agu (s.xii1)
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agu (s.xii1)

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[ FEW: 24,128a acutus; Gdf: 1,169b agu; GdfC: 8,54c aigu; TL: 1,214 agu; DEAF: ∅; DMF:  aigu; TLF:  aigu; OED:  ague n.; MED:  ague n. / agu(e adj.; DMLBS: ∅ ]
ague,  ageu,  agui;  agud,  agut;  acu,  aku;  aigu,  augu  

a.

1sharp: 
( s.xii2/4; MS: c.1200 )  et des agues pieres ki en fruissent entaillet hom les altres gemes  97.I.6
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  […] sicume rasuir agud (Latin: quasi novacula acuta)  90.LI.2
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv2 )  faucille ague bien trenchaunt  2679
( MS: s.xiiiex )  acuta cuspide: (C) par ague poynte  ii 43
♦sharpened, pointed: 
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  (the antelope) Dous cornes ad agues, Trenchanz e esmolues  763
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2 )  le destrer broche de l’agu esporons  3226
( MS: s.xiii1 )  preacutam: acu  ii 106
♦pathol.med.(of nostrils) pinched: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  L’orine [est] coloree roge ou susroge et le col graille et les narines agues  i 231
2geometry (of angle) acute: 
( MS: s.xiiiex )  Si li sovereins angles soit aguz  49.12
3pathol.med. (of illness) acute: 
( c.1300; MS: s.xivin )  aprés agues maladies  ii 155
♦fig.lethal: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Coment Alisandre al manger but la poison:[…] Agu prent la cupe si en beit bonement. [...] Li beiveres fut ague, e si chet trenchantment  C182
4steep: 
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  Tanz valz parfunz […] tant tertre e munz aguz  7390
5fig.astute, sharp: 
( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv1 )  mult est ly enf[es] Edmund De tenve sens (var. (B: s.xiv2/4) De acue sen ) e de parfund  1704 (var.)
( MS: s.xiiiex )  […] signefie agu engin e mençunger pleins de tricherie  49.11
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  bien apris en lettres grues et latines et de agu sen  145.17
♦cunning: 
( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv2/4 )  trop esteit felun veisin, Kar fel esteit vers ses procheins E mult cruel vers les lonteins, Gopil acuz vers ses parenz E enemi a tutes genz  1885
6culin.condim.spiced, pungent: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Contre voncher qui vient de agues viandes  i 212
( s.xiii2; MS: s.xiii2 )  Diaria pot avenir […] de viandes agues  150.56
ewe ague
ewe#1
fevere ague
fevere#1
pere ague
1implementwhetstone: 
( MS: 1419 )  ové un ague pier entour soun col  601

adv.

1sharply, keenly: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Dunckes ert bien enluminez E dunc verrat agu e cler  130ra23

s.

1point: 
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  les gros chefs (=of nails) esteyent […] rundz, mes le agu Esteyt beelung e referu  5669
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  Le hericeoun boute hors le agu de l’espyne  89
2implementneedle: 
( MS: s.xiii1 )  acus […] grosciscimas: tregros acus  ii 99
tresagu 
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