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nuus (s.xiii1)
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nuus (s.xiii1)

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noueus,  nous,  nuous; 
f. noueuse,  nouse,  nousse,  nuouse,  nuuse  
  FEW:  nodus 7,173a Gdf:  nouus 5,511c GdfC: ∅ TL: nöos 6,801 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  noueux  TLF: ∅ OED:  nodose a.  / nodous a.  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  nodosus 1923a

All the TLL and Gloss Nequam citations are glosses to the same Latin original of Alexander Nequam’s De Nominbus Utensilium.

a.

(of wood) full of knots, gnarled: 
( MS: s.xiii1 )  nodose: (J) nouses (var. (D: s.xiii1) masues nuuse)  Gloss Nequam1 247.69
( MS: s.xiii )  nodose: nuouse  TLL ii 121.69
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  Assint lancee, catapulte, [...] clave nodose (gloss: massues nousse), fustes, torres ignem sapientes [...]  TLL i 184.69 and ii 71.69
♦med.knotty, having lumps or excrescences: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Come li podagre ou li cyragre est faite noueuse, si est non garissable  A-N Med i 248

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See also:

nu1  nuer1  nuet1 
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