Middle English Dictionary Entry
burse n.
Entry Info
| Forms | burse n. |
| Etymology | L bursa |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A pouch, a purse; (b) an external hemorrhoid; (c) the scrotum.
Associated quotations
a
- [ (1286) Wardrobe Acc.de Clare in Archaeol.7042 : Item pro reparatura cuiusdam Burse de serico facte. ]
- [ (1415) Invent.Agincourt in Archaeol.7093 : Vnum integrum vestimentum..cum frontell et contrafrontell et parura operata ad modum vnius Burse. ]
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)150a/a : A burse [*Ch.(2): purse; L bursa] of leþer or a bledder of a swyne.
b
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)71/24 : If any man..haue as it war pursez aboute þe lure..þe leche may..kutte away..al þo bursez.
c
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)18b/b : Þerfor þer bene within dyndym & þe burse þe 4 bodiez yseid.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)48a/b : Hernia aquose is aposteme aquose in þe burs of þe testiclez.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)51a/b : Apostemes of þe codde of þe burse of þe priue stones.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. burse.