† muliery, a. and n. Obs.
Forms: 4 moillerie, -ye, mulerie, 6 mulyery, malary.
[ad. AF. mulieré, moilleré: see mulier a.]
a. adj. = mulier a. (also quasi-adv.). b. n. Legitimate offspring collectively.
| 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xvi. 219 Ne matrimoigne with-oute moillerye is nouȝt moche to preyse. c 1472–3 Fortescue Wks. (1869) 528 Buth not all the heires of Edmonde..though he hadd be muliery,..barred for evermore..? 1529 Rastell Pastyme Hist. Norm. (1811) 85 The child that was son to Robert and mulyery gotten. 1572 Schoole Ho. Women A iij b, Be it malary borne or base. |