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tesquum

tesquum [CL], wilderness; b (applied to marshland or fen). provincialium tuto armenta vel greges pascebantur seu per campestria seu per ~a W. Poit. II 2 (= W. Poit. II 45); hoc tempe ‥ i. amenus locus in planitie, sicut tesqua dicuntur loca amena in silva: Horatius in epistolis ‘deserta et inhospita ~a’ Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 584; nam casus mutum pecus per nemorosa ~a ducebat W. Cant. Mir. Thom. III 24.  b Slepe est inter ~a prope Anglie, distans ab Huntedune castello ad iij leucas, et a Ramesseia per octo leucas Chr. Wallingf. 62; habeat autem ocreas, ne ~a [gl.: vasceus, waseus, de waseys] vel lutosas vel cenosas plateas expavescat Neckam Ut. 108; gor, or flory, limus ‥ ~a, -e, fem. PP 196; a wesche, ~um, in plurali ~a CathA.

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