Middle English Dictionary Entry
raue n.
Entry Info
| Forms | raue n. |
| Etymology | From rau(e adj. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Unripeness; (b) unfulled cloth; (c) med. pl. unnatural humors; also, harsh things, things full of humors.
Associated quotations
a
- a1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)1280 : Fowle & clene bi naturalle lawe Haue grete discorde, & so hath Ripe & rawe.
b
- (1463-4) RParl.5.501b : In case that eny such diversite, or rawe, scawe, kokell, or fagge happen to be in eny part of the seid Clothes or half Clothes, [etc.].
c
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)2b/a : Laxe [Ch.(2): Slakynge þinges] bene gode; crude, i. rawe [Ch.(2): rawe þinges], forsoþ yuel.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)159b/a : Þer oweþ to be purged crude, i. rawe & indigeste [Ch.(2): rawe and vndefied humours].