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mueisun (s.xii1)

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

mueisun (s.xii1)

muison,  muisun  
  FEW:  mutare 6/iii,285a Gdf:  muoison 5,449c / muison 1 5,446a GdfC: TL: müaison 6,391 DEAF:  müer (müaison)  DMF: TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:

s.

1change, transformation
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Cel e terre erent renové E ben de ben en mielz mué; A cele bone muison Ne partirunt ja li felon  Salemon 6475
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  (Jupiter) Dragun deveneit u serpent, Oisel u beste asez suvent; [...] Tels muisuns asez feseit  S Clem ANTS 11199
2change, intervention
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Chantez al Seignur abitere de Sion, annuncez en pueples les mueisuns de lui (Latin: annuntiate in populis commutationes ejus)  Camb Ps 12.IX.11
3changeability, inconstancy
( s.xii4/4; MS: s.xii4/4 )  Beneurez est ki [...] a cel grant bien sun cuer plie Que mueisun de tens ne mue  S Cath barking 17
4orn.falc.zool.moulting (i.e. the shedding of feathers in the process of changing plumage)
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  un ostur [...] La setme mueisun l’ai joe ja fet muer  Horn 633
( MS: s.xiiiex )  Des or voil comencer reisun Cumfaitement unt mueisun. Ki del muer volt estre mestre, Bones chars deit l’ostur pestre  A-N Falconry 59.394

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See also:

muage  muance  mue1  muement  muer1  muer2  mutabilité  mutation 
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muison