Middle English Dictionary Entry
mol adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | mol adj. Also molle, mul. |
| Etymology | L mollis |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Softened, pulverized; of soil: loose, powdery; (b) of weather: mild; (c) as noun: something soft or weak, an effeminate man, the soft part of the head; (d) mus. flat [see be-mol n.].
Associated quotations
a
- c1400 Daniel *Herbal (Arun 42)f.19r : If it [a type of mallow] be set in grounde fat & mul, noþyng of his rote dwelleþ into þe nexte ȝer.
- 1483 Cath.Angl.(Monson 168)242 : To make Molle: puluerizere.
b
- (1386) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.118 : [In] swef [and] mol [times when the] scoue [of smelt and gudgeons drew closer to the land, which it did not do in cold and hard times].
c
- a1425(a1400) Paul.Epist.(Corp-C 32)1 Cor.6.9 : Neyþer fornicatourys nor seruande to ydolis, nor auoutrers, nor molles: molles [L molles] ar seyd þoo þat dyshoneeste þe vygor or þe strengþe of þe kynde of þe body eneruyd.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)38a/b : Wiþ cauteriez punctale vpon þe molle [Ch.(2): molde; L molle] or þe softe of heued.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)141a/a : It is graunted bi Rogerius..þat aboue þe molle of þe heued be put of scarlet in quantite of a peny.