Teart

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teart

adj. Tart, sharp (of pain, punishment, etc.), severe; acer, asper :-- Sticol oððe teart asper, Wulck. Gl. 256, 32. Ús ðincþ swíðe teart wíte ðæt án úre fingra on fýr becume, Homl. Th. ii. 590, 32. Ðæt hé ne ðurfe becuman tó ðam teartum bryne, 592, 17. Hé álýsþ mé fram teartum worde (a uerbo aspero), Ps. Lamb. 90, 3. Beó him gesǽd ða teartan wítu, Homl. Th. ii. 344, 32: Homl. Skt. i. 11, 82. Mid teartum wítum getintregod, 8, 156. Mid teartum swingellum acribus uerberibus, R. Ben. 54, 4. Mislimp tearte casus asperos, Hymn. Surt. 16, 5. Teartere þrǽlung acrior correptio, R. Ben. Interl. 59, 6. Hine man þreáge mid teartran steóre, R. Ben. 52, 6. Hé stíðran and teartran steóre underló majori uindicte subjaceat, 71, 8. [Chaucer uses tart = sharp to the taste :-- Poudre-marchaunt tart, Prol. 381.] teart