lateryne (s.xv)
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lateryne (s.xv)

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[gdw]

  FEW:  later *5,197a Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF: ∅ DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅
 

The word seems to be a rare adjectival derivation of the Latin noun later ('brick, tile', DMLBS 1563c), documented in Lewis and Short, A Latin Dictionary, 1039b, as laterina ('a brick kiln', 1039b)

s.

oile de lateryne
1'brick oil', boiled lineseed oil used for glazing bricks (here used as a base oil): 
( MS: s.xv )  Si vous voiliez faire fewe volaunt, pernet une partie de colofyne e tant de souffre vife, .iij. parties de salpetur, e une poy d'oyle de lyne ou de oile de lateryne, id est oile de tewles. Lez avauntditz choses soient poudrez e resolous en lez oyles  110.S210
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