rim-burst(en, a. and n. Sc. (and north.).
Also 6 rymbirst; rum-bursin, -burssan, 6, 9 rimbursin.
[f. rim n.2 + pa. pple. of burst v.]
a. adj. Ruptured; (cf. burst ppl. a. 2). b. n. Rupture, hernia.
| c 1500 Rowlis Cursing 58 in Laing Anc. Poet. Scotl. 212 Rim bursin, rippillis, or belly thra. 1505 Accs. Ld. High Treas. Scot. III. 156 The lech that helit frer Johne Litstair of rymbirst. 1558 in Pitcairn Crim. Trials I. 404 Allegis that he is nocht able of his body, and is rumbursin. 1597 Lowe Chirurg. (1634) 246 Portraiture of a man Rim-burst. 1673 Wedderburn Voc. 19 (Jam.), Hernia, a rim-burst. 1808 Jamieson, Rimbursin, a rupture of the abdominal muscles; in consequence of which the belly sometimes bursts. 1829 in Brockett N.C. Gloss. (ed. 2) 248. |
Hence † rim-burstenness. Obs.
| a 1575 Diurn. Occurr. (Bann. Cl.) 321 James erle of Mortoun regent lay deidlie seik of rumburssanes. 1673 Wedderburn Voc. 47 (Jam.), Ramex, rimburstenness. |