Middle English Dictionary Entry
brushe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | brushe n. Also brocche, brosc, broshe, bruch, brusse. |
| Etymology | OF broce |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Brushwood, bushes; (b) a bush, shrub, young tree; -- often pl.; (c) area covered with bushes, a thicket; (d) ?bits of straw, lint, or the like.
Associated quotations
a
- (1404-5) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.103605 : It., pro lucracione de brusshe in Ferycliff, 10 d.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)54 : Brusche [Win: Bruch]: Bruscus.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)8338 : Þey comaunded to al men lyk, Wiþ brusch to come & fylle þe dyk.
b
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)26/4 : Bawme growes apon smale brusches [OF petitz arbrasseoux], as it ware of a fote height.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)133/16 : I sawe as it had bene ane ile of treesse and bruschez [Tit: buscaylle] growand.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)178a/a : Iuniperus is a brush or bush.
- c1475 Rwl.Prov.(Rwl D.328)118 : On betyt the broscus [L frutices], a-nother hath þe bordys.
c
- ?a1400 Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Petyt 511)12821 : Brusse [Lamb: By þe wodes side in a busch Was many a stour].
d
- c1460(?c1400) Beryn (Nthld 55)1482 : Evir a-mong, þe brussh a-wey she pikid ffrom hir clothis here & þer.
2.
(a) Bushes or twigs as material for brooms; (b) a brush [?orig. one made of twigs].
Associated quotations
a
- (1423-4) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.177/1163 : Item, for bromes bowght att dyuerse tymes of brooche and brome.
b
- (1392) Will York in Sur.Soc.4184 : j brusche, j speculum.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)13.460 : Thus haukyn..hadde ysoiled his cote, Til conscience acouped hym þere-of..Whi he ne hadde wasshen it or wyped it with a brusshe.
- (1415) Invent.Agincourt in Archaeol.7089 : Item, iiij sadil brusses, pris ij d.
- (1454) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)353/11 : Item j Brusshe for the costerynge.
- (1466) Acc.Howard in RC 57376 : My mastyr paid for ij broshes to send to Stoke.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)941 : With the ende of a soft brusche, ye brusche þem clenly.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)19b : A Brushe for payntours: celeps.
- c1500 Recipe MSS Hast.in HMC (Hnt HU 1051)425 : Then mak a brusch of a squyrelle tayle and glase the cloth ther with and it wylle shyne.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- c1475 Yale-BA.Artist.Recipes (Yale-BA R486.M43 1450) 100/23 : Forto refreysche clothe of golde, take fayere ly and hete hit scaldyng hote, and ley the clothe abrode and with a brusche glase hym ouer.
- a1500 Sln.122 Artist.Recipes (Sln 122) 121/6 : Put hit in a clene pot and hete hit eftsones..and take a brosche and wasche þyn ymage þerwith.
- a1500 Rwl.C.506 Artist.Recipes (Rwl C.506) 166/18 : Take orpyment and grynde it small and temper it with gumid water, and sett it on þe cloþe with a broche.
- a1500 Sln.1698 Artist.Recipes (Sln 1698) 246/22 : Forto make redd..lether. Take a fayr clene skynne and ouer-brosshe hit with molten cole, and lat hit drye, and þan with a brosshe ley on vermylon or rede lede tempered with cole, [etc.].
Note: Additional quots., sense 2.(b).
Note: New spellings (brosshe, brosche, broche)