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essecher (s.xii1)

essecher (s.xii1)

esechir,  essechier  
  FEW:  siccare 11,583a Gdf:  essechier 3,570a GdfC: TL: essechier 3,1296 DEAF:  sechier (essechier)  DMF:  essécher  TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:  exsiccare 2 866c

v.trans.

to dry out, make dry
( 1266-1300; MS: c.1300 )  La char de savage beste est plus chaude et plus seiche [...] por ce qu’il sunt en grant movement [...] et sont escafei et essechiés par la chalor du solel  Waterford busby 265.S66.9
to drain, empty (a body of water)
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 ) Tu derumpies la fonteine e le desrube, tu essechas les forz fluvies  Camb Ps 131.LXXIII.15
med. to dry (a wound), stop bleeding or suppurating
( MS: s.xv ) le pudre del herbe k'ad a noun croyse, si est bon pur essecher ordes playes ausy  Five Med MSS 151.E362

p.p. as a.

pathol. desiccated, deprived of moisture
( s.xiv2; MS: s.xiv2 ) s’il est esechi e eit verte colour o cendren o blef, demusture la mort ad vener  A-N Med ii 256.116

See also:

assecher  ensecher1  secher1 
This is an AND1 entry © MHRA 1977-1992: reproduced with permission. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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