Tynder

f. I. tinder, fuel (lit. and fig.) :-- Tyndir (-er) napta, genus fomenti, Txts. 80, 685. Geswǽlud spoon vel tynder fomes, Wrt. Voc. i. 39, 21. Tynder fomes, i. incendium, astula minuta, ii. 150, 4. Tyndrin, tyndirm (-in?) isca (=esca fomes, Migue; cf. Span, yesca tinder), Txts. 72, 562. Tyndre isica, Wrt. Voc. i. 284, 21: isca, ii. 45, 74: fomentam (-um?), 40, 7. Tyndre gódes cynnes fomentum bone indolis, Scint. 206, 17. Tindre sica (l. isica or isca), Wrt. Voc. i. 66, 38. Wé habbaþ ðone mǽstan dǽl ðære tyndran ðínre hǽle ... nú ðú ne þearft ðe náuht ondrǽdan forðam ðe of ðam lytlan spearcan ðe ðú mid ðære tyndran gefénge lífes leóht ðé onliéhte habemus maximum tuae fomitem salutis ... nihil igitur pertimescas; jam tibi ex hac minima scintillula vitalis calor illuxerit, Bt. 5, 3; Fox 14, 9-14. Tyndri isica, Txts. 116, 179. Of gecyndelícre tyndran de ingenito fomite, Wrt. Voc. ii. 139, 65. Tyndre neptam, 114, 59. Tynder, 60, 9. Tyndrum fomitibus, 33, 61. Deóful ná gewilnunge tyndran onǽlþ diabolus non concupiscentiae fomenta succendit, Scint. 210, 3. II. a burner, an implement which burns :-- Mearcísern vel tynder cauterium, Wrt. Voc. ii. 129, 76. Tynder furnus, 149, 84. Tyndre cautere, Txts. 114, 100. Tund[e]ri, 111, 19. [He tinder nom and lette i þan nutescalen don and fur þer on brohte, Laym. 29267. Of ston mid stel in ðe tunder, Misc. 17, 535. Tondre, tunder, Piers P. 17, 245. Tundyr fungus, napta, Prompt. ParDu. tonder: O.H. Ger. zuntra; wk. f. fomes, isca: M.H. Ger. zunder; m. n.: Ger. zunder: Icel. tundr; n.: Dan. tønder: Swed. tunder. Cf. Goth. tundnan to be set on fire.]