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muser2 (1200-50)

The form moiser is a cross reference to the following entry:

muser2 (1200-50)

musir;  moiser,  moisir;  mosir,  mousir  
  FEW:  mucere 6/iii,181b Gdf: GdfC:  moisir 10,163b TL: muisir 6,424 DEAF:  muisir  DMF:  moisir  TLF:  moisir  OED: MED: DMLBS:  mucare 1849c

v.intrans.

to go mouldy, be covered in mildew
( 1260-70; MS: s.xiv1 )  Vos dras qe ne volez user, [...] Ne les lessez suz vus muser E les povres de freit murir  Man pechez 4691
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xivin )  toutes maneres de pecchez, sicome sicome d’orgoil [...], d’espandier mies ou cervoise, de lesser choses musir, roiller ou porir, draps descosuz, empluz, dessanez  Ancren1 246.10

p.p. as a.

mouldy, covered in mildew
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  ou pour (=stench) de choses moisies e de fort flaur en nés  Ancren2 205.13
( MS: s.xivin )  Il avera payn musy ho cerveise assez egre  Rel Ant i 155
( MS: s.xv )  (a mixture of herbs, butter and olive oil:) E puis lessez estre .iiij. joures e taunt que il soit une poy chaune (l. chauve, chauvé?) amount e mousi  Five Med MSS 86.S48
grimy, squalid
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Kar ele (=a woman hermit) esteit trestute nue E si esteit tute mosue  Mir N-D 56.263
patinated, weathered (?)
( 1200-50; MS: s.xiiim )  bons denier, tuz vielz musiz d’antiquité  Pol Songs 121.84

[gdw]

See also:

chaufmosé  museler2  mussur 
This is an AND2 Phase 3 (I/Y-M) entry. © 2008-2012 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
moiser