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escorce (s.xii/xiii)
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The form escorge2 is a cross reference to the following entry:

escorce (s.xii/xiii)

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escorche,  escors,  escorse,  escorze;  eschorce,  eschorche;  ecorche;  acorse  (escorge  GAUNT1 ii 334,  etcorche (l. eçcorce)  Receptaria 126.431)  
  FEW:  scortea 11,328a Gdf:  escorce 3,423c GdfC:  escorce 9,518c TL: escorce 3,964 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  écorce  TLF:  écorce  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

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1bot.trees(dry) bark (of tree): 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xivin )  La braunche quant ele enmarcist [...] gete sa escorce  Ancren1 123.15
( MS: s.xiv )  codicibus: escorchis  TLL ii 58
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  liber: (D) escorce  TLL ii 54, 55
♦(living) bark, sprout: 
( 1214-16; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  (Crusaders who had driven their lances into the ground) l’endemeyn les troverunt pleynes d’escorces e fluries  Turpin 269
♦outside, surface: 
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  Le pomme de cedre si est de tiel nature qe pres de l’escors par dehors est assez douz a goster  BOZ Cont 109
♦skin, peel: 
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  [P]ernez [...] les escorces de pommes gernettes [...]  A-N Med i 58
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  Adonc est li figeer pelez e le escorce est tote ostee  Ancren2 235.21
( MS: c.1325 )  Pernez le fruit […] e ostez l’ecorche que est dehors e pernés le fruit dedeins  Receptaria 126.431
♦shell (of nut): 
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  la noiz ki ad aspre e dure l’escorce defors [...]  Joshua Sermons i 10
( s.xiii; MS: s.xiii2 )  ele prist [...] l’escorce de nugauges  Orn Dames 228-9
( MS: s.xiv1 )  Pernez en esté les nugaces […] od tutes les escorches  Receptaria 13
♦chaff (of wheat): 
( MS: c.1300 )  Petala: cortices tritici idem, g[allice] les escors de furment  Bot Gloss 114.214
2bark used as a lamp-wick: 
( MS: s.xiii )  scincenduli cincenduli vel scicendeli : (A) escorces  TLL ii 50
♦lamp: 
( MS: s.xii/xiii )  lucubre: (O) escorces, keus (var. (D: xiii/xiv) kexis, eschors; (T: xii/xiii) cresils)  TLL ii 50
3a trifling amount: 
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  N’out en la terre duze homes si forz Qui vers li feissent une force La vaillance d’une petite ecorce  Gui War 8058
mene escorce
inner layer of bark: 
( s.xiii2/3; MS: s.xiiim )  E la meine escorce de su  Nov Chir ANTS 1080
l’escorce d’une breeche
fig.(as object of little worth): 
( 1312; MS: s.xiv1 )  Mordauncestre e fresche force Ne vouchent sauf en moy l’escorce De une breke  Plainte Am 487

See also:

corce 
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