lyen.1
/lʌɪ/, U.S. /laɪ/ 1. † c. A cosmetic for the hair. (Cf. lye-pot n.) Obsolete.† d. Applied to urine used as a detergent; more fully chamber-lye n. Obsolete.
a. Alkalized water, primarily that made by the lixiviation of vegetable ashes, but also applied (esp. with prefixed word as in soap-lye, soda-lye) to any strong alkaline solution, esp. one used for the purpose of washing. †Also water of lye.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > lotion or bath > [noun] > specific
lyea700
eye-water?1593
mouth-water1598
arquebusade1739
eye lotion1797
black wash1805
mouthwash1806
bloodbath1834
starch bath1836
sulphur bath1843
whitewash1897
wax bath1916
the world > matter > chemistry > chemical substances > bases > [noun] > named alkalis or bases > others
lyea700
allantoin1837
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing agents > [noun] > water or solutions > types of solution
lyea700
capital?a1425
buck1562
lessive1597
cheese-water1599
buck-lye1632
pickle1782
lysol1891
a700 Epinal Gloss. 591 Lexiua, leag [Corpus and Erf. læg].
c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 364 Scinseocum men wyrc drenc of hwites hundes þoste on bitere lege wundorlice hyt hæleð.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 338 Wyrc him leage of ellen ahsan.
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 93 If þat þou waische hem boþe [a cankre & a foul vlcus] wiþ liȝe.
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 93 Þe vlcus is clensid wiþ þilke liȝe [v.r. leyȝe].
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. ii. 377 Wete hit [a tree] at the fulle Thrie euery mone a yer in lie allone.
c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 32 Take a gode quantyte of fyne leye, & put it on a potte..& whan þe ley is seþin hot, caste þe Pesyn þer-to.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 195 Watyr of legh þat is made wyth asschys & watyr..for asschys & hote watyr makyn good leyghe.
1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) i. ii. sig. a.vi But man shal be baptysed in necessyte with lye.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 60 The Lee or Lixivium wherewith the Women usually scour their Clothes.
1704 N. N. tr. T. Boccalini Advts. from Parnassus III. 287 Henry the Fourth, thought it an Honour to wash his Head..though some malicious People say, He did it not with Soap, but with hot scalding Lye.
1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 544 Muriate of potash. This salt..is prepared from the waste leys of the soap-makers.
1898 F. T. Bullen Cruise ‘Cachalot’ iv. 32 The officers..were content with ley, which was furnished in plenty by the ashes from the galley fire.
b. In wider sense: Any detergent material used in washing; a cleansing substance. Also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing agents > [noun] > water or solutions
watereOE
lyec1200
lavatoryc1475
lavament1598
lavature1601
loture1601
ablution1623
c1200 Vices & Virtues 95 Nis ðar non swo god leiȝe se teares.
12.. Prayer to our Lady 19 in Old Eng. Misc. 193 Mi brune her is hwit bicume ich not for hwucche leihe.
c1330 Spec. Gy Warw. 828 Þe hote teres of mannes eiȝe Makeþ clannere þan any liȝe.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 145 Þet is þet we byeþ alle y-wasse of onelepi leȝe, Þet wes mid Iesu cristes preciouse blod.
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 21855 Wyth wych water, dame Penaunce Maketh a lye..To wasshen a-way al ordure.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 324 The vrin of a yong Asse fole is supposed to thicken the haire: but there would be mixed some Spiknard with this washing lie, to rectifie the strong sent of the said vrine.
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. O7v Feacie (some say) doth wash her clothes i' th' Lie That sharply trickles from her either eye.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > preparations used on the hair > [noun]
lye1556
lotium1595
lavature1601
wash1670
lavatory1694
hair-oil1810
marrow oil1855
hairdressing1907
haircare1935
1556 J. Withals Short Dict. (new ed.) sig. Piv/2 Lie to wasshe the head with, lixiuium.
1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer ii. sig. U.i I reprehended a ladie of loue for occupyinge a certein kinde of lye that shined muche.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing agents > [noun] > water or solutions > types of solution > urine
lye14..
wash?a1505
chamber-lye1561
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 593/23 Locium, lye, or pysse.
2. Water impregnated with salts by decoction or lixiviation. Now rare.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > vegetable extracts or preparations > [noun] > lye
lixivium1572
lixivy1598
lixive1606
lye1634
lixivial1662
lixiviate1677
1634 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise (new ed.) i. xxiii. 77 The Lie of Rue, (that is the water wherein you have sod your Rue or herb~grace).
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. xii. 337 Colcothar or vitriol burnt..will make good Inke, and so will the Lixivium or Lye made thereof with warme water. View more context for this quotation
1647 N. Nye Art of Gunnery i. 14 Pour upon the said flower so much of the strained water, which I call lie or lime water, as will dissolve the flower.
