Middle English Dictionary Entry
burǧing ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | burǧing ger. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Growing, budding, sprouting; (b) a shoot or sprout; fruit.
Associated quotations
a
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)142/8 : The coldis and the hetis of the Somer and the wyntyr helpyth to the Spryngynge and the bourgynge of naturall thyngis.
- a1500 PParv.(KC 8)56 : Burgynge:..pullulacio.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)224b/a : But bourgynge [of the fig tree]..ripeþ nouȝt, but þey be ferst y korue.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)228b/a : Borgynge hatte germen, and germen is y take for a borgeonyng graffe.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)253b/a : Snayles..freteþ burgynge [L germina] and leues of þe vyne.
- 1468 Medulla (StJ-C C.22)48 : Germen: A bergyng.
- a1500 PParv.(KC 8)56 : Burgynge: Germen.