Middle English Dictionary Entry
baliste n.
Entry Info
| Forms | baliste n. |
| Etymology | OF & ML |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) An arbalest or a ballista; (b) a surgical instrument for extracting foreign bodies from wounds.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))1 Mac.6.20 : Thei maden balistis [WB.(2): arblastis], an instrument for to cast shaftis and stoonys, and engynes.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)1193 : Tech hem..The dart, baliste, and bowe, and cast of stoon.
b
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)57a/b : Of the witte of drawynge out of arwes & of oþer þinges smyten yn..The eyȝte instrument is baliste i. arweblaste [*Ch.(1): a balista i. awblast].
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)57b/a : Bynde þe balyste with pynsownes.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. ballist.