Middle English Dictionary Entry
shab(be n.
Entry Info
| Forms | shab(be n. Also ssab, (early) sceb & (error) seeb. |
| Etymology | OE sceabb, sceb. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. scab(be n.
1.
(a) Any of various skin diseases in humans causing itching, skin eruption, loss of hair, etc.; scabies; drie ~, impetigo; (b) any of similar skin diseases in animals; mange; (c) pl. pustules, sores, scabs.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)93/6 : Wið sceb [L scabiem] & wið teter nim þeos wyrt.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)227/12 : Wid scurf & wyþ seeb [OE sceb] nim þisse wyrte sæd & rosan.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)233/1 : Þane þe hi achoras nemneð, þæt is sceb, se foroft þæt heafod wexe bereafaþ.
- a1325 SLeg.(Corp-C 145)24/156 : Hure nas a stude bileued Þat nas fol of quiture & of ssab fram hure uet to hure heued.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)99a/a : Schabbe [L Scabies] is corrupcioun of þe skynne and comeþ of corrupt humours þat beþ bytwene felle and fleissche and hurtiþ & greueþ & defouliþ þe body..And humour so I-closid bytwene felle and fleissche..brediþ drye schabbe [L scabiem..siccam] & noȝt quyttirry..Drye schabbe [L Impetigo] is corrupcioun of humour..þat chaungiþ and greueþ þe body and makeþ it icche.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)53a/b : Prurigo: shabbe, ycchynge.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)395/15 : It is schewede þat þogh the schabbe be euel by way of tokene, neuerþelatter it may be good by way of þe cause.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)589/10 : Impinguo: to do a way drye shabbe.
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)40/6 : A goud oynement for þe schabbe: Take brynston and quikeseluer and verdegrece, [etc.].
b
- c1300 SLeg.Fran.(1) (LdMisc 108)309 : Þo bi-gan þe souwe a-non..To beo ful of schabbe and of buyles.
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Lev.22.22 : If it [sacrificial animal] were blynde, if broken, if hauynge fel wounde, if litil bleynes, or shab [WB(2): scabbe; L scabiem], or drye rownd shab [WB(2): drie scabbe; L impetiginem], ȝe shulen not offre hem to the Lord.
- a1450 Treat.Horses (Sln 2584)101/215 : But þat hors be holpe in tyme, þat mangew wol turne in-to a foule schabbe.
c
- a1350 Of Rybaudȝ (Hrl 2253)22 : Þe rybaudȝ a-ryseþ..shrapeþ on is shabbes ant draweþ huem to dewe.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)99a/a : If þe humour is flewmatik, ofte hit makeþ grete schabbes and white.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)315a/b : Bitter þinges..heleþ colde goute..and dryeþ colde schabbes.
- a1450 Treat.Horses (Sln 2584)105/268 : When it is drie rubbe him wel..til þe blod sprynge out of þe skyn amonge þe schabbes.
- ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh 10.90)154/24 : Elebourrus..helyth schabbys and morfewe and tetures.
- c1450 Agnus Castus (Bod 483)175/1 : Shabes [Stockh: rede dokke..is good to makyn skabbys rype].
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)70/17 : Nyme þe route of a netyl..wryng out þe ius and rubbe þer-with þy necke, and þe schabbes schal gon a-way.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. shab.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (a)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. dry shab.