Middle English Dictionary Entry
sūen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | sūen v. Also seuen. |
| Etymology | OF süer, suier, AF/ONF suwer. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Of a hawk: to wipe (the beak) clean of food.
Associated quotations
- a1450 Dur-CRO.Bk.Hawking (Dur-CRO Roll D/X/76/7)24/57 : Þen rewarde hir apon þe nek and þe hede to þe tyme scho haue sewyd hir beek and dryed hir.
- a1450 Dur-CRO.Bk.Hawking (Dur-CRO Roll D/X/76/7)24/66 : Go to þe bruke and wessh þi mete And reward þi hawk þerwith..And lat hir fle no more in-to time scho haue sewid hir beek or reysid hir.
- a1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking in Studia Neoph.169 : In the begynnyng of termes of haukynge, who so woll hem lere, he schall hem fynd sex þer ben of termys..The iiij is þat an hauke suyth is beke and not wypeth.
- 1486 ?Berners Bk.St.Albans (Blades 1881)leaf b iv/a : Whan yowre hawke hath slayne a fowle..let hir not flie..tyll..she haue Reiosed hir, that is to say, tyll she haue sewed or snyded her beke.
- 1486 ?Berners Bk.St.Albans (Blades 1881)leaf c viii/a : She bekyth when she sewith, that is to say, she wypith, hir beke.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking in Studia Neoph.16 (Hrl 2340)10 : Yeve her to reward þe brayn…and lete here not fle afterwordes til she have sewyd here beke or rowsed here.
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