Middle English Dictionary Entry
lūnār adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | lūnār adj. Pl. lūnārez. |
| Etymology | L lūnāris |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Crescent-shaped, bow-shaped; concavite ~, the hollow formed by the malleoli of the tibia and fibula, into which the astralagus bone fits.
Associated quotations
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)19b/b : It [þe lesse focile] liggeþ nere vnder þe knee on þe vtter partie..And toward þe fote in ioynyng hym with þe more focile, þai boþe make a concauitee lunare, i. like þe mone, in which is resceyued þe firste bone of þe fote.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)49a/b : And þat þe aperacionz, i. opnyng, be made rounde and as war lunarez, i. liche þe mone, þat þe humourez may liȝtly be drawen out & be noȝt aggregate.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)136a/b : And þe kuttyng of it is made after fourme lunare, i. of þe mone [*Ch.(2): after the schappe of a mone; L secundum lunarem formam], in þe rote of þe ere.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)143a/a : To kut aboue & byneþe wiþ a kuttyng lunar [*Ch.(2): rounde; L lunari].