Middle English Dictionary Entry
lupīne n.
Entry Info
| Forms | lupīne n. Also lupin, lippine & (?error) lupner. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The European white lupine (Lupinus albus); (b) the bitter seed of this plant; sour ~, the seed not sweetened by soaking; (c) in phrases flour (mele, farine) of lupines, mele of ~, etc., flour from the seed of the white lupine.
Associated quotations
a
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)40b : Lvpyne ys like to þe v levys, but for the more prety þere be vi levis and a white floure and white brode sede, and hit were pese in coddys.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.237 : Lupyne [L Lupinus] and ficchis slayn and on their roote Vpdried are, as dongyng, londis boote.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)4.623 : A braunche of rue also Vp hongeth he..he seith a sithe Maad for lupyne is [vp] to honge asswithe.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)6.69 : The feeld..ther as me sowe shulde Lupyn for dongyng lond, to plowe hit nede is.
- ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh 10.90)170/10 : Lippinis is an herbe þat men clepe lyppynys; it haȝt lewys lyk to fyue lef and it haȝt..vj lewys and it haȝt a quyt flour and quyt seed sumdel brod, and it beryȝt coddys lyk to bene coddys.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)233a/b : Codware is dyuers in quantite..and sauour, for among suche codware lupines and benes beþ grettest and..tylles & fechches beþ smallest..some beþ bitter of hemsilf as lupines and beþ ymade swete and sauory with good waterynge.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)88/20 : Þese medicyns ben sumwhat more driere: yrios..wiilde tare, lupines.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)41b/a : Dert of swalwez, of doggez & of wolfez & of childre þat bene noreshed with lupynez [*Ch.(2): benes of Egipt; L lupinis].
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)196a/b : Lupinus: lupyne, a bene of fraunce h. d. in 3 gre.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)187b/a : Lupynes is a fruyte hote in þe firste degree and drye in þe secounde with clensynge.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)5/29 : To make hare lyk golde. Take & wasche þe heuede ofte in water þat luppines hase bene sothen in.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.598 : Another maladie Wol rise of sour lupine [L amarum lupinum] yf they hit ete, As cornis that wol vnder growe her eye.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)73/8 : Take myrre and..frank-encens..and lupynes and qwenchyd lyþin [read: lyym].
- c1475 *Mondeville (Wel 564)170b/b : Þe rote of yrios, farina, orobi, & of lupines & oþere siche.
c
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)338/10 : Loke þat it ne boile not..& make it þicke wiþ sutil mele of lupinis & of fenigrec.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)43b/b : Be it mundified with farine of lentez & lupinez [*Ch.(2): mele of lupynes; L farina..lupinorum] confecte with hony.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)121a/b : Anoþer mundificatiue of sinewes..is made of floure of lupines & melle rosate & terbentine.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)56/4 : Tak oyle of olyue & bare gres &..stafizagre and þe flour of lupners & grynd all to-gedir with vynagre & anoynte þam þer-with.
- ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh 10.90)170/15 : Ȝef a man hawe wyrmus..tak þe mele of þis lyppyne..and þou schalt ben hol.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)103b/b : Make a pultes and inspisse it vp wiþ flour of lupinis and þanne sprede it on a clooþ and leye it to þe wounde.
- a1500 Platearius CInstans (Cmb Ee.1.13)5/26 : Take þe flour of bitter lupyns [L: farina lupinorum amarorum] and seth hit in strong vineger til hit be þik.