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borne1 (1164)
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borne1 (1164)

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boorne,  bourne;  burne  (bogne)  
  FEW:  brunna 1,569a Gdf:  borgne 1,688c GdfC:  borgne 8,342b TL: borgne 1,1072 DEAF:  borgne  DMF:  borgne 1  TLF:  borgne 1  / borgne 2  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

a. or s.

1(one) with only one eye or blind in one eye, one-eyed: 
( 1190-1210; MS: c.1300 )  Puis li ont par eschar mandé Que des bornes face flechiers  Waldef BB 4679
( MS: s.xiii1 )  luscus: borne  TLL ii 10
2pathol.med.squinting, affected with strabismus: 
( MS: s.xiii )  strabo: borne  Vernac Glosses 30
( MS: s.xiiiex )  strabo gallice: (C) bourne (var. (H: s.xiiiex) borne; (Hb: s.xiii2) bogne)  TLL i 343
♦slanting: 
( c.1230; MS: 1275-85 )  Le .ix. signe est Capricorne, Pur le solail ke dunt est borne, Kar dunc comence a monte[r]  Pet Phil 2392
3pathol.med.myopic, short-sighted: 
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiii2 )  Oilz out burnes e mesasis  S Geo 1032
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  en les moyes (=faults) jeo sui trop boornes et en les autri trop cler veaunt  Sz Med1 12
4 name (used as a surname): 
( 1164 )  William le Borne  Family Names Born
( 1185 )  Walter le Borne  Family Names Born
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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