Middle English Dictionary Entry
tēsen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | tēsen v. Also tese, teise, taise & (early) tesien, tæs; p.ppl. i)tesed, i)teised, taised. |
| Etymology | OE tǣsan; sense (e) may belong to ME teisen v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. tosen v.(1).
1.
(a) To separate and clean (the fibers of raw wool, flax, etc.) by drawing a comb or other instrument through them, card; (b) ~ upon, to use (a fuller's perch) in order to raise the nap on (cloth); (c) ~ under, of a bird: to pluck or peck (at a part of its body with the beak); (d) cook. to shred (the flesh of poultry or fish), chop;—also without obj.; ~ smale; ppl. tesed, shredded; (e) hunt. to drive (an animal) by harassing, chase; ~ forth.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1200(?OE) PDidax.(Hrl 6258b)27/9 : Nim þanne ane panne and seoð þane rusel and þat wyn swa swyþe, fort se ruse[l] habbe bedruncan þat wyn; nim þanne wulle and tæs hy and maca hy swy[l]ce anne clyþa and leȝe þa scealfe on uppan and bynd þanne to þan sare myd ane clæþe.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)118a/a : It is to be examined first if he be dede or quike in touching þe pulse..in puttyng a floc of wolle or cotoun y-tesed in þe mouth & þe noseþrillez & a scutel or a dish ful of water if þe brest be moued.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)157b/a : Þer is put wiþ in þe ventose alitel of stupez drie, carpinate, and tesed [L carpinata], and it is inflammed wiþ a brynnyng candele And sodanly it is applicate and þe aier consumed.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)25/24 : Þe medicyne..y-put to wiþ clene stupes and smal, or wiþ coton wele y-tesed.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)97 : Tak fayre herdis of flax, on [read: or] of hempe, and tese hem a brood, and ley hem abrood on acloute, þat lyþe on þe heued.
- c1425(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)48 : Ȝeue to þe pore, þat he may see go to his bedde, or to do sum good werk; or to wold womman, þat scho spynne or teese her wolle, or do sum good wark.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)126a : To Tese wolle: Carpere, Elicere.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)191/25 : For it is not, trowe ye, lesse synne to wymmen in syche tymes for to diȝte here lynnen or tese here wolle þen to do deedes of vnchastite as detracions or of stryuyngis.
- c1500 Recipe MSS Hast.in HMC (Hnt HU 1051)1.423 : For scallyd hedes..tak a lynen clote and ley it on the hede and tak fayr flax tawe, or hemp tawe, and teise hem abrode on the clote that lyth on the hede til the cloute be overhelid.
b
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)366/53 : Mid one follares preche, þat men tesieth [Corp-C: teseþ] opon cloth, Opon þe scolle he was i-smite, þat is brain out drof.
c
- a1450 Dur-CRO.Bk.Hawking (Dur-CRO Roll D/X/76/7)32/166 : Wherby sal þu knawe þe awguttes [read: angulles]..Scho wil wax boþe drie and lene, and also scho wil taise mekil with hir beek ondir hir bely.
d
- c1400 Sln.7 Cook.Recipes (Sln 7)99.74/11 : Tesed [Yale 163: Loke thu have brawn of capons, fesauntez, or pertrygges, sodyn tendyr & cosyd small].
- a1425(a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)102.22/10 : Take brawn of capouns yteysed, oþer of fesauntes teysed small, and cast þerto.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)10 : Take brawn of Capoun, an tese it smal an bray it.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)43 : Nym Milwel or lenge þat is wel y-wateryd, & tese þer-to.
- c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) (Hrl 4016)89 : Caste thereto tesid brawne of Fesaunte, partrich, or capon, a good quantite.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)102 : Teese the braun of capon or henn small and put the rise to the mylke & boile it.
- a1500 Ld.Cook.Recipes (LdMisc 553)114 : Nym ye perch other ye loppestere or drie haddok, tese therto, and boille hit.
e
- c1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)1169 : What wylde so at-waped wyȝes þat schotten Watz al to-raced & rent at þe resayt, Bi þay were tened at þe hyȝe & taysed to þe wattrez.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)107 : He..oweþ to sette þe greihound and ho so be tesours to þe kyng or to þe quene or to þer lesshes; As oft as eny hert commeþ, he shal whan he passed blow a moot and rechace and lette hem after to teise it forþ.