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eschine (s.xii3/4)
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eschine (s.xii3/4)

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echine  (enchine)  
  FEW:  *skina 17,112a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  eschine 9,515b TL: eschine 3,897 DEAF:  eschine  DMF:  échine  TLF:  échine 1  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  eschina 1 801c

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1anat.zool.spine, backbone: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  De la gent moité chiens e moité hommes [...]. Meins ont armees de ungles e d’escorce l’eschine  Rom Chev ANTS 4712
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Si ad une verge mult tost levé Sil frenna ben lung l’enchine Trei fez ou katre la pucel fine  Mir N-D 192.91
( MS: c.1250 )  Hec spina, Hoc spondile: eschine  TLL i 412
( MS: s.xiiiex )  spina: gallice eschine, anglice: rigbon  TLL ii 162
♦anat.ich.zool.backbone (of fish): 
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  Le no tantost en oustez, Bouwele e eschine ensi le frez  BIBB ROTH (G) 545
♦anat.zool.chine, cut of meat that includes the backbone of an animal: 
( s.xiv1/4; MS: s.xivm )  le qoer e le pomoun e lez pestles e la eschine (of a boar)  TWITI1 181
2anat.(sg. and pl.) vertebra: 
( s.xiii2; MS: s.xiii2 )  Fetes oigndre les reins e tut deske la fin des eschines  Med Treatise 152.157
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  spondilia: (D*) eschine (var. (C: s.xiiiex) lé juntures;  (C*: s.xiii) ruchbon et sunt iuncture: eschines; (D: s.xiii/xiv) lé eschines)  TLL ii 125

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chine1 
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