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GLOSSARY.
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Lcac
cont.
Cjiapleac, crow garlic, allium
ursinum,
or viaeale, vol. I. p. 37 G. " Centum ca-
" pita, asfodillus, ramese, crowe garlek,"
Gl. IJawl. c. 506.
Cjiopleac, allium sativum. A gl. gives
" serpyllum," but that is an inadmissible
tale, for cjiop means hunch, as of
berries, and leac means leek ; we must
therefore make our choice among asfodelaceous
plants ; and as those -which
ansv.'er the description best are open to
objection, for allium ampeloprasum is
by far too rare, and allium vineale is
crowleek, we fix on a common foreign
but cultivated species. Lb. I. ii. 13, 1.5;
L iii. 11; L xxxix. 2; IIL Ixviii. The
German Knoblauch has the same sense,
and is this plant.
Gajileac, aUiuia oleruceuiii Sec Lb. I.
ii. 10 ; IIL Ix. Ixi.
Ilolleac, •' hollow wort," fumuria hnl-
/w.w, the" radix cava" of the herborists;
Runde Hohlwurzel, Germ. ; lluulroed,
Dansk ; Ilolwortel (Kilian) ;
Iliillrot,
Swed. Lacn. 23, 61. Lb. . It
is not corydalis, the root of which is not
hollow. iSce English Botany, 1471.
Secjleac, Lb. I. Iviii. I, Lacn. 37, i.s
of coui'se chive garlic, allium achtvnoprasum,
the English and Hellenic names
having the same sense.
Lcac cepse, fem., gen. -an. Lb. III. xv.
Erysimum alliaria is both leek and cress.
Leah, gen. leage, fem., ley, lixivium. Quad,
ix. 14. Leechd.vol. I. p. 378. Lb. III.
xlvii. Lees, Gl- C
Leaj>0)i, neut. lather, spuma saponacea ;
see Lyt'jian, not fem. Lacn. 1.
Islandic
Lii'Sr, neut. lather. Cf Lyhjian, Alyh-
]ian.
St. Marharete.
Leajjojijiyjic, fem., gen. -e, lather wort, soapivort,
saponaria officinalis. " Borith
" herba fuUonum, lea'Sojii'yjir," Gl.
Cleop. The plant yields lather freely.
Lb. L iii. 11.
Leonyot, masc, gen. -e)% lion foot, alchemilla
vulgaris, Hb. viii. This name is
Leonyor
cont.
foreign, and a translation of Aeoi'TOTniSio;'
in Dioskorides. Leontopodion is alchemilla
vulgaris in Dorsten, in Lyte, in
Dansk; " Alchemilla vulgo appellatur et
" pes leonis," Csesalpinus xiv. 249. Sibthorp
says, alchemilla alpina is to this
day called Asovtoit6^lov.
Sprengel says,
that the Leontopodium of Dioscorides
is " Gnafalium leontopodium," and the
figures in V. G. T. Bodley, 130 (Ixii.)
agree.
Lib, lyb, neut. something medicinal and
potent, a harmful or powerful drug,
(pdpfj.aKov. Cf. lib-lac, sorcery; oxnahb,
" medicine of oxen," black liclleborc ;
hbcopn, cathartic g7-a ins. "Luppi, neut.
" venenum, succus lethiferus, etc.," Graff.
Ougluppi, eye lib, collyrium, eye salve, id.
Goluppeten pfil, veneyiata sagitta, Gl.
Schilter. " Coagulum, lap," a gl. in
Mone, p. 287 a. Congula, cji'libbu, Gl.
Prud. 141 a, as { Tvpo(papjxaKov ;
it is tlic
runnet to turn milk to curd.
Libcojm, neut, gen. -ay, n grain of
purgative effect, especially the seeds of
various euforhias, probably also the seeds
of some of the gourds, as momordica elatcrixim,
cucumis colocynthis. Lb. I. ii. 22;
IL Iii. 1, 2, 3.
Carthamo, also citocasia, also lacterida,
also catharticum, Gl. Dun. ; lacyride,
Gl. Brux. ; these are the milky
spurges.
Lmi, mostly neut., but also fem., a limb,
artus ; fem.. Lb. II. Ixiv. p. 288 ; fem.
also in Islandic. Cf. Lb. I. xxv. 2, xxvii.
1, xxxi. 7, Ixxiii.; III. xxxvii.
Lmiunj, fem., gen. -e, an attachment, cartilago.
Lb. II. xxxvi.
Lie), neuter and masc.,yo//(^, articulus. Lb.
I. Ixi. 1 ; II. xxxvi. In old Dansk,
Li^V, masc.
Li'5, drink, gen. -es, neut. Lb. I. xix.
Boet. 110, 33. eye "Sa him ^'a;r liiS
Jefcipeb paj)-, P.A. 5.5 a, 2r//e/ the drink
was gone from him.