Middle English Dictionary Entry
ters n.
Entry Info
| Forms | ters n. Also terce, tarse, (early) tears(e & (error) terþ. |
| Etymology | OE teors |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The penis; (b) ters(es hed, the glans penis; the glans penis and prepuce [last quot.]; yekes ~, q.v.; (c) ?an uncircumcised penis; ?the prepuce, foreskin.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.MQuad.(Hrl 6258B)255/10 : To wifef willan, þæs buccan ȝeallen meng wið recels & wið netelan sæd, smyre þane terþ [OE teors] mid æt foran to þas resteȝemanan; þæt wif onfeahþ þæs willan on þan hamede.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.MQuad.(Hrl 6258B)261/11 : Wið herþena sare & tearse, bares braȝen meng wið huniȝ & wryþ on; wunderlice hit hæled.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.MQuad.(Hrl 6258B)263/2 : Weres willan to ȝefremmenne, nyme bares ȝeallan & smira mid þane tears & þa herðan; þane hafað he micelne lust.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)55a/b : Recuticus: þat haþ a blered ters.
- a1475 Leve lystynes (Brog 2.1)p.31 : Now ȝe speke of tarse! In all þe warld is not a warse Than hathe my hosbond.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)44b/a : The ȝerde is an official membre..whiche men callen a ters but for curtesie wymmen callen it a ȝerde..a ters was principaly ordeyned for þat þe pisse & also þe spermatik mater schulden ben I-cast out.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)44b/b : Þe extremyte of þe ters is clepid prepucium & þe skyn þat helpiþ it is clepid tuffa.
b
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)44b/b : Bocchis þat ben vpon þe tercis heed nediþ þe strengere driynge medicyns þan þo þatt beþ vpon þe prepucioun or huske.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)44b/b : Al þat is bytwene þe ters heed & þe rote is al of oon schap, but his heed is compouned of tweye parties..of þe vttere and of þe ynnere, Of whiche þe vttere part is a double skyn or a tuf þat men callen prepucium.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)45a/a : This skyn was maad first for it schulde defenden þe tercis heed from noyauncis wiþoutenforþ.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)45a/a : The ynnere part, þat is þe terce heed bifore, is a sutil, brawny fleisch.
c
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)1 Kings 18.25 : The kyng nedith no sposeilis, but oonli an hundrid tersis [WB(2): prepucies, that is, mennus ȝerdis vncircumcidid; L præputia] of Philisteis, that veniaunce be doon of the enemyes of the kyng.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. tarse.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. tarse head.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. tarse's head.