Middle English Dictionary Entry
paue n.
Entry Info
| Forms | paue n. Also pauwe & poue; pl. paues, etc. & paune. |
| Etymology | OF poe, poue. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The paw of an animal; (b) the claw or talon of a bird; (c) the forceful or brutal hand of a man or a god.
Associated quotations
a
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)1491 : To dragouns þer layen..Þat on was rede so þe fer..Euerich powe a span long.
- a1425 Arth.& M.(LinI 150)1603 : Þe rede dragoun and þeo white, Harde togedre gon þay smyte Wiþ mouth, powe, and wiþ tayl.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)386 : Pawe of a beest: Palmula, palma.
- c1440(a1350) Isumb.(Thrn)181 : So come a lyonne..And in hir pawes scho hent the childe.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)776 : Thane come of þe Oryente, ewyn hym agaynez, A blake bustous bere..With yche a pawe as a poste, and paumes fulle huge.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)56.473 : With here teeth and with here pawe, Eche lyown hadde Nygh Other I-slawe.
- a1450 Parton.(1) (UC C.188)7117 : A lyon..espied Partonpes palfray..That flesch and skyn of hys hokebone Wyth his pawe dyd arace.
- a1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)1076 : Þe lyoun hem among, His pawes were boþe scharp and long.
- c1450(a1400) Libeaus (Clg A.2)1997 : A warm come out apace Wyth a wommanes face..Her tayl was myche vn-mete, Hyr pawes grymly grete.
- a1500(?a1450) GRom.(Hrl 7333)286 : He sawe þe Ape..sitting in þe top of a tre, and with hire teth and with hire pawis roggyd and Rent a-downe branchis and wode.
- a1500 Arth.& M.(Dc 236)345/1114 : The whyte dragon lay by hym þo, Wiþ longhe powes & scharpe al so.
b
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)1697 : Al watz gray as þe glede, wyth ful grymme clawres Þat were croked and kene as þe kyte paune.
- c1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)541 : This egle..with hys grymme pawes stronge..Me, fleynge, in a swap he hente.
c
- a1450 *St.Marg.(2) (Bod 779)159 : Wit ȝoure charpe naylis here flesch ȝe of drawe, & techeþ here Ihere to mahoundis lawe; & ȝif ȝhe nele Ileue on him, todraueþ here wit ȝoure pawe Here flessche fram here bonis.
- c1450 Capgr.St.Kath.(Arun 396)5.138 : Shewe ȝe som reson openly that we may knawe If þat ȝoure goddis wyth the rough pauwe haue other euydens þan we can proue.