† uvule Obs.
Also 6 vuels.
[a. older F. uvule (also OF. uvele, huvele), or ad. med.L. ūvula uvula.]
1. Anat. = uvula 1.
| c 1530 Judic. Urines ii. vii. 30 A sekenes y{supt} is called..casus vuule, y{supt} is no more for to say but sekenes of vuule. 1547 Boorde Brev. Health xxvi. 16 Metyng with reume at the vuels in the rough [= roof] of the mouth. Ibid. ccclxxviii. 121 In Englyshe it is named vuels the whiche doth lye in the roufe of the mouthe lyke lytle longe teetes. |
2. (See quot.) rare—1.
| 1589 J. Banister Antidotary (1633) 87 A Gargarisme for them that be roofe-fallen, commonly called the Vvule. |