Middle English Dictionary Entry
riǧǧe-bōn n.
Entry Info
| Forms | riǧǧe-bōn n. Also riegbon & (late, ?error) ragge-. |
| Etymology | OE hrycg-bān |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: For other forms cp. rigge n. & bon n.(1).
1.
(a) The human spine; (b) the spine of an animal; (c) a vertebra.
Associated quotations
a
- c1330 Degare (Auch)450 : Ech man þat him iustez wiȝ tit Haþ of him a foul despit: Some he brekez þe nekke anon, And of some þe rig-bon.
- a1333 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Add 46919)83 : Rugbon [vrr. rygbane; bac-bon; glossing AF (Cmb): l'escine].
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)247b/b : By likenesse þer of þe rigge bon is y-cleped spina for þe ioyntes of þe bones in þe rigge bon beþ scharpe as thornes.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)161/17 : Þo vij ribbis ben maad fast in þe rigge boon bihynde.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)5.190 : Glotoun..pisside a potel in a paternoster while And bleuȝ þe rounde ryuet at þe riggebones [B: rigge-bon; vrr. riegbones, ruggebones] ende.
- c1410(c1350) Gamelyn (Hrl 7334)537 : A litel aboue þe girdel þe riggebon tobarst.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)34/34 : Oft-tymes suche maner sikenes bene toward þe rigbone of þe bak niȝ þe lure.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)62/8 : Be þer made ventosyng with garsyng atuix þe buttokez at þe rigebone ende.
- c1450(?c1425) St.Mary Oign.(Dc 114)183/44 : She was founden so smalle and lene þurgh infirmite & fastynges, þat þe rigge-bone of hir bak was clungen to hir wombe.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)89/9 : Þis oyle is good..in a playster for þe reggebon.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)43b/a : Ech spondile is holid amydde endelongis þoruȝ whiche holis passiþ þe Nucha from þe brayn, þe which is clepid in þat place Medulla spinalis or þe mary of þe rugge boon.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)43b/a : All þis contynuacioun of spondilis wiþ spondilis is callid þe rug boon, þe which is foundament of al þe forgynge, i. schap, of þe body.
- a1500(?c1400) Song Roland (Lnsd 388)736 : His shulder smot he quyt asundur, rent out the rigbon, it was no wondur.
- a1500(?a1475) Guy(4) (Cmb Ff.2.38)1074 : Gye smote oon of tho Hys rygge bone euyn in twoo.
- a1525 Conq.Irel.(Dub 592)142/15 : My fyngyr ys gretter than was my faders ryggebone.
b
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.383 : Perdix..took a plate of iren and fyled it and made it i-toþed as a rugge boon of a fische, and þanne it was a sawe.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)266b/b : Þe ioyntes of þe rugge boon of þe asse beþ more stronge and strengere y-bounde wiþ senewes byhynde aboute þe reynes þan tofore.
- c1440(a1400) Eglam.(Thrn)497 : Þe knyght agayne to þe bare es gane, And cleued hym by þe rygge bane.
- a1450 7 Sages(3) (Cmb Dd.1.17)859 : The knyght drow out hys swerd anoon And smot out the rygge boon.
- 1486 ?Berners Bk.St.Albans (Blades 1881)leaf f iii/b : Than shall ye kyt the skyrtis the teeth euen fro, And after the Ragge boon cuttis euen also The forchis, and the sydes euen betwene.
- a1500 Bevis (Chet 8009)191/3822 : He sye..Arondell to the erth I-caste And his rigge bone all to-braste.
c
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)63a/a : Þe riggebones of þe rigge boon kepen and sauen þe tendrenes of bodyes ofbeestis.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)276a/a : His ruggebones strouteþ vpwarde as it were a fisshe.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)166/25-7,28 : Bonys of þe necke, as we haue aforsed, ben vij, & rigge boonys of þe brest ben xij, & of þe reynes ben v riggeboones, & vndir þe reynes ben iij riggeboones &..Þe boon of þe tail is maad of iij rigge boones.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)317/10 : Rigge boonys for her schortnes & for her strongnes ne ben not to-broke.
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)1344 : So ryde þay of by resoun bi þe rygge bonez, Euenden to þe haunche, þat henged alle samen.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)47/26 : By þe general anothomye iseyne of þe rygge bones and of al þe bakke.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)13b/a : A senewe..is flexible, sensible, strong, & towȝ, hauynge his bigynnynge fro þe brayn or fro þe Nucha, þat is, þe marowȝ of þe riggebonys.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)104b : A Rigbane: Spondile.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. ridge bone.