Middle English Dictionary Entry
moisting(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | moisting(e ger. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The act of moistening, wetting; watering (of land); also, a place of moistening; (b) phys. & med. the production or imparting of the quality of moistness.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)124b/b : He [May] haþ þat name madius, of madefaccoune, wetinge & moistinge of rayne.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)154b/a : Aftir þe moystynge of þe londe, the hepes of grauel to shedeþ & to falleþ.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)28b/a : Fluor: rennynge or moystynge.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)48b/b : Fro þe bone þat is cleped laudiformi..þer ben two orifice þurȝ þe whiche þe spatel passeþ, and it is as it were a matras and a moistinge to þe tunge.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)240/6 : Remove þe heres and schaue the heed in moystinge it wiþ water and wiþ oyle.
- a1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)10570 : In þe erthe may no þing spring But of watir it haue moisting.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)223a/a : Dragantum..is a maner gomme of a certein tre..and haþ vertu of kelynge, of moystynge, and of clensynge.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)114a/b : Vse he moistyng of þe body with even humidite, with bath & oþer þinges.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)582/28 : Þe causes of soche þinges [embrocations] ben lyȝtlynesse of hetynge and of colynge and of moystinge.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Prov.3.8 : For whi helthe schal be in thi nawle and moisting of thi boonys.
Note: New sense
- c1500(1446) Morstede Surgery (Hrl 1736)111 : Next after the skyne folowes fatnes, and yt ys as oyle warmynge & may stynge the membrys.
Note: New spelling (error)