Middle English Dictionary Entry
pain n.
Entry Info
| Forms | pain n. Also paine, pein. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Bread; (b) cook. in the names of a number of dishes containing bread, or of a breadlike consistency; ~ fondew (parde, ragoun, reguson); ~ puf, a kind of pie with a soft crust; (c) in surnames.
Associated quotations
a
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)7.121 : Þe prophete his payn ete in penaunce and in sorwe.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)9.80 : Shulde no crystene creature..faille payn ne potage and prelates did as þei shulden.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)13.243 : I fynde payne for þe pope and prouendre for his palfrey.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)13.260 : May no blyssyng done vs bote..Tyl pruyde be purelich fordo, and þat þourgh payn defaute.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)14.313 : Pacyence is payn for pouerte hymselue, And sobrete swete drynke.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)339 : Take youre loof of light payne..and with the egge of þe knyfe nyghe your hand ye kett.
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)54/14 : Take 2 pound of rosyn an[d] stampe and put þer-to a quartron or more of payn and an vnce of turmentyne, [etc.].
b
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.33 : Payn Fondew. Take brede and frye it in grece..and lay it in rede wyne, grynde it with raisons, take hony..and cast þerinne gleyres of ayren, [etc.].
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.37 : Payn Ragoun. Take hony suger and clarifie it..and boile it..and take it fro the fyre and do þerto the thriddendele and powdour gyngener and stere it togyder, [etc.].
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.89 : Payn puff. Eodem modo fait payn puff, but make it more tendre þe past.
- ?c1425 Arun.Cook.Recipes (Arun 334)450 : A soteltee, a castel that the Kyng and the Qwhene comen in for to see how Seint Jorge slogh, and payn puffe and petypettys.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)42 : Payn pur-dew. Take fayre ȝolkys of Eyroun..þan take fayre brede, [etc.].
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)61 : Le iij cours..Payn Puffe.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)497 : Payne puff, pare þe botom nyȝe þe stuff, take hede, Kut of þe toppe of a payne puff.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)46 : To mak payn pardieu, tak paynmayne..and paire away the cruste, cutt them in schyues and fry them alitill in clarified butter; then tak yolks of eggs, [etc.].
- a1500 Ld.Cook.Recipes (LdMisc 553)112 : Peynreguson. Nym resons..and bray it in a morter with..wastel bred; tempre hit with wyn, boille hit, dresse hit forth.
c
- (1246) Nickname in LuSE 55184 : Joh. Wastepayn.
- (1276) Nickname in LuSE 55185 : Joh. Waynpayn.
- (1332) Nickname in LuSE 55140 : Rad. Paynblaunk.
- (1376) Nickname in LuSE 55185 : Rog. Waynepayne.