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morsellus

morsellus, ~um [ML] 1 morsel, bite, small piece of food. de lumbis ejus [sc. capri] tres ~os accipe Adel. CA 10; magnos ~os vaccine in aqua tepefactos donec albescant ei appone Ib. 13; cepit garrulare cum astantibus, non plus curans quam si ~um panis in ore suo teneret Eccleston Adv. Min. 120; s1245 quolibet mane manus ad celum levant. comedentes, primum moysellum in aera faciunt. bibentes, prius partem in terram fundunt Ann. Burton 273; morcellum totum comedas vel detur egenis Stans Puer 30 l. 17; signum crucis super ~um murene que est in disco meo (V. Edm. Rich) NLA I 322 (cf. V. Edm. Rich P 1812A: morsum); ad omnem autem ~um esce vel haustum poculi, deberemus laudare Deum Rolle IA 267; hic murcellus, hec buccella, a musselle WW. 2 small piece; a (unspec.); b (of land); c (of artefact). a bolus, -li, i. ~us Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 62; a morselle, bolus, buccella, ~us, frustum, frustulum CathA.  b dimisit ‥ ~um terre ibidem reddens unum boisellum frumenti Torigni app. p. 334; c1219 confirmamus ‥ de dono R. ‥ ~um terre juxta horreum (Ch.) MonA VI 153b.  c c1270 si quid restat de morsellis / caesi panni sive pellis Pol. Songs 53.

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