Middle English Dictionary Entry
mūt(e n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | mūt(e n.(1) Also meute, miute & (errors) meet, ywtes. |
| Etymology | AF mut(e, AL mūta & CF muete, meute. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A pack of hunting dogs; ?also, the baying of such a pack.
Associated quotations
- c1350 Cmb.Ee.4.20.Nominale (Cmb Ee.4.20)773 : Vn mute de chiens: A mute of houndes.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2192 : Alle men þat mut herde of þe muri houndes, seweden after ful swiþe to se þat mury chase.
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)1451 : Ful oft he [the boar] bydez þe baye & maymez þe mute inn melle, He hurtez of þe houndez, & þay Ful ȝomerly ȝaule & ȝelle.
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)1720 : Thenne watz hit lif vpon list to lyþen þe houndez, When alle þe mute hade hym met, menged togeder.
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)1915 : Hit watz þe myriest mute þat euer men herde, Þe rich rurd þat þer watz raysed for Renaude saule.
- c1400 Femina (Trin-C B.14.40)3 : Mut dez chiens en venerie Et de corner apres vous die: A mut of houndez in venerie And after to blowe y shal say.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)108 : Alle þe hondes þat longyn to boþ þe mutes, abiding vpon the maister of the game blowyng, þan shuld þe sergeaunt of þe mute of þe hert houndes..make alle hem of the office..hardle her houndes.
- a1450 Parton.(1) (UC C.188)2233 : Mutes [vr. [M]ywtes] of houndes of alle degree Came toward him.
- (1450) Proc.Privy C.6.102 : Will de la Barre..hath payed..for an hors with a sadell and a brydell..and also for a mute of houndes.
- c1450 Terms Assoc.(2) (Cmb Ll.1.18)232 : A mewte, a pakke & a kenell of houndes.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)597/16 : Muta: a meet of hundys.
- a1500 Terms Assoc.(4) (Dgb 196)232 : A mute of hovndes.