Middle English Dictionary Entry
scorklen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | scorklen v. Also scorkelen; p.ppl. scorkled, skorkled, scorclid(e, scorcled, skorlklid. |
| Etymology | ?From scorcnen v. by dissimilation. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To singe (sb. or sth.), scorch; pathol. to alter the nature of (a humor) by unnatural heat; (b) to heat so as to parch (sb.).
Associated quotations
a
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.76vb (2.13) : Inopos & kyanos ar sometyme causede..by cause of adustion of blode, os when þe blode is scalt & scorclid [Glo 19 (120v): skorlklyd] & brent þorogh exces of vnkynde hete.
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.83rb (2.13) : Be cause of þe huge hete walmand and bulyand and hurlond in þe body, þe humores in the body ar forscalt and scorclid [Glo 19 (129v): scorcled] and brende, whiche scaldyng & brennyng of humores cause meny vapoures wonder subtil and thenne.
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.110ra (3.17) : In swiche maner of maladies, comunly þe blode is wont for to be scorclide and adust by þe sides & in þe extremites of þe veynes.
- c1435 Lydg.St.Marg.(Bod 686)414 : Skorkled [Dur-U: This gemme of maydenhede Was brent with brondus..Hir sydes skorched].
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)450 : Scorklyd: Ustillatus.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)450 : Scorkelyn: Ustulo, ustillo.
- c1450(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Glo 19:Harvey)f. 132v: : Colre is al fully aduste, .i. alle forscalt & brent & scorkled [Roy 17.D.1 (f.84vb (2.14)): scolcrid].
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)79.26 (v.2:p.81) : His face was scorcled that al the skynne of his chekis ferde as it had be rymplid liche an olde brent purce.
b
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)2.m.6.27 : Nero governede alle the peples that the vyolent wynd, Nothus, scorklith [vr. scorchiþ; L torret] and baketh the brennynge sandes by his drye heete.