† yemsel Chiefly Sc. Obs.
Forms: 3 ȝemsle, 4 ȝemsel, -sele, -sale, -seill, -schele, ȝeymseill, ȝeemsell, ȝhemsall, -sell, yhemsale, 4–5 ȝemsall, 5 ȝhemsayl, yhemselle.
[ad. ON. geymsla (f. geyma yeme v. + -sla = OE. -els), with assimilation to the native ȝeme yeme v.]
Keeping, care, charge, custody.
| c 1200 Ormin 5095 Ne segge icc þe nohht tatt te birrþ..All all se mikell ȝemsle, Þwerrt ut onn iwhillc oþerr mann Alls o þe sellfenn leggenn. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints i. (Petrus) 601 Þe quhilk gaff þame ine ȝemsale Of twa knychttis, þat war fell. Ibid. xii. (Mathias) 245 Cryste gef it hyme ay in ȝemsele, Þo he wes thefe & ay wald steyle. 1375 Barbour Bruce xi. 329, I trow he sall..Do his dewour, and virk so weill, That hym sall neyd no mair ȝeymseill [MS. E. ȝemseill]. a 1400 Leges Burgorum c. 3 in Acts Parl. Scot. (1844) I. 333/2 Bot gif..he [sc. ane uplandis man] war in þe kyngis oste or in yhemsale of þe kyngis castell. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxvi. 4352 Keparis, þat it [sc. a castle] in ȝhemsayl [v.r. ȝemsall] hade. |