Middle English Dictionary Entry
bitūmen n.
Entry Info
| Forms | bitūmen n. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A kind of mineral pitch.
Associated quotations
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)20 : Thei ded bake erde onto the hardnes of ston, and than had thei tow erde, clepid bitumen; with these too thei made the Toure of Confusion.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)30 : Moises..was..put in a vessel of wykyris, fillid the joyntis with tow erde, cleped bithumen, and so put in watir.