Middle English Dictionary Entry
massacumie n.
Entry Info
| Forms | massacumie n. Also -cunie, -cume, -cune. |
| Etymology | ML |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Med. (a) A vitrified glaze, probably containing lead; (b) a medicinal powder containing massacumie and other ingredients, used in the treatment of corneal ulcers.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)112a/b : Take massacune, it is þe vitrinynge þat vessels of erþe þat cummen fro be ȝonde se ben vitrified wiþ, of þe whiche take of þe scrapinge of þe egges of þe vessels; ȝif þu haue not massacune, pomis, borace, rede suger ana, grinde hem alle sotillie & infuse hem in þe water of celidoine.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)131b/b : In confeccioun of massacuma [Ch.(2): cunya; L massacumia]..Þe fourme of which massacumie [Ch.(2): massacunye] after heben mesue, R[ecipe] vitrum male coctum [Ch.(2): glasse þat is euel soden]. In stede of it after Dyne be take þe grene rascature, i. rasyng [Ch.(2): grene cancre], of vesselz biȝonde see, stercorum, lacerte, spume maris, baurac, [etc.].