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lapid.pumice stone, very light and porous volcanic rock:
(
c.1300?; MS: s.xivm
)
A blancher lé dens que sunt neirs. Triblez pomice, fetez pudre, pus le confiez od mel, si metez tut en un drapel lingn espés [...]
Med CompANTS 350
(
c.1300; MS: s.xivin
)
Donc pernét pomiz, si en fetes sotile poudre e frotés les dens dekes seyent enblanchis
A-N Med ii 158.93
♦lapid.implementpumice stone used to erase ink from parchment:
(
MS: s.xiii
)
Scriptor habeat [...] pumicem (glosse: pumiç) mordacem et planulam ad purgandum et equandum superficiem pergameni
TLL i 188.167 and ii 116.167
(
MS: s.xiiiex
)
Hec sunt instrumenta clericis necessaria: libri [...], pumex (gloss: (C) pomiz)(var.
(D: s.xiii/xiv) pomyce
) cum plana et creat
TLL i 200.56 and ii 137.56
(
1380
)
dys et oyt soldz pur parchemyn, papire, cire rouge, pomys, enk et autres choses necessaires et busoignables pur l’office de nostre chancellerie
GAUNT2 i 86.259
pomice (s.xiii1)