Middle English Dictionary Entry
offe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | offe n. Pl. offes & office. |
| Etymology | L offa |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A morsel, small piece.
Associated quotations
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.691 : With whete a strike or other half a stryke Of barly mele, enoyled, offed lyte, In dayes thries x let make hem slyke..so that theyr appetite Be seruyd wel and that non office [read: offis; vr. offes; L offulae] white Englame vppon the rootes of theyr tonge.