Middle English Dictionary Entry
wrist n.
Entry Info
| Forms | wrist n. Also wriste, wrest(e, wrost, wirste, virste; pl. wristes, etc. & vrestis. |
| Etymology | OE wrist, -wyrst. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The joint that connects and permits flection between the hand and the forearm, the carpus; ~ of the honde, honde ~ [OE hand-wyrst];
(b) the bones connecting the lower leg and the foot; also, the narrow portion of the leg just above the foot, the ankle; ~ of the fot.
Associated quotations
a
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Cmb Gg.1.1)114 : Mes entre le bras en la mein Si est trove la koute, [glossed:] the virste, de la mein [vr. the wryste of the hond].
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Arun 220)p.147 : Mes pur estre tot certeyn Est trove le cou de la meyn [glossed:] the hand wriste.
- c1350 Cmb.Ee.4.20.Nominale (Cmb Ee.4.20)206 : F. ad la cov roynouus: W. hath the wriste scabbut.
- c1400 Femina (Trin-C B.14.40)20 : Vous die de la cowe du mayne…ȝow y say of þe wrest of þe hand.
- a1425 Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Wel 225)153/773-4 : Þe powce is mare certene to deme of in þe left wrest þan in þe ryght wryst.
- a1425 Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Wel 225)430/1188 : Gutta…bredys in dyvers placys of þe body bod mast in þe joyntors, as in þe elbow, in þe wrystes, & in þe fyngyrs, sumtym in þe thowme.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)66b : Begyn at the cheppe that is sor and drawe so a down…þe nakyd fleshe and so do a longe the arme of þe same side till þu com to þe wreste of the honde.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)9.2258 : He heeld…Hand and fyngres aboue the coles briht, Til the ioyntes, fallyng heer & yonder, From the wirste [vr. wrost] departid wer assonder.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)534 : Wryst, or wyrste of an hande: Fragus.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)121 : Bynde hym aboue þe wryst abowte þe arme.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)106b/b : Nyȝe þe wounde as in þe arme wiþoutenforþ abouten þre fyngirmele from þe wriste of þe hand.
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)69/7 : Who-so haþ þe ȝoxyng…Take boþe þyn hondys and hold hym in hot water or the wrestes.
b
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)414/2 : Podagra is a sore euel in þe feet, and namliche in þe vrestis and soles…and comeþ of euel humours þat falleþ doun to þe wrest of þe foot.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)72/20 : The foot forsoþe haþ tharsim and metatharsim and þe wirste.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)46a/a : The foot is compouned of iij parties, þat is, of þe hele and of þe sole and of þe wriste þat is seid a pecten.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. wrist.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (a)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. hand-wrist.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (a)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. wrist of the hand.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. wrist of the foot.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- c1450 Nicod.(3) (Eg 2658)24/24 : They tyed cordes faste at his handewryst.
Note: Additional quot., sense (a)