Middle English Dictionary Entry
puls n.
Entry Info
| Forms | puls n. Also pols. |
| Etymology | OF pous, pouls, pols & L puls. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Coll. The seeds of any leguminous plant, used as food; ~ corn; (b) coll. leguminous plants; (c) a species of leguminous plant.
Associated quotations
a
- (1297) Doc.in Rogers Hist.Agric.2174 : Polscorn.
- (1355-6) Acc.Abingdon in Camd.n.s.516 : De j quarterio pols' vendito, iij s. iiij d.
- (1388-9) Acc.Abingdon in Camd.n.s.5153 : Et de xij d. de puls' vendito.
- (1400) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)7.27 : [2 quarters of oats or] puls.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.650 : Puls decoct & cold To yef hem [chicks] first is good & holsum holde.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.723 : Al maner puls is good, the ficche outake.
b
- (1388-9) Acc.Abingdon in Camd.n.s.5153 : Et de xij d. de stramine puls' vendito.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)2.58 : Whan..puls & benys [L faba et legumina] fyngris foure ascende Abouen erthe, hit is to wede hem blyue.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)12.28 : Now lyne and puls [L lenticula] is sowe as is the gise.
c
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)7.55 : For fodder now is tyme, and euery puls [L gloss.: legumina].