dyer
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Searchable Lemmata: dier (AF), deier (ME), dyer (MdE).
Alternate Forms: degher, deigher, dier, diere, digher, di3er, dir, deyare, dyere, dyghere, dayer, deygher', deyer', dyare, dyh3ere.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Occupation;
one who dyes cloth; frequently appears alongside proper names in legal records.(ante 1300 still in current use)
2. [A361] ... An haberdasshere and a carpenter, / A webbe [vrr. webbere, webster], a dyere, and a tapycer [vrr. taphiser, Tapecer, tapecere], / And they were clothed alle in oo lyueree / Of a solempne and a greet fraternytee ... [A.365] Ful fressh and newe hir geere apiked was / Hir knyues were chaped noght with bras / But al with siluer ... / Hir girdles and hir pouches euerydel.
Poetic.
[MED Chaucer CT.Prol. ((Manly-Rickert) A.361-368) circa 1390]
3. [310a/b] ... The colour indicus & fenetus is blew colour ... also such colour is in azure; but here of loke tofore in tretys ... of þe stoon lazulus. ... [311a/a] ... Þey þat dyeþ wolle and cloþe ben y-cleped dyeres ... Stibium is a feyned colour y-made of Cerusa and of oþer þinges medled; þer wiþ wymmen peynted here face ... [318a/b] ... Þe machche is made of hempene þreed.
Philosophy.
[MED *Trev.Barth. ((Add 27944) 310a/b-318a/b) ante 1398]
Sex: Male, Female Use: Secular Status: n/a Rank: n/a Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, From the verb dye (ME deien; cf. OE *déaȜere).
WF: Derivation
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