Middle English Dictionary Entry
mecche n.
Entry Info
| Forms | mecche n. Also meche & macche, mache, machche, matche. |
| Etymology | OF meche, ult. Gr. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
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Associated quotations
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- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)249b/b : And þer of been y-made bondes..and maches for candeles.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)318a/b : Þe machche is made of hempene þreed..and þe wexe byclippeþ þe macche and..norissheþ þe fire.
- a1400 Alphita (SeldArch B.35)99 : Licinum..an. mecche uel wyk.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)17.213 : Ȝet brenneth the weyke, With-oute leye or liȝte that the macche brenneth.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)31/1 : A candell made of a matche þat is wette in þat lycour.
- a1500(1413) *Pilgr.Soul (Eg 615)2.23.45b : Þu wost þat of wex and of macche þat closed is therin, al be it hempe or cotom [read: coton], ther comith neuer stynk þerof but it first be enflawmed with fier.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)237/12 : The mecche of a candill whych is y-lightid Is y-nurshit by the oile Wych is about hit.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)237/18 : Yf the mecche be ouer depe y-sette in the oyle, hit shall anoone be y-queynte.
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)754/20 : Hic lichinus: meche.
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- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)4b/b : Of makyng tentez & lichynes, i. machis.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)24b/a : Helpes to mundifien bene lichinia, i. machez [Ch.(2): flex], & gode stupates.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)55b/a : Of maner and qualite of tentez & lichiniez or matchez.