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GLOSSARY. 393
]>ymele cont.
According to the present nsage of those
who speak rural Englisli, tlie hop is the
fructification of the female plant, and
the plant itself has no name but hop
plant. It is quite incorrect according
to the country folk to speak of the plant
as the hop. No such name as Humble
seems to be known.
The contrasted )>esehymele, hedgeliumble,
affords presumption that there
was a cultivated kind, and other proofs
exist that the Saxons grew this plant.
)>ynu'lo, liop trefoil, trifolium procumhevs.
In Hb. Hi. we had a problem to solve ;
polytrichura was hair moss, and hymele
v/as hop, and yet the two plants must be
the same. The trefoil leaves of polytrichum
in MS. G. suggested a solution ;
it is hoped the right one. The text in
Hb. lii. speaks plainly of hair moss ;
but the drawing in the MS. has nothing
of the sort ; in this difficulty the interpreter
solved not the Hellenic word,
but the drawing, and named it hymele ;
as it has no resemblance to the hop, nor
to geum rivale. Jordhumle in Swedish
is trifolium agrarium (Nemnich). The
name Humble was not confined to the
hop, see yelbpypc ; and in Islandic Valhumall
is achillea millefolium. (Olaf
Olafsens Urtagards Bok, p. 88.)
)>mbhajlehe,-heolot>e, -an, water agrimony,
Uvericort, Eiipatoriun cannabinum.
" Ambrosia." Hb. Ixiii. 7 ; so Lacn.
G9. Gl. Sloane, 146. Our gU. make
this ambrosia maior to be widely distinguished
from chenopodium botrys,
which is also ambrosia, but not an
English plant. Hindheal is Hirschwundkraut
in Germ. " stag-wound-wort."
" Eupatorium lilifagus \_understand
" eK(\ialeomoc, fem. gen., -an ; broohlime
(where lime is the Saxon name in
decay), Veronica beccabnnga, with V.
anagallis. Lb. I. ii. 22. " It waxeth in
" brooks," Lb. I. xxxviii. 4. Both sorts
Lcmmike, Dansk. They were the greater
and the less " brokelemke," Gl. Bodley,
536, " Fabaria domestica . i . lemeke.
" Fabaria agrestis similis est nasturtio
" aquatico et habet florem indum \_hluc'] .
" i . fauerole et crescit iuxta aquas," Gl.
liawl. c. 607. In those words the v.
anagallis is described. The following
agree more or less, Gl. in Lye ; Gl.
Dun. ; Gl. Cleop. ; Gl. Harl. 978 ;
Gl. Harl. 3388 ; Gl. Mone, p. 288 a, 27:
read lemicke ; Islandic, Lemiki.
IMyjT, masc, gen. -c)-, hearing ; masc.
DD, 41, xlvi. Lb. L iii. 7 ; Horn, IL
374 ; also fem., gen. -e, Lb. I. iii., contents
; and in old Dansk,
IMurro]! bpenc, masc, gen. -es, " clear
" drink," claret, made of wine, honey,
aromatic herbs, and spices. " Accipe
" ergo hirtzunge [^harlstongue] et eam
" in vino fortiter coque, et tunc purum
" mel adde, et ita iterum; tuncfac semel
" fervere, deinde longum piper et bis
" tantum cynamomi pulverisa, et ita