Middle English Dictionary Entry
poisen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | poisen v. |
| Etymology | OF poiser, var. of peser. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. peisen v.
1.
(a) To have a (specified) weight, weigh (a certain amount); (b) to measure the weight of (sth.).
Associated quotations
a
- 1389 Nrf.Gild Ret.18 : He shal haue two candels poysand vj pounde of wax.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)5.217 : Þe pounde þat she payed by poised [vrr.peised, weyed] a quarteroun more Than myne owne auncere.
b
- (1458) GRed Bk.Bristolpt.2.p.58 : Al maner Wollen cloth and other Merchaundises to be mesured, Weied, or Poysed with in the saide Towne shall be mesured, Weied, and Poysed be twene the biar and seller thereof.
- (1458) Let.Bk.Lond.K (Gldh LetBk K)394 : [Proclamation forbidding merchant strangers to buy or sell] any maner avoir de pois that oweth to be poised.