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410 GLOSSARY.
J7ebe, mad, furious, phreniticus, indeclinable
in Hb. i. 25, in contents see var.
lect. ii. 21, contents iv. 10, xxxvii. 5, etc.
Lb. I. Ixix.
]7esb]i8ebe, fera., gen. -an, properly " way-
" broad," but called waybread; 1. Plantago
maior; 2. )-eo pupe pegbjiBebe,
plantago media, it it hoary, hirsute,
lib. ii..
Lb. n. Ixv., etc.
]7en5e, j^sense, f anje, neut, gen. -an,
cheek, Lucca; Matth. v. 39 ;
Luke v. 29 ;
Lb. L i. 8, 10 ; III. xlvii. ; Horn. IL 180.
And him 'Sa pongan bjiice'S, S.S. 140.
j7cnn, ]7en, a wen, masc, pi. pennas. Lb.
I. Iviii, ; III. XXX. ; Lacn. 12.
J7enpy]ic, fem., gen. -e ;
" wenwort," is of
sorts:—1. cluphc, or cloved ; Lb. I. Iviii.,
II. Ii. 3. 2. cneoehce, kneed ; id. I. Ixvi.
Wenwort must be so called from curing
wens ; for wens are good, says Salmon,
" Alexander, Archangel, Asarabacca,
" Celandine, Chickweed, Coriander,
" Crow foot, Cresses, Darnel, Endive,
" Figwort, Laser wort, Lentils, Melilot,
" Purslane, Thorowwax, Turnsole,
" Wound wort." Among these, for 1,
Eununculus ucris, as crow foot, Eanunculus
Jicaria, as the lesser celandine, and
for 2, Darnel, Lolium temulentum, are the
most likely.
j7ejimob, gen. -es, masc, wormwood, Artemisia
absinthium. Lb. II. xxii., Ixv. 5 ;
III. iii.
2, xxxi.
Se ]ula j'ejxmob, Anthemis coiula Lb.
III. viii.
]7ice, imjch elm, Ulmus mordana, occ. Lb. 1.
xxxvi. Declension and gender unascertained.
p'lpel, raasc, a beetle.
Lb. III. xviii.
To]ib]iij:el, Scarabaus stercorarius,
Linn. Geotrupes, others Lb. III. xviii.
feeds on and lays its eggs in dung.
}7ilbe (with final vowel), wild, silvestrisf
ilbe apra. Gl. K. 21. (Lye inexact),
pilbe bap. Gl. It. 20. (Lye inexact).
]7ilbe oxa. Gl. R. 19, which has also
pilbe cynnep hopp. 20. pilbe cyjijet.
It
^ilbe
cont.
Gl. E. 39, but pilb, 44. j7ilbe popig.
G1.R.41. Hpicpilbepinseapb.
G1.R.39.
J7ilbe laccuce. Gl. R. 44. (Lye inexact).
filbe neep. Gl. R. 42 and 44. (Lye
inexact), yilbe prngejib. Gl. R. 39.
J7ilbe pyp. Gl. R. 11. (Lye inexact).
To some of Lyes quotations are attached
no references. j7ilbbeo)i is a compound,
sometimes written pilbeop, and the genitive
plural is pilbbeopa. The separate
words are found Nan pilbe beoji. Hom.
I. 486. )>apa'S pilbe mob. S.S. 168,
line 755, where mob is neuter. Lib. I.
xxxvii. 2.
Probably more examples of
e dropped, than as above, may appear.
Pylpen or -ne gen. -e, a she wolf, lupa.
Quad. ix. 7. Germ. Wolfinn. Cf.
Mynecenu.
]7yllec8eppe, -cyjipe, fem., gen. -an, fenugreek,
Trigonellafcenum grcecum, from Gl.
Brux. Gl. Dun.
I^mbelpcjieaji, neut., gen. -ep, windle straw,
cynosurus cristalus. Lb. I. iii. 12.
Jamieson. Nemnich. The expression
" two edged " belongs perhaps to the
spike.
But Mylne (Indigenous Botany)
did, and the author of the name, Parkinson,
must have understood Agrostis
spica venti.
j7ypm, masc, gen, -ep, any creeping
thing,
ivorm, snake, dragon, mite, insect, acarus,
vermin. Lat. Vermis and Vermiculus.
So multipedae are " many foot wormes,"
in Hollands Plinius. The numerous
worms mentioned in the Saxon text are
not all lumbrici.
Anapyjim. See Ana.
]'^iinb]ij]Mn, hand worm, perhaps translating
Keipiai as if from Xelp. Keipiai
occurs as lumbrici lati in Actios, 492 e
Lb. I. 1.
" Teredo, urcius, surio, Gl. in
Lye. Surio, or Sirio, which is the name
of the itch mite in many European languages,
seems to me to be only Cirio
from x^'V > ^^^ ^t the same time an
error for Kfipia. The lumbricus latus is
l^ania solium or Bothriocefalos latus.