Middle English Dictionary Entry
sod(de n.
Entry Info
| Forms | sod(de n. |
| Etymology | From MDu., MLG sōde. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A piece of cut turf, a sod; (b) a nasal polyp, clot.
Associated quotations
a
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.6 : Kerve a grene sod..And kover þy pot with þo gresse done, Þo salt on þo gresse shalle barke fulle sone.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)116b : A Sodde: turfe.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)24/59 : Sex hundreth yeris & od haue I, without distance, In erth, as any sod, liffyd with grete grevance.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)101/21 : As heuy as a sod [rime: cod], I grete with myn eene..for care that has bene.
b
- a1450 Chauliac(4) (Cai 336/725)28/5 : Of vlcers & polip or sod in þe nose.