Obs. Also curtell(e, -tle, -til, -tyl(l. [ME. southern form of KIRTLE.]
1. = KIRTLE q.v.
2. Used by Trevisa to translate L. tunica, as a coat of an artery, and of the eye, and retained in this sense in the later versions of Bartholomew.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., III. xvii. (Tollem. MS.). Þe smale curtyles and humouris of þe ye. Ibid., IV. vii. Þe harde curtels of þe arteries. Ibid., XVII. lxxv. It is defendid … as it were with many curtils and cotes [pluribus tuniculis].
1582. Batman, On Barthol., V. iv. 38. The eye is made of tenne things. Of seauen smal curtils, and three humours.
