Middle English Dictionary Entry
wẹ̄d(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | wẹ̄d(e adj. Also wedde. |
| Etymology | OE wēde. Some early exx. could also be construed as p.ppl. of ME wẹ̄den v.(2); cp. awẹ̄̆d(de, p.ppl. of awẹ̄den v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. wod(e adj.
1.
(a) Of a person: senseless, insane; of an animal: savage, rapacious; raging, rabid; also used in fig. context or as epithet; also, as noun: insane people [2nd quot.];
(b) ?as surname.
Associated quotations
a
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)96/678 : Under þis com þe þurs Maxence, þe wedde wulf, þe heaðene hunt, aȝein to his kineburh.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Roy 17.A.27)57/494 : Godd…arerde þe deade…ant draf of þe wedde [Tit: awedde] awariede wihtes.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)8/8 : Ich iseo me, lauerd, bistepped & bistonden ase lomb wið wedde [Roy: wed] wulues.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)36/9 : Monie cumeð to ow ischrud mid lombes fleos & beoð wedde wulues.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)149/1 : His teð beoð attrie as of a wed [Nero: wode] dogge.
- a1275 On leome (Trin-C B.14.39)36 : To him ha weren ful [t]ore, I-burst asse wedde bore, So pilatis hem heit.
- c1390 NHom.Narrat.(Vrn)17.273/106 : Euere from wouh to wouh he ede, ffor flessches lust made him almest wede.
- a1500 Awntyrs Arth.(Dc 324)558 : Ner Gawayne wax wede, So siked he sare.
b
- (1296) Sub.R.Sus.in Sus.RS 1061 : Willmo le Weed.