Middle English Dictionary Entry
papīrus n.
Entry Info
| Forms | papīrus n. |
| Etymology | L papȳrus, from Gr. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
The papyrus plant.
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)241b/b : Papirus is a maner Russhe þat is druyed to tende fuyre.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Is.18.2 : Wo to the lond..that sendith messangeris..in vessels of papirus [Gloss.: papirus is a kynde of spier, so greet that botis mowen be maad therof, as summen seye; WB(1): resshi vesseles] on watris.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)47b/a : Papirus: a risshe.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)626/31 : Papirus [Sln marg.: Bulrish], a resshe, is knowen hote and drye and restreynynge.