Middle English Dictionary Entry
shin(e n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | shin(e n.(1) Also shinne, shzine, chin(e, shen(e, (early) scine & (?error) skin; pl. shines, etc. & shinnus, shennen. |
| Etymology | OE scinu, (in cpds.) scin-. For forms in -e- also cp. MLG schēne, schenne; for form in sk- cp. MDu. schene, scene. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The leg below the knee; the front part of the lower leg, shin; also, the shinbone; ?also, the leg [quot.: NV Psalter]; (b) ~ bon [OE scin-bān], the shinbone, tibia; ?also, error for chin-bon [1st quot.]; (c) ~ bond, = shin-baude n.
Associated quotations
a
- c1225(OE) Wor.Aelfric Gloss.(Wor F.174)537/5 : Sura: sperlire; Crus: sceonke; Tibia: scine.
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)1060 : Þu were in ume [read: inume] in one grine, Al hit aboȝte þine shine.
- ?c1335 Elde makiþ me (Hrl 913)p.171 : When i bihold on mi schennen, Min dimmiþ al fordwynnen, Mi frendis waxiþ fewe.
- a1333 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Add 46919)146 : Thar shen in the sparlire [glossing AF (Cmb): En la chaunbe avez la zure].
- ?c1350 Swete ihu cryst (BodLtrg 104)13 : At prime ihesus was y-lad pilatus by-fore..Hiis schines were y-beten, hiis honden weren y-bonden.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1279 : The pure fettres of his shynes grete Were of his bittre salte teres wete.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.386 : But greet harm was it, as it thoughte me, That on his shyne [vr. schene] a mormal hadde he.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)16/14 : If þat þe wounde be in hise schynes [L cruribus] & in hise feet, it were good þat he lay & traueilide wiþ hise hondis.
- a1400 NVPsalter (Vsp D.7)146.11 : Noght in strenghþe ofe hors sal he haue wille, Ne in schines [WB(1): the leggis; L tibiis] ofe man queminge bes him tille.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)11.423 : Shame shrapeth his clothes & his shynes wassheth.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)88/37 : I was noȝt wount for to remoue bot fro þe þrid day into þe þrid day, and þat namely in hurtyng of þe schynnez.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)446 : Schynne, of a legge: Crus.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Merlin (Corp-C 80)2102 : Thanne lefte He vpe His staf Anon and overthwert the Schenys smot him thus son.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)236/12 : Take þe schyn of an hare and brennet in a new erthen potte and poudyr yt, [etc.].
- ?c1450 St.Cuth.(Eg 3309)4038 : Alsone þe seke man slepid on right; Aboute mydnyght he begynnes Forto drawe to him his shynnes.
- c1460(?c1400) Beryn (Nthld 55)3893 : He did nauȝt ellis..Tyl he had vs cauȝt, even by the shyn, With his sotill wittis, in our owne gren.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)74a/b : Þou schalt taken good hede wheþer þat þe boon be kutt al atwo wiþ þe fleisch and þe senewe, as often tyme it is seen, Sumtyme in þe arme, and sumtyme in þe þiȝe, and sumtyme in þe schyne.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)113a : A Schyn: Sura.
- a1500(a1450) Ashmole SSecr.(Ashm 396)112/15 : Grossenesse of shynnes shewith boldnesse and strength.
- a1500 MSerm.Mol.(Adv 19.3.1)82 : He fell doun..and brake bothe his schynnus.
- ?a1500 The propyrte of (Hrl 7371)p.269 : Schropschir, my schinnes ben scharpe.
b
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)272 : Ðe hertes hauen anoðer kinde..weðer so he swimmeð er he wadeð Is non at nede ðat oðer lateð, Oc leigeð his skinbon on oðres lendbon.
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Cmb Gg.1.1)148 : Les kanel, [glossed:] shzine bon [vr. chine-bon], saunz blezure.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)8.65 : Arthures scheen boon [Higd.(2): boon of the legge]..was lenger by þre ynches þan þe leg and þe kne of þe lengest man þat was þoo i-founde.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)47/16 : A man muste biholde, wher þat þe boon be kutt al atwo..in þe boon of þe thie & schene boonys.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)85/29 : Licium..haþe vertu mundificatyue..and regeneratyue of flesch in a bare bone and in schynne bonez.
- c1450 Dc.Prov.(Dc 52)p.56 : Wyst euery man how bretell were his shen-bon, Wolde he neuer lepe, there he myhȝt gon.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)678/32 : Sura: a chynbone.
- c1500 Recipe MSS Hast.in HMC (Hnt HU 1051)1.423 : Loke that the shyn bone be safe, and it be rotyn, clense it first.
c
- c1475 Awntyrs Arth.(Tay 9)p.15 : In stele was he stuffut..His gloues and his gamesuns gloet as the gledes..With his schene schinbandes [Thrn: schynbawdes], scharpest in schredus.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. shin.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. shin bone.