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▪ I. † tay, tey Obs.
Also 5 teye, 6 taie, 6–7 taye.
[In 5 teye, a. obs. F. teie, in Palsgr. taye (in senses 2, 3):—L. t(h)ēca:—Gr. θήκη case, covering, sheath.]
1. A case, sheath, outer covering.
c1440Promp. Parv. 487/2 Teye, of a cofyr or forcer, teca, thecarium.
2. A web or cataract in the eye.
1547Recorde Judic. Ur. 59 b, It healeth creythys, and also the webbe and the tey in the eye. 1597Lowe Chirurg. (1634) 31 Some cataract or taye which covereth the prunall called the windowe of the eye. Ibid. 166 The Cataract or tey.
3. The outer membrane of the brain. [Cf. F. teie dure = dura mater.] Also taken as ‘skull’, and ‘brain’.
a1568‘My wofull Hairt’, etc. 44 in Bannatyne Poems (Hunter Cl.) 83 Vpoun my heid thay thrang a croun of thorn,..The thorne pykis thay to my tay dang doun. c1580J. Jeffere Bugbears i. i. in Archiv Stud. Neu. Spr. (1897) XCVIII. 306 In stide of taies, he hathe bugbeares in his head.
▪ II. tay
obs. or dial. f. tea, thee, tie, toe; obs. form of they after a dental.
▪ III. tay, taye
variants of tael. |