† oeps Obs.
[a. AF. oeps (earlier oes, Britton) = OF. oes, ous, ues, wes, eus, ops, oups, oeps, oefs, etc., work, need, use, benefit, profit:—L. opus work, use (for), need (of).]
Use, benefit, profit.
| [1292 Britton i. xxii. §2 Et ausi soit enquis de toutes lour prises a noster oes, et a lour. 1383 Act 7 Rich. II, c. 12 Soit il a son propre oeps ou al oepz dautre.] |
| 1428 Surtees Misc. (1888) 3 To be raysed..to þe oeps of our soverayne lorde þe kyng. Ibid. 5 To þe oeps and profet of þe cite. 1429 Rolls of Parlt. IV. 349/2 Which peynes shall be areisid to the Kyngis oeps. 1436 Ibid. 501/2 Thoo enhabitauntz..that..have estat to her owen oeps, or thoo to whos oeps othre persones have estat. |