borne (s.xiiex)
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borne (s.xiiex)

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[ FEW: 1,569a brunna; Gdf: 1,688c borgne; GdfC: 8,342b borgne; TL: 1,1072 borgne; DEAF:  borgne; DMF:  borgne 1; TLF:  borgne 1 / borgne 2; OED: ∅; MED: ∅; DMLBS: ∅ ]
boorne,  bourne,  burne (bogne)  

a._or_s.

1one-eyed (person): 
( s.xiiiin; MS: c.1300 )  Puis li ont par eschar mandé Que des bornes face flechiers  4679
( MS: s.xiii1 )  luscus: borne  ii 10
2pathol.med.squinting: 
( MS: s.xiii )  strabo: borne  30
( MS: s.xiiiex )  strabo gallice: (C) bourne (var. borne (H)MS: s.xiiiex; bogne (Hb)MS: s.xiii2)  i 343
♦slanting: 
( c.1230; MS: 1275-85 )  Le .ix. signe est Capricorne, Pur le solail ke dunt est borne, Kar dunc comence a monte[r]  2392
3pathol.med.myopic, short-sighted: 
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiii2 )  Oilz out burnes e mesasis  1032
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  en les moyes (=faults) jeo sui trop boornes et en les autri trop cler veaunt  12
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