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Acorn, n. Forms: accorn, ackorn(e, akcorn(e, acquorn; ac-, akhorne. [ME. acorn, achorn, etc. (14th c.), OE. æcern.] An acorn. ? c 1350 Reg. Neubotle 234.
Terram … que vocatur le accornhalch c1420 Wynt. i. 435.
Froyt and gyrs thai oysyd tyll ete, … Nwt, or appyl, or akhorne [C. ackorne, W. akcorne] 14.. Acts I. 324/2.
Gif copy of ackornys hapnis to be in the kingis forest 1490 Irland Mir. MS. 256 b.
The achorne is changit … in a gret ack tre 1513 Doug. xiii. vi. 222.
Thir akcorne swellyaris, the fat swyne a1568 Gyre-C. 35.
Scho bred of ane accorne 1549 Compl. 144/35.
There maist delegat refectione vas acquorns, … rutis & eirbis 1622-6 Bisset II. 51/31.
The bark, seid, or akcornis