brunir (s.xii2/4)
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brunir (s.xii2/4)

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[ FEW: 15/i,309b *brun; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: 8,389c brunir; TL: 1,1181 brunir; DEAF:  brun (brunir); DMF:  brunir; TLF:  brunir; OED:  brown v. / burn v.2; MED:  brounen v. / burnen v.; DMLBS: 227c burnire ]
bornir,  bourner;  bruner;  burnier; 
p.p. burnois,  burnut; 
p.p. brunit  

v.a.

1colourto darken, make brown in colour: 
( MS: s.xiii )  fusco: brunir  168
2to burnish, polish: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  Mout voissiez viande atraire [...], apareillier escuz et armes [...], espees et healmes forbir, Haubers relier, espiez brunir  ii 317.260
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  (God) Puis les (=saints) burnist e desoscure  3014

v.n.

1to gleam, shine: 
( s.xiii1/4; MS: s.xiiim )  Par tut burnient espees e healmes  610

p.pr._as_a.

1gleaming, shining, burnished: 
( MS: s.xii2/4 )  La bataille est e merveillose e grant; Franceis i fierent des espiez brunisant  1621

p.p._as_a.

1colourdarkened, made brown in colour: 
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  fuscatus: bruné  i 142
♦colourbrown: 
( 1214-16; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Charlemayne nostre empererz estoyt brunys des chevus  949
2gleaming, shining, burnished: 
( s.xii2/4; MS: c.1200 )  Adamas est clere cume cristal, mais que ele ad colur de fer brunit  97.I.2
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  les healmes burnois  3784
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  une grant temple [...] de fin or burnir  249.166
( 1347 )  Jeo devys [...] les coverturs burnutz de plate qui sount pour mon destrer  i 43
brun  brunet  brunissement  burnisching  burnisour 
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