Middle English Dictionary Entry
pipin n.
Entry Info
| Forms | pipin n. Also pepin, popin; pl. pepins, pepince, pepin(es, pipiounis. |
| Etymology | OF pepin |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The seed of certain fruits, esp. the grape or the apple; a pip; also fig.; (b) a grape; a kind of apple; (c) the pith of a pea; the inedible core of a fruit; (d) a small pellet of some substance; ~ of encens; (e) ?a small pot or container; (f) in surname and place name.
Associated quotations
a
- (1348-9) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100549 : In duabus libr. de Resyns sanz pepyn empt. apud Ebor., 2 s. 3 d.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Num.6.4 : What þyng may be of vyne of graap dried vnto þe pepyn [vr. popyn; WB(2): draf; Gloss.: In Ebreu it is, fro the rynde til to the litil greynes that ben in the myddis of the grape; L acinum] þei sholyn not etyn.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)255a/b : Vua passa..tempereþ yuel humours and abateþ fretynge and gnawynge..whanne þey ben fatte..wiþ fewe pypyns [L ossa] and greynes.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)257a/b : The pepyns of grapes hatte acini.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)1417 : Adam..Doluen..was..In þe dale þat hat ebron; Þe pipins [Göt: pepinis; Frf: cornys; Trin-C: curnels] war don vnder his tung.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)8504 : Þat tre..com vte o þat pepin [Trin-C: pepyne] Þat þat wreche adam fell fra And broght him-self in mikel waa.
- a1425 NPass.(Cmb Gg.5.31)142/32* : Here I sall delyuer to þe Thre pepyns of þat same tre Whare of þi fadir þe appyl ete.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)401 : Pypyne [Win: Pypyn] of vyne, or grape: Acinus, vel acinum.
- c1450(?a1422) Lydg.LOL (Dur-U Cosin V.2.16)3.747 : The frute..is of suche pleasaunce, The garnet apull, of colour golden hewed..And dothe his pypens in the skalis blynde [read: bynde].
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)131.188 (v.2:p.345) : The spirit answerd thus: '..whyl he drank, I entryd in hym in the lyknesse of a popyn, and .. he drwe me in with the wyn.'
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)100a/a : Þe fecis of white wiyn..whete mele..and flouris of Camomille..medle alle þese togideris ouer þe fier, but first drawe þe fecis þoruȝ a clooþ þat þer leue no pipynes þerinne.
- c1484(a1475) Caritate SSecr.(Tak 38)163/10 : Þe most preysable..wyne is þat qwyche comyth of grapys..qwyche..be of perfyte rypenes..þat is pressyd..þat skynnys, þe pypiounys, and þe tendrauntys fully be avoydyd of her moystour.
- a1500(1413) *Pilgr.Soul (Eg 615)4.2.56b : What tyme þat Adam had ete of the appill to gret harme of him selffe and of alle his issue aftir him, the pepynes of þat appill he plaunted in his owne herte; wherefor, his treis or braunches spryngyng of the pepynes wer be come al wilde and vnfrutefull.
- a1550 *Ripley CAlch.(BodeMus 63)62a : In thy glasse it will growe lyke a tree..of whiche one pepin A thowsand will multiplye.
b
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ecclus.33.16 : I to þe laste wakede & as þat gedereþ pepynes [vr. clustris; WB(2): draf; L acinos] after þe grape kutteris in þe blessing of god.
- ?1435(1432) Lydg.Hen.VI Entry (Jul B.2)354 : Ther were eke treen..ffulle off ffruytes lade..Orenges, almondis..Lymons, dates..Pypyns, quynces, blaunderell to disport.
- (1439-41) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)259 : Item, for j potacion in June whan newe maistrez shulde have be chosin in bred, Ale, wyne, spicez, Pipins, and blaundrellez.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)714 : Afftur þis, delicatis mo: Blaunderelle, or pepyns, with carawey in confite, Waffurs to ete, ypocras to drynk with delite.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)94a : A pepyn or A grapp: acinus, acinum.
- a1525(?1457) Cov.Leet Bk.300 : Came the quene from Kelyngworth to Coventre..At which tyme the Meyre and his brethern send vnto her a present..a grete panyer full of Pescodes and another panyer full of pipyns and Orynges and ij Cofyns of Counfetys and a pot of grene Gynger.
c
- (?a1390) Daniel *Herbal (Add 27329)f.178va : [Citrolus] is of 3 manere kynde: þe parure is hot & dry; and þe mete cold & dry; þe core, þe pipyn, cold & moist.
- c1400 Daniel *Herbal (Arun 42)f.70v : Pomum citrinum, pom citrin, is of 3 manere kynde. The rynde, þe skyn of hym, i. þe parure, is hot & drye; pulpa, þe mete þat is called his flessh, is cold & drye; & þe myd þerof, i. þe core & þe pypyn, þe greyne, þe kernel, is cold & moyst... The sedys of hym, as some seyn, arn hot & drye.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)32 : Take a seve..& ley þin pesyn þer-on..& waysshe hem clene a-way þe holys, þen putte hem in a potte, & þey wyl alle to-falle with a lytil boylynge, to pereye, saue þe whyte Pepyn is þer-in, & þat is a gode syȝth; þen Salt hem & serue hem forth.
d
- a1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.PP (GoughETop 4)128/3 : Fyue pepynce of encens ben steked in þe paschall lyke to þe crosse.
e
- c1350 Of alle þe witti (Add 45896)72 : I mot haue muche more wat þen a dishe, a pypin and a posnet, A panne wit a stele.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)39 : Then put in som of the whit braun..and colour it with saffron, and put it in pepyns as gret as an egge and fill them up.
f
- (1297) Sub.R.Yks.in YASRS 16126 : Steph. Pypin.
- (1449) Deed Rufford in Chs.Sheaf (1879)193 : The tenur' of ye whiche Seidell and meres is in the fowrme þat fowles, that is to saye, be gynnyng at the Mer' broke on the northe..& fro thens leynially to the monkes lach & so to the pepynstrynde & so leynially to the foote of Dogulles.