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▪ I. † il, ile Obs.
[OE. iᵹil, íl = OHG. igil (MHG., Ger. igel), MLG., MDu., Du. egel, ON. igull, going back, with Lith. eżýs, Gr. ἐχῖνος, to a pre-Teut. *eghĭ-nos, -los, a deriv. of eghi-, Gr. ἔχι-ς adder.]
A hedgehog. (In OE. also a porcupine.)
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. xxxv. 241 Se iil..ᵹewint he to anum cliewene and tihð his fet sua he inmest mæᵹ and ᵹehyt his heafod. Ibid., Ðonne bið ðæs iles heafud ᵹesewen. c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 123/21 Istrix, se mara iᵹil. c1050Martyrol. in Cockayne Shrine 55 He [St. Sebastian] wæs ðara [stræla] swa full swa iᵹl..biþ byrsta. a1200Fragm. ælfric's Gram., etc. (Phillipps 1838) 8 Prikiende so piles on ile.
Hence † iles pil, ilespil, ilspile [OE. píl pointed stick, dart, prickle], prop. a spine of a hedgehog, but used as the name of the hedgehog itself.
a1225Ancr. R. 418 Ne bere ȝe non iren, ne here, ne irspiles [v.rr. yleslipes, ylespilles] felles. c1305St. Edmund 47 in E.E.P. (1862) 88 As ful as an illespyl is of pikes al aboute. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 339 Þere lakkeþ also..ilspi[les], [v.r. ilspiles; Caxton ylespiles], wontes and oþere venemous bestes.
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