Breóst

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

breóst

Add; [The word occurs of all three genders, and can be used in the plural (dual) when a single person is referred to.] I. the front of the chest :-- Mid gildenum girdle his breóst wæs befangen . . . hē silf wæs begird æt his hālgum breóste (praecinctus ad mamillas zona aurea, Rehabebant loricas, Rev. 9, 9), Wlfst. 200, 12. Hē hlinode ofer dæs Hǣlendes breóstum (onufa breóst supra pectus, L. R.), Jn. 13, 25. Þæs lāreówes scōh hē āsette on dā breóst (pectus) þæs deádan līchama. . . Gr. D. 19, 12. II. the chest, thorax :-- Breóst thorax, Wrt. Voc. i. 65, 6 ; 283, 27 : pectus, 28. On iugode bid se līchama þeónde on strangum breóste, Hml. Th. i. 614, 11. III. the stomach, womb :-- Breóst crassum (ventrem, v. l.), Lch. i. lxx, i. Wiþ innoþes sāre and þǣra breósta (or under IV?), Lch. i. 182, 21. Þis ofet is swā swēte, blīd on breóstum (bonum ad vescendum), Gen. 656. On þām hālgan breóstum hē eardode nigon mōnaþ, Bl. H. 105, 16. IV. a breast; mamma, mamilla :-- Hē hēt hī gewrīdan on dām breóste, and hēt siddan of āceorfan. Heó him cwæd tō: ' Ne sceamode þē tō ceorfanne ꝥ ꝥ dū sylf suce, ac ic habbe mīne breóst on mīnre sāwle ansunde '. . . Heó beseah tō hyre breóste and wæs ꝥ corfene breóst geedstadelod, Hml. S. 8, 122, 146. Þurh þæt swīdre breóst, Sal. K. 204, 25. Underneodan oþer breóst sub mamma. Ors. 3, 9 ; S. 134, 23. Sceal mon þis wrītan and dōn þās word on þā winstran breóst, Lch. ii. 140, 27. Breóstum pipillis, papillis, Wrt. Voc. ii. 94, 54. Brióst mamillas, Lch. i. lxxii, 2. V. breast as seat of feeling, &c. :-- Hū mycel se camp wæs in þæs mannes breóste . . . Seó ārfæstnys oferswȳdde þone strangan breóst, fordon nǣre se breóst oferfunden, gif hine seó ārfæstnes ne oferswȳdde, Gr. D. 18, 2-22. Þurh þone hālegan breósd ūres fæder, 2, 19. His breósd sién simle onhielde for ārfæstnesse tō forgiefnesse per pietatis viscera citius ad ignoscendum flectitur, Past. 61, 12. v. ang-breóst. breost

Parole correlate: l, 13), Ll. Th. ii. 370, 4-7. Oþ mannes breóst (cf. swyran, Shrn. 81, 13) heah, Bl. H. 127, 6. Cumad deór . . . , and heora breósta beód mid byrnum befangene (