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coillon (s.xiii1/3)

The form coliousez is a cross reference to the following entry:

coillon (s.xiii1/3)

coillion;  coilon,  coiloun;  cuilon,  cuillun;  cueillon,  cuoillon;  cullun,  culum;  quilunt, 
(pl. coliousez,  gulinz  A-N Med ii 254.114)  
  FEW:  coleus 2/ii,888a Gdf: GdfC:  couillon 9,215b TL: coillon 2,540 DEAF:  coil  DMF:  couillon  TLF:  couillon  OED:  cullion n.  MED:  coilons n.  DMLBS:

s.

1anat.testicle
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  destempre l’en opium de cele muscilaginité et enoigne l’en les coillions  A-N Med i 239
( MS: c.1250 )  hic test[ic]ulus vel hec mentula: coylon  TLL i 421
( MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Si femme veut engendrer […] De coillons de ver (=boar) face poudre  Medica 23rb
( s.xivin; MS: 1382 )  Vyt, coyloun (M.E. ballok) et furchure  Nominale 41
( 1378 )  auscuns qe ne veullient raunsoner a eux ils lour colleront les coliousez (l. colionsez), & les files de vous liges ravissont  Rot Parl1 iii 42
( 1396; MS: s.xv1 )  lez cuilons, le cul, le hanche  Man lang ANTS 4.12
anat.scrotum
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  la vessie, la quele come ele est destendu et emplie, si prent (=squeezes) et fait presse au coilon qui est pres de lui  A-N Med i 236
anat.ovary
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  venimeuse esperme qui est entor les coillions de la matriz  A-N Med i 243
2fig.pej.worthless fellow
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xivin )  Li franc sunt par li eshaucé, Li serf, li quilunt abeissé  Brut Royal 2056
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