Middle English Dictionary Entry
nī̆tre n.
Entry Info
| Forms | nī̆tre n. Also niter. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Native sodium carbonate, natron; (b) med. natron used in medicaments; whit ~.
Associated quotations
a
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)44a/b : Nitrum: glas & sugre & generis terre anglice: nytre.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)196b/b : Nitrum: Nitre is a veyne of erþe, h.d. in 2 gre.
b
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)60/11 : Leie aboue þe wounde actractiuis..Summe..ben symple, & summe compound..Þese medicyns ben compound: vreyne of a ȝong man wiþ nitre [L nitro].
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)174a/b : Take white niter brent, sulfur viue, verdegrece, [etc.].
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)185a/b : Take niter, cardamomij..raisinges..seþe hem in þe iuse of rewe & coile it and distille o droppe in þe Ere.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)80/13 : Tak arnament, pepir, & nitere..& mak poudir þer-of.