† tayteyn.
Obsolete.
1. A case, sheath, outer covering.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [noun] > a coat or covering layer
rindOE
cloth1398
tayc1440
skina1475
coat1567
slough1610
hulling1708
surtout1732
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 487/2 Teye, of a cofyr or forcer, teca, thecarium.
2. A web or cataract in the eye.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > cataract
pearla1382
suffusion1398
cataract1547
tay1547
eye-pearl1597
eye-web1657
hypophysis1706
pearl eye1844
gutta opaca1847
nuclear cataract1876
1547 R. Record Judic. Uryne 59 b It healeth creythys, and also the webbe and the tey in the eye.
1597 P. Lowe Art Chirurg. (1634) 31 Some cataract or taye which covereth the prunall called the windowe of the eye.
1597 P. Lowe Art Chirurg. (1634) 166 The Cataract or tey.
3. The outer membrane of the brain. [Compare French teie dure = dura mater n.] Also taken as ‘skull’, and ‘brain’.
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the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > [noun] > membranes > dura mater
tayc1350
hard mothera1398
dura materc1400
dura1882
pachymeninx1890
c1350 Nominale Gall.-Angl. 6 Toup canal et ceruel, Toppe tey and the brayne.
a1568 ‘My wofull Hairt’, etc. 44 in Bannatyne Poems (Hunterian Club) 83 Vpoun my heid thay thrang a croun of thorn,..The thorne pykis thay to my tay dang doun.
c1580 tr. Bugbears i. i, in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1897) 98 306 In stide of taies, he hathe bugbeares in his head.
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