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HOCK,) but the Holli is very difficult to explain. The most 

 probable origin of it is L. caulis, with the meaning of a 

 cale-j coley-, or cabbage-hock, and referring, as in cabbage- 

 rose, to its well-filled double flowers, or used in the sense 

 of stalk, and referring to its lofty habit, in contrast with 

 that of the lowly Hock-herb, or mallow. Cauli- or Coley- 

 hock would easily pass into Holly- and Holy-hock. 



Althaea rosea, L. and ficifolia, Cav. 

 HOLLOW-WORT, or HOLE-WORT, from its hollow root, 



Corydalis tuberosa, DC. 



HOLLY, or HOLM, on the Eastern Border called HOLLEN, 

 the old form of the word, and that from which holm has 

 been formed by the change of n to m, as Lime from Line ; 

 A.S. holen or holegn, a word derived from L. uleoc, which 

 in the middle ages was confused with ilex, the holm oak 

 of the ancients, whence the adjective uligna, and with the 

 aspirate, huligna and holegn. The form Holly will have 

 been the more readily adopted, and the tree have been 

 called in Anglo-Saxon times elebeam, or oil-tree, from its 

 branches having being used for olive branches, and strewed 

 before the image of Jesus, in certain solemnities of the 

 church that represented his entrance into Jerusalem. Thus 

 in Googe's Naogeorgus : 



"He is even the same, that, long agone, 



While in the streete he roade, 



The people mette, and olive bowes 



So thicke before him stroade." 



Ilex Aquifolium, L. 



KNEE-, Ruscus aculeatus, L. 



SEA-, Eryngium maritimum, L. 



HOLLY-, or HOLM-OAK, see HOLLY. Quercus Ilex, L. 

 HOLY GHOST, so called "for the angel-like properties 

 therein," says Parkinson, (Th. Bot. p. 941). " It is good 

 against poison, pestilent agues, and the pestilence itself," 

 says W. Turner (b. iii. 5.). Angelica sylvestris, L. 



