Middle English Dictionary Entry
seim(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | seim(e n. Also saim(e, same. |
| Etymology | OE seim & OF säim, saime, seim, sein. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Grease, lard, melted lard, esp. that derived from cows, pigs, or fish; swin(es ~; whit ~; (b) ~ (of) barli, barli ~, ?barley beer; ?barley water.
Associated quotations
a
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)211/15 : Ȝe ne schulen nawt eoten flesch ne seim [Cleo: saim] bute for muche secnesse.
- a1325 Add.46919 Cook.Recipes (Add 46919)51.42/4 : Mince oygnons in god saym.
- a1325 Add.46919 Cook.Recipes (Add 46919)55.53/4 : Do to speces & ȝolkus of ayren vor te wel lyen, & soþþen hem in cler seym.
- (1352) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.149 : [1 cask and 3 bales of pork-fat, 1 pipe of] seym.
- (1373) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.158,159 : [One barrel of] seym..[one barrel of mixed] seym..[one tub of black] seym.
- c1400(?c1380) Patience (Nero A.10)275 : He..stod vp in his stomak þat stank as þe deuel; Þer in saym and in sorȝe þat sauoured as helle.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)37/23 : Tak þe rute of horslne & stamp it & fry it in a panne with swyne sayme.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)70/33 : Tak whete mele & gude wyn & do whitte sayme þer-to.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)71/4 : Tak larde & mak sayme þer-of, [etc.].
- a1450 Treat.Horses (Sln 2584)133/648 : To suche smertyngus..of senwes þou schalt ley hote þyngus & perforatifs as oile, seyme, hony, or wyn.
- a1450 Treat.Horses (Sln 2584)141/732 : Make a plaster of smalache & of walwort & of askes of eldertre y-grounde wel al to-gedere & chaufe it in same oþer in wyn.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)219/6 : Caste þerto a good quantite of may-butter and capun-grece and clene fete sayme and fry hem wel to-gedyr.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)234/744 : Shere clote levys small and primerose leves, fry hem in saym, and lay it about þe pyntell.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)608/45 : Saginum: saym.
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)21/4 : Þenne take virgine wex and ferches schepys talew and hony and mays botere and sueynys saym, of eche y-liche moche.
- c1525(1473) Oak Bk.Sou.Ordin.in Sou.RS 1099 : No Burgesse nor other man shall buy or sell from hensforth any of soine drible seine [F seim] that is called blobb; Also of euery barell the hed shalbe smytten out at the highe fludde of the sea, and that it passe not the flude marke where the cleare seame shalbe drawn.
b
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Arun 220)p.158 : Taunt de vertu de la grees, [glossed:] barly seym, De servoyse fet de bres.
- a1333 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Add 46919)506 : Seym of barlich [vr. fatt saym barly; glossing AF (Cmb): grece de orge].