Middle English Dictionary Entry
squāmǒus adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | squāmǒus adj. Also squamouse, -ose, swamous. |
| Etymology | L squāmōsus |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Having scales of skin caused by disease, scabby; also, as noun: a scaly condition of the head [3rd quot.]; (b) scale-like, flaky; (c) of a suture: formed by scale-like overlapping parts; (d) of fish: scaly, possessing scales.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)32b/b : Of excrescencez..Som squamous [Ch.(2): scurvy; L squamose], fistulous, & cancrous; som forsoþ noȝt.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)114a/b : Þai ar vlcerate with squamous, i. scabby [Ch.(2): shaly], vlcerez furfurose, i. branny.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)120b/b : It is demed þat þis passion is hard for to cure, ȝe, bot olde, squamose, & callose þat corrodeþ þe herez is so mych laborose þat Rogerine luffeþ more for to leue it.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)119a/b : Þou most ben riȝt diligent in þe mundificacioun of þes scrofules & glandules þe whiche ben squamos, for þei ben riȝt harde to clense.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)103a/b : He..haþ foule fleisch glandelous or knotti, or scrophul and squamous, þe which comeþ of salt fleume and of malancolie.
b
- a1450 Diseases Women(2) (Sln 2463)64 : Her vryne..is whyt & thynne, and whiȝt swamous [DW(3): squames] mater hangyng in þe vryne.
c
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)11a/a : He denyed noȝt þat ne þer war oþer 2 [bones] in euery side hauyng squamous [*Ch.(3): squamouse oþere scali; L squamosas] commissurez & mendose.
d
- a1425 Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Wel 225)114/1394 : Fode lyght of kynd causys red colour, & þat is kynd colour, as pullane, & fyssh of mene quantite, & mostumble, & squamous, id est, scheld.
- ?a1450 Arderne LW (Em 69)115 : Squamous ffyssches, i.e., fyssch of the rivere, of the stony waterys & rennynge ryveres.