Middle English Dictionary Entry
slīmī(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | slīmī(e adj. |
| Etymology | From slīm(e n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Muddy, marshy; full of silt; (b) viscous, viscid; of water: containing alum; (c) slimy to the touch; covered with mucus [last quot.]; (d) slippery, slithery.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)154a/b : Þe ryuer gyon..comeþ oute of paradys & is ycleped þe þonyng [?read: yonyng] of þe erþe, oþer erthy, slymy, and wosȝy.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)10.61 : Barly..hatith slymy lond & marlis white, And as wel lene hit loveth and rubrike.
- 1483 Cath.Angl.(Monson 168)345 : Slymy: limosus.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)76a/a : Slymy watir & glewy [L Aqua..aluminosa et bituminosa] keliþ & dryeþ and stanchiþ rennynge of blood & heliþ emeroides.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)197b/a : De bitumine..Gluwe is slymy glew of þe erþe and gleymyng and gendryng namelich in marys place.
- a1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)1815 : A calcidonye in slymye substance Folowith the berille with grees of variance.
c
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)297a/b : Þe frogge is watery and morisch, cryinge and slymy, wiþ a grete wombe..and is venemous.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)323b/b : The eyren of addres þat hatte aspides beþ litil and rounde, wonder ȝelew, slymy and gleymy.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)5.392 : Þanne come sleuthe al bislabered with two slymy [vr. slymed] eiȝen.
d
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)281b/b : Coluber..slydeþ and wygeliþ in slider draughtes and wralles and in slymy passyng.