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† menstrue Obs.
Also 5 menstrewe, 6 menstrew.
[a. F. menstrue, ad. L. mēnstruum: see menstruum.]
1. The catamenia; = menstruum 1.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 55 A womman in tyme of menstrue [v.r. menstrewe]. c1440Wyclif's Isa. lxiv. 6 Menstrue, or unclene blood. 1550Bale Apol. 57 b, Our vniuersall ryghteousnesses are afore God as clothes stayned with menstrue. 1674–7Molins Anat. Obs. (1896) 11 A Servant Maid with a suppression of the Menstrue.
attrib.c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 21 Þe fleisch & þe fatnes is mad of menstrue blood.
b. pl. In the same sense.
1579Langham Gard. Health (1633) 22 Anoint the breast to purge vpward, and the nauill to purge downward, and three fingers lower to prouoke menstrews. 1590P. Barrough Meth. Phisick liii. 185 Of stopping of menstruis. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. i. 2 These symptoms had happened..at the time when she us'd to have her Menstrues.
2. = menstruum 2.
1471Ripley Comp. Alch. Pref., in Ashm. (1652) 124 Raymond his Menstrues doth them call. 1605Timme Quersit. i. xiii. 61 The heauenly menstrueese to dispoyle metalls of their colours and sulphures naturall is this [etc.]. 1610B. Jonson Alch. ii. iii, Are you sure, you loos'd 'hem I' their owne menstrue? 1664Evelyn Sylva (1679) 6 They flatter their hopes..with fructifying liquors, Chymical Menstrues and such vast conceptions. |