1horned:
(
s.xii3/4;
MS: s.xiv2
)
bestes […] Horriblement cornues, crueles de corage
Rom Chev ANTS 7210
(
s.xivin;
MS: 1312-40
)
la vist Fouke serpentz cornuez, e les corns furent molt aguz
Fouke ANTS 45.21
♦
tipped with horn:
(
c.1292;
MS: c.1300
)
Puis voisent cumbatre […] oveke deus bastouns cornuz de une loungure
BRITT i 107
(
1329-30
)
les bastons cornez […] furunt ostez e alters bastons descornez lor furunt liverez
YBB 3-4 Ed III 554
2horned, crescent (moon):
(
1273-82;
MS: s.xivex
)
La lune en s’avenue Se montre cornue
Ross ANTS 4393
3hooked, curved:
(
s.xiiiin;
MS: s.xiii2
)
le nez out mesasis e cornus par devant
Boeve 1752
4chessgamespertaining to a bishop:
(
s.xiii;
MS: s.xiiiex
)
Ore juent ‘le giu des alfins’, Ke n’est pas povre ne frarins. Tut seit iceo qu’il seit cornuz […]
Eschez ANTS 17.274
chessgamesbishop:
(
s.xiii;
MS: s.xiiiex
)
Al neofime
(=move) vint avant li cornuz, Si li mostre ses corns aguz
Eschez ANTS 11.111
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