symeryng
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Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]symeryng
- a gleam or glimmer
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Reues Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, column 1, lines 441–444:
- And by the wall ſhe found a ſtaffe anon / Ans ſawe a litell ſymeryng of a light / For at an hole in ſhone the Moone bright
- She found a staff against the wall, thereupon; / And then she saw a little gleam of light / For through a hole the moon was shining bright