E. J. S.

_Eisell_ (Vol. iii., p. 397.).--The following illustration of this word

occurs in a MS. (Dd. i. fol. 7.) belonging to the University of

Cambridge. The date is about 1350:

"þe iewis herde þis word wel alle,

And anon _eysel_ þei mengid wiþ galle."

It is here manifestly = _vinegar_.

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