tir1 (c.1192)

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tir1 (c.1192)

[gdw]

[FEW: 13/i,353b tirus; Gdf: 7,724b tir 1; GdfC: ; TL: 10,316 tir 4; DEAF:  tirus; DMF:  tir / tirus; TLF: ; OED:  tyre n.2; MED:  tire n.1; DMLBS: 3433c therus]
tirus,  tyrus  

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1zool.rept.tyre, kind of venomous snake from the East
( c.1192; MS: b.1294 ) Ma gent i vunt mu bien armé Pur vermine de la countré, Pur tirs (var. (Y: c.1275) tygres ) e pur autre serpens  132.D617
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 ) Tyriasis est de melancolie, si est semblable a un verm que est apellé tirus, kar sicum tirus par sa compression e par sa confricacion pert s’espuille, issi cels qui unt cele maladie se defrotent e degratunt tuz jorz  i 86.xix
( 1266-1300; MS: c.1300 ) Un autre semblance i a entrem vin et la serpent qui est apellés tyrus, car de li fait om triacle, et nonporquant il porte vennim  258.S57.51
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