Middle English Dictionary Entry
racin(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | racin(e n. Also rasine, rassin, rason, rasinge. |
| Etymology | OF racine |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A piece of the root of ginger; ~ of gingivere; (b) root; -- used fig.
Associated quotations
a
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)202/22 : Take racyns off gynger, the levys and ryndis off hyllerne with betany and grynd them to-gyddyr.
- c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) (Hrl 4016)88 : Pare clene rasinges of ginger, & temper hem ij of iij daies in wyne, And after, ley hem in clarefied hony..þen take the rasons oute of the hony.
- a1612 *York MGame [OD col.] (Roy 17.A.55)xii.211 : Selyndyne, wt a rasyne of gynger.
b
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)4881 : Of ech synne it is the rote, Unlefull lust..And of all yvell the racyne.
- a1500 Moste glorious lord (Voss Germ.Gall.Q.9)15 : [B]lessyd lorde, be yat Rassyn yat seche a branche dede ber, That delyuerd mankynde from Eternall payne.