Middle English Dictionary Entry
werking(e ger.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | werking(e ger.(2) Also (error) þerkyng; pl. werkinges, (?error) werkenes. |
| Etymology | From werken v.(2). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Aching, discomfort; an ache or a pain associated with a disease or wound; also fig. [occas. difficult to distinguish from werking(e ger.(1)];
(b) headache.
Associated quotations
a
- a1425 Templ.Dom.(Add 32578)596 : Coueytysse, þat gredy gille, I calle it crampe and gret warkynge.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)6a : Pouder of betayne and hony…abatith þerkyng and diuerse akynge of þe stomake.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)16/38 : Tak brokes filth and do it in þe hole of þe tothe & it sall brek þe tothe & sese þe werkynge.
- c1450(?a1400) Siege Milan (Add 31042)358 : Þofe ȝe sees thies lordis be slayne, Ne hope ȝe noghte for alle þaire payne, Þat ne we sall solance see, Bot the werkynge of oure wondis sare Of the paynes of helle fele we no mare Bot hy to heuen one heghe.
- ?c1450 St.Cuth.(Eg 3309)2547 : Þe werkenes [?read: werkenges] of hir sekenes with in Began to debate and blyn.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)37.2 : Chasty me not in thi wreth, for tha pynes may suffis that i suffre, that is, thin arues ere festid in me, that is, thi vengaunce, as werkyngis of body and saule and many fald wrechidnes.
- a1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)26a/10 : An hard enpostume…clepid squiros…is hard with out eny worchyng…and in this he acordith not with cancre, for cancre worchithe.
- c1500(1446) Morstede Surgery (Hrl 1736)119 : Cold schodrynge…ys tokyne of deth…yff the pacienttes apetytte be put away and ther with hath gret werkynges and may not slepe.
b
- a1425 *Wel.225 Recipes (Wel 225)43/56 : For hedwark…Tak pellettre & chew þe rott iii days, & it sall clens þi heved & do away þe warkynge.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)523 : Werkynge, or heede ake: Cephalia.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)69/4,12 : For werkyng of þe hed: Take ii vnces of betayne and ii vnces off [hore-] hone and viii vncys of pyliol ryoll, and bray hem in a morter…frye hem in oyle dolye…and put it siþen cold in a boyste; Who so haue heed-werk, anoynte hym with þis oynement croswey in þe nekke, and folwe þe werkyng, wheder so it go abowthe [the] hed, makyng þer-on with þis oynement a cros.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. warking.