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baleine (s.xii1/3)
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baleine (s.xii1/3)

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balain,  balaine,  balainne;  baleein,  balein,  balene,  balenie;  ballaine;  beleine  (balaeinae Aelfric Gloss 46.112)  
  FEW:  ballena 1,222b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  baleine 8,279a TL: baleine 1,815 DEAF:  baleine 1  DMF:  baleine  TLF:  baleine  OED:  baleen n.  MED:  baleine n.  DMLBS:  balaena 176c

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1mammalsich.zool.whale, porpoise: 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiii2 )  Cymbra est d’une pere num, E si est d’un marin peissun, U ele naist as funz de mer, [...] U ele naist de la balaine, E par la vertu de s’alaine.  Lapid 224.619
( MS: 1155-60 )  Beneissez vus, baleines e tutes riens ki sunt moues en ewes (Latin: cete et omnia quae moventur in aquis) al Seignur  Camb Ps 280.13
( MS: s.xiii2 )  musculus: (C) baleyn (var. (D: s.xiii/xiv) baleeyn, wal; (L: s.xiii/xiv) balene, wallay)  TLL ii 66.61
( MS: s.xiii2 )  foca: (D) gallice baleyne, anglice wal, porpeis (var. (A: s.xiii2) porpeys)  TLL ii 19
( MS: s.xiii2 )  pistrin: (D) gallice baleine  TLL ii 29
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  balena: (H) balaine  TLL i 321.9
( 1266-1300; MS: c.1300 )  Les uns (=fishes) ont une pias sens escales, cum sunt balainnes et porpois et enguilhes [...]  Waterford busby 285.S99.13
♦ Bibl.mammalsich. whale, very large fish (cf. Jonah 1:17): 
( MS: s.xii2/4 ) Veire paterne, [...] Ki guaresis Jonas tut veirement De la baleine ki en sun cors l’aveit  Roland 3102
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii1 )  Li creatur ki fist Adam, E guari de la beleine Jonam  S Edm Pass ANTS 1017-18
2mammalsich.anat.zool.whalebone, baleen, material taken from the filtering plates in the mouth of a whale and used for its strength and flexibility: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  les cors soient armees sanz fer, corn e balenie  Mir Just 112
( 1341 )  .iij. paires de gauntz de baleyne  MSS Wales 678
3culin.mammalsich.zool.whale-meat: 
( c.1216-20; MS: 1419 )  rys, cermountyn, cotoun, baleyn  Lib Alb 230
( 1297 )  E de la baleyne, que vous [...] nous enveiastes, vus savoms bon gré [...] e nous en mangeames molt bien  Crisis 64.36
4ich.zool.(in error?) smelt, sparling: 
( MS: s.xiii2 )  ep[h]imera: baleine  TLL ii 81.61
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