fetare

fetare [CL] 1 to breed, be pregnant. b (trans.) to make pregnant. c (pr. ppl. as adj.) able to breed, fertile, (also as sb.) breeding animal, esp. ewe. de post ~antes, œfter þon tuddorfostre vel of þam siþborenum GlH D 208; c1258 avena ‥ dat[a] vaccis que ~abant, j quar. FormMan Shorwell; 1341 in liberacione unius garcionis custodientis hurtardos et hogastr’ separatos de ovibus matricibus dum fuerunt in ~ando MinAc 1120/11 r. 1d.; 1488 (v. 1 damma a).  b ave, virgo, quam sacravit, / fortunavit et fetavit / virtus Almi Pneumatis Walt. Wimb. Virgo 10; Id. Carm. 102 (v. docere 1c).  c in domibus mansueta nidificant, ova fetentia [l. fetantia] cuvant R. Cold. Cuthb. 27; 1281 remanent viij vacce, quarum due sunt ~antes et vij steriles MinAc 1089/19 m. 1; s1315 fecunditas et sterilitas telluris et ‥ aliorum ~antium singulorum in sola divinitatis potencia permanet G. Ed. II Bridl. 47; a schepe, ‥ bidens, ~ans CathA. 2 to teem, abound. Ebosus insula ‥ cujus terram serpentes fugiunt; huic Colubraria est contraria, num illa ~at cum anguibus [cf. Isid. Etym. XIV 6. 43: Colubraria ‥ quae feta est anguibus] Eul. Hist. II 119.