1811 J. Parkins Young Man's Best Compan. 562 A ley made with tartar and gum-water.
1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) i. §43 They [waters] find their way into the sea, and so make the lye of the earth brine for the ocean.
1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) x. §461 The brine of the ocean is the ley of the earth.
3. The limpid acrid fluid which runs from a blister or the like; the ‘water’ which collects in the body in dropsy. Now only dialect.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > pus or matter
wursomeOE
yousterc725
warec1175
quittorc1300
corrumpciona1340
humour1340
atter1398
mattera1400
pus?a1425
filthiness1525
corruption1526
filth1561
gear1562
sanies1562
baggage1576
purulence1598
suppuration1601
lye1615
congestion1634
colluvies1651
collution1657
colloid1849
purulage1898
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 92 His Nauell suddenly opened whence issued so great quantity of the dropsy Lie, that his body fell to the wonted scantling.
1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. Lee (so pronounced),..the watery matter which issues from a wound or sore: as ‘It's more like lee than matter’.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations (sense 1), as lye-ashes, lye-brush, lye-cask, lye hominy, lye-kettle, lye-leach, lye-trough, lye-tub, lye-vessel, lye-wash. Also lye-pot n.
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 599 Hereupon comes Lixivus cinis, i. Lie ashes, which being drunk is medicinable.
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke ii. iii. 115 Lye-wash..is made of ashes and water.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 74 The Lye Brush is made of Hogs-Bristles fastned into a Board with Brass-Wyer.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 74 A Lye-Kettle..commonly holds about three Gallons.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 73 The Lye-Trough..is a Square Trough made of Inch-Boards.
1736 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer II. iv. 24 A Lye Tub, tho' generally neglected as the worst..for a Cooler, has really proved the sweetest and safest of any.
1763 Museum Rusticum (1764) 1 53 The straw in the bottom of your lye-vessel.
1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. 489 As soon as a form is wrought-off, the press-man to carry it to the lye-trough, and there completely rub it over with lye.
1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. ix. 63 A lie-cask, or, rather, an inverted pyramidical box to contain ashes.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Lie-leach.
1852 W. B. Dewees & ‘C. Cardelle’ Lett. from Early Settler Texas 20 Our subsistence was principally upon..a kind of lye hominy seasoned with hickory nut kernels.
1854 M. J. Holmes Tempest & Sunshine xv. 202 Now be keerful and not run afoul of the plaguey lye leech!
1882 J. Southward Pract. Printing (1884) 406 Lye is applied to the forme with a lye brush.
1919 J. P. Dunn Indiana II. 1170 A woman situated like Mrs. McCoy, in her Indian boarding school, with no food but lye hominy in the house..‘degraded her soul’ by cooking lye hominy.
1948 E. N. Dick Dixie Frontier 290 Lye hominy was made by soaking the whole grains of corn in lye water to remove the hulls.
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lyen.2
/lʌɪ/, U.S. /laɪ/ = lie n.2 4.
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1855 J. Ogilvie Suppl. Imperial Dict. Lye, a term employed, in railway lang., to denote the sidings or short offsets from the main line, into which trucks may be run for the purpose of loading or unloading.
1901 Daily Record (Glasgow) 31 Aug. 3 A boy..was accidentally killed at the lye of South Renfrew Station on Thursday night.
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† lyev.1
Cookery. Obsolete.
1. transitive. To mix; to thicken (soups, sauces, etc.). Cf. alye, ally v. 2.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > general preparation processes > perform general preparation processes [verb (transitive)] > thicken
lye?c1390
lirec1560
lithe1674
?c1390 Forme of Cury (1780) 17 Make a lyre of raw ayrene and do þerto Safrone and powdour douce, and lye it up with gode broth.
c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 13 Take Vele..and hakke it to gobettys..and lye it with Flowre of Rys.
c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 19.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 12 Loke þou lye hit with amydone.
2. To bind or tie. In quot. 1621 figurative.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > bind or tie [verb (transitive)]
i-knitc1000
knitc1000
distrainc1374
lye1621
internect1664
1621 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 167 He shall neede noe bonde to lye him to it.
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lyev.2
/lʌɪ/, U.S. /laɪ/ transitive. To treat with lye.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > wash [verb (transitive)] > wash with lye
lye1805
leep1895
1805 Ann. Reg. 875 Ley the thread once.
1823 E. James Acct. Exped. Rocky Mts. I. 195 They sometimes prepare this hard corn for eating by the process of leying it, or boiling it in a ley of wood ashes for..an hour or two.
1888 Sci. Amer. 8 Dec. 356/2 The air is to be..excluded from the surface of fruits left standing after having been either lyed or washed.
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