1coll.zool.animals, living creatures, fauna:
(
s.xii1;
MS: c.1145
)
Iceste mer grande e spaciose […]; Almaille petiz ot les granz; iluec les nés trespasserunt
105.103.27
(
s.xii1;
MS: 1155-60
)
Les tues almailles
(Latin: Animalia tua) habiterent en li
113.LXVII.11
(
1267;
MS: c.1300
)
Le syme jour la tere ahurnastes De amaile
(var. (Y: s.xiii4/4) animale
) e de bestes
30
(
s.xivin;
MS: s.xivm
) veirs est sans nul fail qe femme est plus pussant de tot animaillie
76.n9 (var. A)
♦
coll.livestock(herd, flock, etc. of) (domestic) animals, livestock, cattle:
(
1174-75;
MS: s.xiiex
)
riches sunt d’almaille, de bofs e de chevals
1182
(
c.1290;
MS: s.xv1
)
al vert terail
(M.E. landschar) Ou li pastour siet ové l’aumail
(M.E. orf)
(B) 101r
(
MS: c.1305
)
tote manere de aumayle, ceo est a saver, boefs et vaches
14
(
1309-11
) .c. acres de more e .c. acres de bruere a comuner ové tote manere de animaille par mi tut l'an
Ed II iv 201
(
s.xiv1;
MS: s.xivm
)
la gresse […] de aumail que pris est de beste
69rb
2
zool.
(domesticated) animal, head of livestock:
(
c.1200;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
Mil almailles
(var.
(E: c.1220-40) Mil aignels
) sacrefiat le jur: Cele sacrefise plut mult al Creatur
(B) 12429
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aumaille (s.xii1)