Middle English Dictionary Entry

bagge n.(1)
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Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)

1.
(a) A bag or sack, with or without its contents; traveling bag, wallet, satchel, pouch; ~ portatif; undo the ~; (b) a bag as a unit of measure.
2.
A money bag or purse, with or without its contents; also, a bagful of money.
3.
(a) A bag or case for carrying or protecting documents or books; (b) a bag for a poultice; (c) a bag for cooking or straining; (d) a bag or pouch used in falconry; game bag; (e) a baggy sleeve.
4.
A sack-like or pouch-shaped part of a person's or animal's body, such as the dewlap, secundine, etc.; also, a morbid sac-like growth, such as a cyst or abscess.
5.
Combs.: bag beli, a bulging bag; ~ ende, the bottom of a bag; ~ hors, packhorse; ~ maker; ~ man, q.v.; ~ pipe, q.v.; ~ sadel, packsaddle.

Supplemental Materials (draft)

  • ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)119b/a : Þer is euermore a follikel oþer a bagge in eiþer of hem where þis carnosite is holden in.
  • Note: Additional quote(s) ?for sense 4.
  • ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)95b/b : 3a is þat som stiptic þingez be applied outward, viz in somer be þer made a bagge [L sacculus] of 3 parties of Roses & j of mirtilles. And boile hem in water…And be þar applied In wynter…fresh salge shal be brissed & froted with mych oile rosate. And be it put in a bagge [in sacculo ponatur] And be it applied Or be it sitten above boþe.
  • c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)325/17 : In sommer make a bagge with the þre partyes of roses and one of myrtilles and boyle with one boyllinge in water…and laye ham to. In wynter…fresshe sawge schal be bresede and frote it with mykel oyle of rose and put it in a bagge and lay it þerto.
  • Note: Additional quote(s) for sense 3.(b) per REL

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  • a1400 Trin-C O.9.39 Recipes (Trin-C O.9.39) 67/3 : Take þe grene walissche notes..and seþe hem..in fayre bagge wyne by þe space of an hour.
  • Note: ?New comb.: ~ wine. Clarke: "bagge wyne. A type of wine (cf. an inventory in a writ, Westminster, 1373, that includes a pipe of wine called baggewyne; London, The National Archives C 131/192/12). Just possibly understand 'Burgundy'."

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  • ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.79rb (2.13) : Be it on þe bagge of þe lyuer or be it bitwene þe lappatz of þe lyuer, alwaie he feleþ huge peyne & greuance in þe riȝt side.
  • ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.80vb (2.13) : If it so be þat þo ilk wiked humores þat falle don fro þe hede..holde hem at þe mydrede and þer gader into a gobat, a bage, it gendreþ into aposteme.
Note: Additional quots., sense 4. Editor's gloss: 'lump, swelling, bulge'. Example of listed, unattested spelling: bage.

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Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. bag.