eschine (s.xii3/4)
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eschine (s.xii3/4)

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  FEW:  *skina 17,112a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  eschine 9,515b TL: eschine 3,897 DEAF:  eschine  DMF:  échine  TLF:  échine 1  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  eschina 1 801c
echine,  enchine  

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1anat.spine, backbone, vertebrae: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  De la gent moité chiens e moité hommes [...]. Meins ont armees de ungles e d’escorce l’eschine  4712
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiii3/3? )  Franceis i fierent as bons branz acerez, Trenchent espalles, eschines e costez  1133
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Si ad une verge mult tost levé Sil frenna ben lung l’enchine Trei fez ou katre la pucel fine  192.91
( MS: c.1250 )  Hec spina, Hoc spondile: eschine  i 412
( s.xiii2; MS: s.xiii2 )  Fetes oigndre les reins e tut deske la fin des eschines  152.157
( MS: s.xiiiex )  spina: gallice eschine, anglice: rigbon  ii 162
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  spondilia: (D*) eschine (var. (C: s.xiiiex) lé juntures;  (C*: s.xiii) ruchbon et sunt iuncture: eschines; (D: s.xiii/xiv) lé eschines)  ii 125
♦anat.ich.zool.backbone (of fish): 
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  Le no tantost en oustez, Bouwele e eschine ensi le frez  545
♦anat.zool.chine, cut of meat that includes the backbone of an animal: 
( s.xiv1/4; MS: s.xivm )  le qoer e le pomoun e lez pestles e la eschine (of a boar)  181
2 treesbot. tree-trunk (?): 
( MS: c.1300 ) Li arbre ke [c]haez serrunt Encontremont se drescerunt; Amunt turnerunt les racines, E contreval vendrunt lur eschines  153r
chine#1  eschinee 
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