Cornmuse (f)
(with) definite article: laSpelling in »The Edinburgh encyclopædia«, conducted by David Brewster, Volume III (Edinburgh, M.DCCC.XXX [1830]), in which the author refers to Chaucer, adding the quotation "Cornmuse and shalmes, many a floyte and lytlyngehorne"; NB¹: In »A glossary and etymological dictionary of obsolete and uncommon words« (London, 1832), William Toone refers to Chaucer’s “Book of fame” [sic] (i.e. the poem »House of fame«, 1379-1380), with the quotation “That made loud minstrelsies / In cornmuse and shalmies", but in several, more recent, editions this reads as "That maden loude menstralcyes / In cornemuse [sic] and shalmeyes", which seems to be Chaucer's original spelling; NB²: ➺ Also »Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language«, 1913; NB³: Galfridus refers to a Dr. Burney, who observes that "the cornmuse was the name of a horn or cornish pipe, blown like our bapipe.".
Utriculus, nuova serie XVI (54), II semestre 2017, Miscellanea zampognara, p.77-79: “The chaunter” (➺ p.78: »Brewster).
Galfridus (Grammaticus): Promptorium parvulorum sive clericorum: Lexicon anglo-latinum princeps, tomus prior. Londini, MDCCCXLIII [i.e. in London, 1843], p.93.