Middle English Dictionary Entry
mīen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | mīen v. Also mi(e; p.ppl. i)mied. |
| Etymology | Cp. OF esmiier. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To crumble (bread, etc.), grate; ppl. mied, grated, crumbled; (b) of teeth: to grind, gnash; ?crumble, disintegrate.
Associated quotations
a
- 1381 Pegge Cook.Recipes (Dc 257)p.103 : Do bred ymyed therto.
- 1381 Pegge Cook.Recipes (Dc 257)p.118 : Do therein feyr gres or Boter and bred of wastrel ymyid.
- a1400 Recipe MS Hal.in Rel.Ant.1 (Hal 335)51 : Tak the grees of an urcheon..and resynes..and sauge..and virgyn wax; al this mye smal.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)23/15 : Tak white brede & toste it till it be brown. Tak þan & mye it smalle & do it all to-gedir.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)39 : Nym þan Safroun, Gyngere, Canel..old chese myid Brede, & bray it smal.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)130 : Take crownes of whitsour bred, smal myed [vrr. y-crummed; y-grated] on a gratour.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.27 : Take persole, peletre..Take whyte bred myude by kynde.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)31a : To Crume: vbi to my.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)80b : To My [Monson: Mye] brede: Interere, Micare.
b
- a1350 Mon in þe mone (Hrl 2253)39 : Þah me teone wiþ hym þat myn teh [read: teþ] mye, þe cherld nul nout adoun er þe day dawe.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.12 : Take braune of capons or hennes alle…And grynd hit wele as myud brede.
Note: New spelling
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- c1450(1438) GLeg.Nativity (GiL5) (Eg 876) 34/78 : Whanne Zebel myde [L considerans et inquirens] her and founde her virgine sche cried and saied that a virgine hathe borne a childe.
Note: Editor: "myde: tasta et enquist P2, considerans et inquirens LgA; myde appears to be a past form of MED mien, 'crumble (of bread), grate', etc., perhaps with extended sense 'touch' or 'probe'."
Note: Glo 12 has 'neyȝid' for 'myde'.
Note: ?New sense.