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GLOSSARY. 399
CDape, Lb. I. xxxi. 7, perhaps potentiUa as
Mara, in Iceland now (Olaf Olafsens
Urtagards Bok) ; the cottony potentilla
will be silverweed, p. ariserina, with a/-
yen tea.
CDaj*c]'y)i!:, max-, fem., mashwort, the ivort
in the mash tub, Lacn. Ill, Lb. IL xxiv.
On the malt boiling water is poured,
and allowed to stand three quarters of
an hour ; the liquid is wort, or mashwort.
Braxivium atque bulita cum
braseonondum ccrevisia, vert ; a Belgic
Gl. in Mone, p. 304 a.
COeaiih, meajxj, masc. and neut., marrow
masc, old Dansk Margr, Lb. III. Ixx. ;
neut., Germ. Mark, Lb. I. ii. 22.
CDeajifC mea]i gealla, masc, gen. -an, belongs,
fi'om its bitterness implied in
" gall," to gentian aceous plants, and
from its habitat in marshes may be,
gentiana pneumonanthe. Lb. I. xxxix. 2
L 1. 2.
CDebo, gen, mebepej-, neut., inead.
Lb. II.
Hi. 1 ; II. liii. In old German, Mete,
and in old Danish, Mio'Sr, are masc.
Gen. Gl. Mone, p, 395 b.
CDcbojjypc, fem.,gen. -e ; 1. Meadow stveet,
spiraa vhnaria. " Regina prati, Germ,
" Wiesenkonigin ; Dansk, Miiidurt "
(Nemnich). " Melissa, medwort, regina
" prati." Gl, Harl, 3388, So Gl.
Bodley, 178. " Melletina," Gl. Somn.
63 b, 53. " Regina medpnrt," Gl, Harl.
978 (A,D. 1240), " Mellanna," Gl, Dun.
Lb. I. xxxviii, 10,
2. Melissa officinalis, balm. " Nas-
" tiirtium[h] ortolan [um] medwort," Gl.
Harl, 3388.
COen, masc. a part, a proportional part —
Swedish, Man, masc. apart. Lb, I. 1. 2.
The construction with a numeral admits
either a plural or a singular.
Meox, Meohs, neuter, muck, duny, fimus,
stercus. Dsec meox is J^sec gemynb
his yulan baeba, Hom, II. 408, The
dung of the parable is the memory of his
foul deeds.
ODepce, gen. -ej-, masc, inarclw, apium.
lib. xcvii., cxx, ; Gl, Somn. p. 04 a, 1 1
lib. cxxix.
Scan mepce, parsley,
Apium petrosclinum,
Gl. Brux,
p'ubu mepce, wood marche, sanicle,
Sanicula Europcea, a gloss in Lacn, 4,
also Gl. Laud. 553, fol, 18, Gl. Ilarl.
978, which was overlooked, so that note
9, p, 35, requires correction. It is a
suitable name. Lb, I. i. 15 ; I. xxxix.
2 ; I. Ixi. 2 ; III, ii. G.
CDej* = mifC, a mess, dung. Lb. I.
xxxviii, 11,
Mes, stercus, fimus (Kilian),
Micel lie, elephantiasis. Sona juijibon
'Su]ihylesene mib J^ajie able \>xy myclan
lice)-, G.D. 210 a. Soon were smitten
with " elephantinus morbus."
Mylsc or Mylsce inihl, milis. Lb,
I. xlii. ; II. xvi., p. 194. Gemilsceb,
Lb. II. xix. XX,
CDilce, masc, gen. -ej-, also -an, the milt,
the spleen.
Lb, JI. xxxvi. with gen.-ej* t
but gen, -an, Lacn. 110; Quad. ii. 8;
lib. xxxii, 6 ; and fem., Hb, xxxii.
6 ; Ivii. 1.
Mynec, neut., money, moneta. Bed. 532, 1.
Lb. II. XV,
CDmce, fem., gen, -an, mint, mentha.
Fenmmce, mentha silvestris. Lb, I,
iii, 2,
Ssemmce. Lb. I, xv. 4,
Tunmmce, mentha sativa. Lb. I. ii. 23,
CDij-cel, masc. basil. 1. Cfinopodium vnlgare.
In Hb. cxix., cxxxvii. eijuivalent
to &Kifiov, basil. " Ocimum, mistel," Gl.
Mone, p. 321 b, is a repetition not a
support. " Ocimus, mistel," Gl. Dun.,
another echo. "Mistil, basilice," MS.
Bodley, 130, on Ocimum : an independent
statement. CDijtel is a derivative
of CDijT, muck, and the
clinop. viilg.
is called in German, Kleiner dost, fi'om
Doste; old high g. Dosto, marjoram, and
that may be compared with Dost ccenum,
dirt. Cop^ mifcel, Lb. xxxvi., seems
to distinguish this from the mistletoe ;
a few lines lower is Acmifeel,
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