Middle English Dictionary Entry
tū̆tīe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | tū̆tīe n. Also tuti, tutẹ̄, tutti(e, tuthie, tuthia, toti(e, tittie & tucie, tuchie, tuchia, thuchia. |
| Etymology | ML tutia, tucia, thutia, AL tuchia, tuthea; also cp. OF tutie, totie, AF tuttie; ult. Ar. Quot. a1300 in sense (a) may be AF. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The crude zinc oxide obtained by the smelting of copper ore with zinc and freq. used in medicinal compounds, tutty, pompholyx; ~ ablute (washed, washen), washen ~, tutty purified through rinsing; ~ preparate, tutty sublimated through heating; ~ smal poudred, finely ground tutty; collirie (ointement) of ~; (b) a naturally occurring zinc ore containing zinc oxide; a piece or lump of this mineral.
Associated quotations
a
- a1300 Hrl.978 Vocab.(Hrl 978)559/13 : Tucia: tutie.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)95/4-5 : Anoynte þe wounde wiþinne & wiþoute with þis oynement of rasis & tutie [L thutia]; take ceruse, tutie I-waische & medle hem wiþ oile of rosis & wiþ ius of purcelane.
- ?a1425 Chauliac(1) (NY 12:Wallner)3.88/9 : It is best þat is bi panfilogon, i. bi tuthie washed [Ch.(2): wasshen tutty], with oile rosate liquefacte, i. molten.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)150b/a : Enoynte þe sore also wiþ ane oynement of tutye.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)184b/b : Take tuthye preparate, calamine, ana halfe ane ounce fiften clowes, ane ounce of honye combe wiþ þe honye.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)579/21 : Tutye [*Ch.(1): Tuthia] is preparate firste in brennynge, þat it may þe lighter be turnede.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)634/3 : In þe þridde, þe collirie of tuttie is putte..resoluynge and drieng straunge moysture of þe eyȝen in þe ende of obtalmya.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)53/5 : Take qwytwyn þat is aspere and nowt swet and put þer-inne qwyte copere and tuttye..þis wyl clarifye þe syth.
- a1475 Gilb.Angl.(Wel 537)46/18 : A colliry..to do awei þe ache: Take..ceruse..cathmie, tuchie.
- a1475 Gilb.Angl.(Wel 537)47/23 : But amonge þe corosiues, thuchia is oon of þe beste for yȝen.
- a1475 Gilb.Angl.(Wel 537)50/22 : Anoþir colliry: Take alloes and mirre and encense, calamina, ceruse, tuchia, of eueriche yliche moche.
- a1475 Gilb.Angl.(Wel 537)52/11 : If þes freten not awey, take sum strengir freteris, as..spume of þe see, calamina, and tucie.
- a1475 Gilb.Angl.(Wel 537)61/22 : Take þe iuse of þes herbes and seeþ it in wiyn; And aftir, put þis poudre y-made of alloes and tute.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)68b/a : Þou muste ben aboute to regendre fleisch as þus..Tuthie ablute, þat is to seie, tuthie waischen.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)116a/a : Vnguentum tuthie..is þus maad..tuthie smal y-poudrid and y-waische wiþ watir of rosis two tymes and y-dried.
- a1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)30a/21 : Take toty and wasshith, and seruse.
b
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)100 : Take a stoon, þat men calle tittye..& take a wheston..& robbe on þe whitter syde of þe totye.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)95/27 : Originals er what þyng ys engelyd yn þe entrailles fo þe erthe, and yn þe depnesse of þe sees & in Cauees of hilles..In whom erthly Eyre hauys most lordschipe, as gold, syluer, Bras, Iryn, leed, and tynne, and stones, Margarites, Corale, Tuty [Ashmole: tutie; L tucia] and alany.
- a1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)1060 : Marchasites, Toties, & euery mynerall..Alle fille to nogthe in his operacions.