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cornu2 (s.xii3/4)
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cornu2 (s.xii3/4)

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corné  
  FEW:  cornutus 2/ii,1207a Gdf:  cornu 1 2,307a / cornu 2 2,307a GdfC:  cornu 9,204a TL: cornu 7,879 DEAF:  cornu 1  DMF:  cornu  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

a.

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
( 1402 )  qe null homme use baselardes, daggers cornues […]  Rot Parl1 iii 506
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

s.

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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