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bout1 (1121-25)
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bout1 (1121-25)

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bot;  boute;  but,  bute   (bontz (l. boutz),  bouht  Qu Mary’s Ps 28v,  boue ),
pl. bous,  boutz,  bouz,  noz,  buz  
  FEW:  *botan 15/i,211b Gdf:  bot 2 1,692a GdfC:  bout 8,359b TL: bot 1 1,1085 DEAF:  boter (bot)  DMF:  bout 1  TLF:  bout  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  bottus 1 210c / butta 2 230b

s.

1push: 
( MS: s.xiii1 )  levi pulsu: par legere bute  TLL ii 106
♦thrust, blow: 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  (A griffin and an eagle in combat) Colps e flammes e morz e buz Se entredunent  S Brend mup 1021
( s.xiii1/4; MS: s.xiiim )  Sin recevon les buz e les colees  Ch Guill 2621
♦ weapons thrust (with a spear): 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  Lors veissiez [...] Granz barates e granz meslees, Boz de lances e cols d’espees  Rom de Rou wace ii 185.8062
2end: 
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiv2 )  Aley a bout de la vile  Amis 876 (var. C60)
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  Les bous (M.E. hentes) de la table e les cures (M.E. sydes) Coverez de nape  BIBB ROTH (G) 1023
( 1316 )  faire lé boutz  (ed. le bontz) de la bale de meillour chose qe ne est le remenant deynz la bale  Grocers Ap II
( c.1325; MS: c.1325 )  Ore estoyt une fonteyne a bout de la vile  Bible Holkham 40.9
( c.1338 )  une chambre de novel faite a l’autre bout de la sale  Northumb 100
♦end, tip: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  (punishments) [...] la perte d’oreille, ascuns par perte des bous des langes, ascuns par ban  Mir Just 132
( 1300; MS: s.xiv1 )  O crois blanche o bouz flouretee  Eight Rolls 109.350
( 1433 )  [...] la seint croix, avecques les iiij evangelistes aux iiij boutz d’icelle  Bedford Inventories B98
a bout
upright: 
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  E la fole esbai estut Cum en eschekere en pet (=on foot) a but  Mir N-D 52.87
a (de) bout
immediately, without hesitation: 
( c.1200; MS: s.xivin )  E en viles entrent partut E ocient la gent a bout  S Osith 780
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  Li arceveske e li grant humme Voient ke ceste voie a Rumme Au regne serroit periluse: Del granter a but refuse  S Edw paris ANTS 1502
( c.1352 )  d’aler [...] a de bout en la havene de Kaleis  ROUGH 249
(tut) de(l) but
1head on: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Jeo voil Alisandre de but guerreier  Rom Chev ANTS 7280
2without hesitation, outright: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  il m’ad requis, E jeo lui ai de bout pramis Que al patriarche parlerai  S Jean ANTS 4642
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  si li dit de but: ‘Jo le voil’  Mirur2 2764
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  jeo vus refus de bout  Mir N-D 129.129
( 1405 )  seilerent tout debot a la porte de Arnemouthe  Smit 513.828
3completely, utterly: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Passe le Humbre, saisis tut, Pren les terres tutes de but  Brut WACE 2084
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  A Deu sunt par mei cunverti E tut de but vus unt guerpi  S Clem ANTS 14774
( s.xiii2/3; MS: s.xiii2 )  perduz serrat tut del bout  Calendar 76
4at a, in one gulp: 
( MS: s.xivin )  Ces treis herbes bevez de but  Pop Med 213
croiselez lez boutz gemelz
gemel
(estre) au bout du tonel
tonel
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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