† eresopn.
Obsolete.
Apparently = Ear-wax: see quots.
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c1225 John de Garlande in Wright Vocab. 121 Duo cornua, quibus vicine sunt aures, per quas colera expurgatur.]
c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 676 Hec colera, the ersope.
a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 676 (note) Colera, arwax.]
?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 748 Hec colera [MS. tolera], a eresope.
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