Middle English Dictionary Entry
thun-wonge n.
Entry Info
Forms | thun-wonge n. Also thunwange, -winge, thonewonge, thonwange, (early) þunwænge & (error) þowwong; pl. thunwanges, etc. & thonewonggen, thonwangues & (early) þunwonga, ðunewenga, þunwunga, -wunge, (acc. or dat.) þunwangan & (?errors) thonewon, tongwongys. |
Etymology | OE þun-wang(e, -wænge, -wenge, -wonge, -wunge. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The temple of the head;—usu. pl.; also, pl. the pulse points in the temples [quots. c1150(?OE) PDidax.(1st) & ?a1500]; (b) ?the cheek; temples and thun-wanges.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)127/16 : Wið heafodhece cnuca þa wyrt mid ecede & mid ele ȝemengede, smyra þanne þæt heafod mid & þa þunwunga.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)163/19 : Wið heafodhece ȝenim þisse ylcan wyrte blostman, seoð mid ele, smire þanne ða þunwonga þarmid & ȝewyrð þæt heafod.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B:Berberich)p.138.1 : Þið [read: Wið] ealda & sinȝalum heafod-ece cnuca þa wurd, þat bete hatad, & gnid on þa þunwunge & ufan þat heafod.
- ?a1200(?OE) PDidax.(Hrl 6258b)7/17 : Þis synda þa tacnu þæs sares, Þæt is: Ærest þa ðunewenga clæppaþ, and eal þat heafod byð hefi.
- ?a1200(?OE) PDidax.(Hrl 6258b)13/25 : Ðanne scel mann settan horn aþ þunwangan.
- c1225(OE) Wor.Aelfric Gloss.(Wor F.174)536/3 : Timpus: þunwænge.
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Arun 220)p.144 : Moun haterel ouweke les temples [glossed:] thonewon [vrr. thonewonggen, thonewonges].
- c1350 Cmb.Ee.4.20.Nominale (Cmb Ee.4.20)22 : Iowe, temples, et iernoun: Cheke, thonewonges, and here-liste.
- a1400 Recipe MS Hal.in Rel.Ant.1 (Hal 335)54 : Mak ane emplaster, and lay on the forheyd and on the thunwanges, but enoynt hym first with popilion.
- a1425 Roy.17.C.17 Nominale (Roy 17.C.17)635/6 : Tempus: thonwangues.
- c1429 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)3285 : Sysera was a grete prince..Wham thorgh the thonwonges with a naile at the last perced Jael.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)493 : Thun wonge, of mannys heede: Tempus.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)1/21 : Take puliol ryall and seeth it in oyle & anoynte thi fronte & thi thonnwanges.
- a1450 Treat.Horses (Sln 2584)141/741 : Ley on a clout iiij fynger brod & also longe as it wol reche fro þat on þowwong [?read: þonewong] to þat oþer.
- c1450(?a1400) Roland & O.(Add 31042)82 : He sittes..With white berde large and lange, Faire of flesche..With a floreschede thonwange.
- ?c1450 Iff a man (Stockh 10.90)296/30 : It is good for þe hed-ake x kyrnellis of pepyr for to take, And grynd..well with eysyl amonge And drinke or bynde to þe thone-wonge.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)128a : A Thwnwynge [Monson: Thunwange]: Tempus.
- ?a1500 *MS Hrl.5401 (Hrl 5401)85b : Whan a man has euyll in þe hede, his brows begyn to fall..and..þe tongwongys [?read: thongwongys] betyn.
b
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)155 : Take vinegre & salt, & wasche wel hys temples & hys þonwonges, & he schal awake anon ryȝt.
- a1500 Hrl.2378 Recipes (Hrl 2378)91/2 : Take vynegre and salt and wasche wel his temples and the thonewonges and he schal wake anon-ryght.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. thunwang.