Middle English Dictionary Entry
sī̆ring(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | sī̆ring(e n. Also ciringe, siringa(m, ciringa, suringa. |
| Etymology | AL sȳringa a syringe & OF seringue, ceringue; cp. L sȳringa a hole for injection, an injection. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Med. (a) A hollow tube for bringing medicine to an interior organ or for irrigation of an ulcer; (b) a thin probe-like instrument for dislodging a stone in the urethra; (c) ?error for springinge ger.; ?error for firing ger.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)230b/a : Oleum Iuniperum..brekeþ stoon if it is y-do in to a bladder wiþ an instrument þat hatte suringa, and is a smal pipe by þe which medicyne is y-do in to þe bladdre.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)145a/b : A depe vlcus schal be cured wiþ wesschynges casten in to þe vlcus wiþ a ciringe after þat þe dispocicioun of hete oþer of colde of þe member askiþ.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)167b/b : Þei schal be casten inne wiþ ane iniectorye oþer wiþ a siringe.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)9/24 : Siringa is an holow instrument by þe middez, and it ow to be made of the shappe as it is peynted here..ne haue it noȝt but oon hole in þe neþer ende.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)33/30-32 : I toke a siryng of siluer and a bleddre y-bounden aboute ful of sanguis veneris, and þe siryng y-putte in þurȝ oon hole and þe bleddre compressed wiþ þe fyngers, þe oile inȝetted went out by al þe holes togidre on boþe sides.
b
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)278/35 : Þan þe stoon is in þe necke of þe bladdre..þou schalt presse liȝtly þe place of his ars þereaboute þat þou supposist þat þe stoon sittiþ; & if he remeue not in þis maner, þan þou schalt putte in siryngam liȝtli in þe condijt of his ȝerde til he come to þe stoon; & if þou myȝt not putte it awei in þis maner, þan putte þi fyngir in his ers, & þere þou schalt fele þe stoon, & helpe wiþ þi fyngir for to putte it awey.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)149b/b : Afterward wiþ a..argalia or cirynga [Ch.(2): ciringe; L syringa] anoynte wiþ butir or wiþ som softe oile yput yn by þe ȝerde be it [stone] put fro þe necke of þe vesic vnto þe ground of it, or wiþ þe fyngerez..put in by þe towelle be done þe same.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)525/1 : Argalia or cirynga is a smal pype..ipersed in þe poynt and in þe sides. At þe coppe þerof it is brode in þe maner of an embote, in þe whiche a purse of lether or a swynes or a schepes bledder may be bounden.
- ?a1450 Arderne LW (Em 69)116 : To the weche [stone in the urethra] avayleth hyghly Siringa, that is to seye ane instrument that schalbe made of sylvere or of latone..it may be made..of Craftymene that maken pynnys..With this instrument thou mayest putte awey the stone in the bladdere.
c
- a1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking in Studia Neoph.1619 : Ne suffre no reyn to wete [the hawk], be syringe of [?read: or] bathyng [*Rwl.Bk.Hawking: wete noþer by firyng of bathyng], she take no hunderynge of here mewynge.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. syringe.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. syringa.