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398 GLOSSARY.
Li^" rypt, fem., gen. -e, lithewort, dwarf
elder, sambucus ebulus. Hb. xxix. This
is made Ostriago. See Pref. vol. I.
p. Ixxxv. : from the drawings, nothing
can be learnt. " Ostriago, lith vyrt.
" Chamedafne, leoth vyrt," Gl. Dun.,
read x"'M«'"f''''7> that is, ground elder.
" Ebulus, wall wort," in later hand" lyj^e
" wort," MS. Harl. 3388. In Hb. cxxvii.
lihpyjir is erifia, which is unknown, and
from the drawing probably nothing but
dwarf elder was understood. Viburnum
lantana was never known by this
name.
IJyt'pan to lather, spumam e sapone conficere,
aut ex quovis eiusmodi. Lyjjpe,
imperat, Lb. I. 1. 2. AlyJ^pe, Lb. I.
xxii. 2. AleJ^jie, Lb. I. liv.
Lit>ule, Lb , I. Ixi. 2. Somner said fistula,
which is a disease ; Lye, fistula, enema;
it has been translated in connexion with
the foregoing leechdoms, as if li'S-ele,
joijit oil, synovia.
Lonb abl, fem., gen. -e, nostalgia, Lb. II.
Ixv. 5.
Lunsenjiypc, fem., gen. -e, lungwort,
pulmonaria officinalis. Germ., Lungenwm'z;
Dansk, Lungurt; Swed. Lungort.
2. A sort mentioned, Lb. I. xxxviii. 4,
" yellow upwards," hieracium murorum
and pulmonarium, golden lung wort.
Liiscmoce, fem., gen. -an, not in the gll .,
possibly by corruption of syllables,
Ladys smock, cardamine pratensis. Lb.
I. xxxviii. 3. 10. A kind with a cropp
or bunchy head. Lb. I. xxxix. 2 ; I.
xxxviii. 3.
M.
CDiel, gen. -ej*, neut., measure. Orienfis
Mir. ix. Chron. p. 3.'54, line 31, anno
1085. Lb. L ii. 1 ; XL vii. " Circinum,
" maelranj;e," Gl. Somn. p. 65 b, 4, a pair
of compasses, measure tongs. Where
bajsmaslar is printed, the MS. has
dajsmael uf.
CDaj;e))e, CDagoJie, fem., gen. -an, maytlie,
Anthemis nohilis. 2. ]nlbe mase)>e,
maythe, Matricaria chamomilla. 3.
maytke, maythen, Anthemis cotula.
1. Chamasmelon is translated majehe,
lib. xxiv. " Camemelon, magethe,"
Gl. Dun. " Beneolentem," Gl. Brux.
p. 41 a, the distinctive mark of true
chamomille. " Chomomilla, megede
" blomen," a Gl. in Mone, 286 b.
2. ^ilbe mashe. Lb. II. xxii., xvild
maythe, must be Avild chamomille, for I
do not find that No. 3 was ever supposed
to possess medicinal properties; it is
therefore matricaria chamomilla.
3. The anthemis cotula is now called
maythen, the final being, to speak after
our grammars, derived from the termination
of the oblique cases ; country
folk say it may be always distinguished
from the true camomille by its bad
smell. The glossaries agree, " Camomilla
" i . camamille similis est amarusce \_read
" -ae] sed camomilla herba breuis est et
" redolens et amarusea i . maythe fetit "
[foetet], MS. Rawlinson,c. 707.
" Herba
" putida, mseS'Sa," Gl. Somn. p. 64 a,
line 11. "Mathers, May weed, Dogs
" cammomill. Stinking cammomill, and
" Dogfenel." Lyte (A.D. 1595).
Perhaps the Saxons included pyrcthrmn
parthenium. These plants are so
much alike that it requires much technicality
to distinguish them ; the artist
in MS. V. took the liberty of making
the flowers blue. Calmia, mayl^e, MS.
Sloane, 146, with i marked. " Culmia,
" magethe," Gl. Dun., whence correct
Somner. Gl. p. 66 [63] b, line 6.
Calmia
is calamine, ore of zinc, and these
glosses are blunders.
Reabe ma5e]>e, anthemis tinctoria.
I. Ixiv.
Lb.
White maythe, pyrethrum inodorum.
" Bucstalmum \_read $ov(pda\/xoy'], hvit
" mcgethe," Gl. Dun. ;
jirintcd bucstalinum,
Gl. Brux. p. 41 a.