY.(Manly-Rickert)G.1440 : By the dragon Mercurie..He vnderstood, and brymstoon by his brother, That out of Sol and Luna were ydrawe.
- a1550 *Norton OAlch.(BodeMus 63)1109 : Good maister..teach me trully whether the matters be sol and mercurie, Or whether of sol and lune yt may be.
- a1550 *Ripley CAlch.(BodeMus 63)63b : Those oiles well..conuerte bodies all Into perfit sol & lune.
- a1550 *Ripley CAlch.(BodeMus 63)64b : Oille of Lune and water with labor great I made, it callc[i]ning with salt preparate.