1zool.(wild) beast, animal, creature:
(
1113-19;
MS: s.xii3/3
)
Chevere est un' itel beste Qui munted alt pur pestre
1775
(
1121-25;
MS: s.xiv1
)
Sailent bestes ruistes de mer
1058
(
s.xii3/4;
MS: s.xiv2
)
Icist sunt bon archier e bien traient a best[e]
6726
(
s.xiiiin;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
As bestes pert e as oiseals volanz E en la mer as peissuns nuanz
923
(
1267;
MS: c.1300
)
Ces cinc sens a dreit Sunt en checun manere beste K'ad dreit desposé la teste
1841
(
MS: s.xiii2
)
feris: a beytes
ii 6
(
c.1325;
MS: c.1325
)
Bestes sure tere, en ewe peyson
3
♦
zool.livestockdomesticated animal:
(
s.xii2/4;
MS: s.xiii2/4
) Ainz en ala o ses pastors, O de ses bestes ot plusors
296
(
c.1292;
MS: c.1300
)
P. a tort ad surchargé sa commune de pasture de N., issi qe il ad plus de bestes mis qe a li apent de mettre
i 384
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: s.xiv1
)
hoc pecus, pecoris: beste
6
(
1312-13
)
dit fut en ceo plee qe ch[ev]res ne sunt pas bestes ne porcz pur ceo qe ch[ev]res dest[r]uent la commune et porcz fouwent la terre
Ed II xiii 126
♦
herald.representation of an animal (as a personal device):
(
1428-32
)
une aultre couppe d’argent dorré, pounçonné de racinez et de beste monseignur
C9
(
1433-34;
MS: c.1449
)
ung dragour […] esmaillé ou milleu de la beste de mondit seigneur
B184
2skinscomplete fur of animal:
(
1364-72
)
deux chaperons chescune de quarante ventres de menevoir pur, et cent et vint bestes d’ermyns [...] trente et deux ventres de menevoir pur et quarante bestes d’ermyns
E101/395/2/45
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