Middle English Dictionary Entry
shillen v.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | shillen v.(1) Also shille, shilen; p.pl. shilde, shulde. |
| Etymology | OE scillan, scyllan. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
To sound loudly, resound; also, refl. of a horn: cause (its sound) to resound; ppl. shillinge as adj.: resounding, loud; also, pompous, bombastic [quot.: a1387].
Associated quotations
- c1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)44/23 : '[C]vm,' quoð þe culure wið schilinde steuene, 'ant stih to þe wunne & to þe weole of heouene.'
- c1300 Horn (LdMisc 108)12/220 : Þoruuth eche toune Horn him shilleþ [vr. haþ loude] soune; So shal þi name springe Fram kinge to kinge.
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)4740 : Þe folk schirsten so heiȝe and loude Þat it schilled into þe cloude.
- c1330 Orfeo (Auch)25/272 : He..harped at his owhen wille; In-to alle þe wode þe soun gan schille.
- c1330 7 Sages(1) (Auch)56/1246 : Þai gunne arere swich a cri Þat hit schillede in to þe ski.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)631 : Hure strokes fulle so styþ & sare þay schulde so doþ þe þonder.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)727 : Helmes & scheldes þar-wiþ to-breken & schilde so doþ þe þonder.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)7.331 : Lanfrank..despisede þe smokynge and schillynge [L ampullata] speche of mysbyleved men.
- a1400 Siege Jerus.(1) (LdMisc 656)527 : Knyȝtes..Ȝeuen a schillande schout, schrynken þe Jewes.