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aleine1 (s.xii1/3)
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aleine1 (s.xii1/3)

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aelene,  alaine,  alein,  aliene  (aline (l. alme?)  HENLEY2 400,  allaine  Lett Rois 516,  alloine  Div Mun 466,  alyne,  helesne  Gloss Garland 173)  
  FEW:  anhelare 24,576b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  aleine 8,74a TL: aleine 1,279 DEAF:  alaine  DMF:  haleine  TLF:  haleine  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

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1breath, breathing: 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiii2 )  Cymbra est d’une pere num [...]; Quant flot retrait l’em poet trover, U ele naist de la balaine, E par la vertu de s’alaine  Lapid 224.620
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin ) Ma vertu m'est afebliee E m'aleine mult enpeiriee  Rom de Rou wace ii 167.7608
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  doit le naffré tenir sa buche e ses narilles a sei que aliene ne s’en isse  A-N Med i 47
( s.xiii3/3; MS: s.xiii3/3 )  Ki sa alaine puslente avera, Li oisel le het  Fauconnerie 45
( 1396; MS: s.xv1 ) la gargalet l’ou moun alyne est passant  Man lang ANTS 4.7
2breathing-space, respite, intermission: 
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  E cil ne pout mes suffrir la peine De l’arsun (=St. Anthony’s fire), ke n’ad aleine, E crut tut jurs de mal en piz  Mir N-D 143.56
3soundwhistling, hissing: 
( MS: s.xiiiin )  Gramaticus sibulam dicit quod Gallicus ‘aleyn’  TLL i 248
4meteo.vapour, exhalation: 
( c.1230; MS: 1275-85 )  Niule vent de muistes aleines  Pet Phil 1769
bone aleine
sweet breath: 
( c.1290; MS: s.xivin )  les dames sunt ententives (M.E. bisie) Pur laver lour gencyves (M.E. goomes) […]; eles le fount pur bone aleyne (M.E. god breth)  bibb MS (C) 2vb
a, de, od dure, grande, grosse, halte aleine
1loudly, with a loud voice: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Si crierent a dure aleine  Mirur3 8160
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Si se pleinout de grant aleine De la hunte de sun fiz  Mir N-D 138.24
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  De grosse alyne fist manace En venaunt devers la place  S Fran ANTS 503
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv1 )  Si li dit o grosse aleyne: ‘Mangez, fiz a Sathanas’  boz Seven Poems 79.54
( s.xiv1; MS: s.xivm )  Mais a haute aleyne cria  Passion BVM2 106.1
2panting, out of breath: 
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Revent of (var. a) graunt alayne et dist al ray R.  LANGTOFT wright ii 72
par mal aleine
emotionin anger: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  E ki dirrat par mal aleine A sun frere parole veine, Il ert cupable de cuncile  Mirur1 131vb9
atraire sun aleine
to draw one’s breath, breathe (in): 
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  quaunt hume ne put atraire sa alaine ne hors mettre  A-N Med i 82
mettre en grosse aleine
emotionto anger, vex, make (a person) shout: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  E mielz volt perdre la Deu ceine Ke s’uxor mettre en grosse aleine  Mirur1 125rb14
recoverer sun aleine
to catch one’s breath, have a rest: 
( c.1200; MS: c.1220-40 )  Eve surdeit cum surse de fonteine Dunt Samson buit e recovri sa aleine  Anc Test (E) 4921
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xivin )  Un petit volum reposer E nostre aleine recoverer  Brut Royal 2999
rendre l’aleine
to breathe one's last: 
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Tant enfebli ke il vesqui a peine E si fu a rendre le aleine  Mir N-D 173.36
traire (sun (etc.)) aleine
to draw one’s breath, breathe (in): 
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 ) Li rois [...] Sent pres est ja de murir, Palist, a peine trait aleine  S Edw paris ANTS 3681
( s.xiii2; MS: s.xivm ) E triet aleyne avaunt qe dire Poet […] sa pensee  Blancheflour 158
( c.1300; MS: s.xivin ) La menore apoplexie est ke ne tout mye tut le sens, mes enfieblist les vertuz d’esperiz, mes le patient put oyr e ver, mes nient parfitement, e si font signe de mains ou des autre menbres quant ne poent nient parler, mes bien trehent lor aleine  A-N Med ii 148.60
( s.xiv2; MS: s.xiv2 ) si home ad fevre e il trahit se aleine a(l) peine  A-N Med ii 261
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