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been used as a specific or sovereign remedy in the cure of 

 rickets, a disease once known as the Taint. Threlkeld, 

 under Adiantum album, says : " It is one of the capillary 

 plants, and a specific against the Kickets. For this reason 

 our ancestors gave it the name of Tent-wort" 



Asplenium Ruta muraria, L. 



TETTER-BERRY, from its curing a cutaneous disease called 

 tetters, Bryonia dioica, L. 



TETTER-WORT, from its curing tetters, 



Chelidonium majns, L. 



TEYL-, TEIL-, TIL-, or TILLET-TREE, the lime, Fr. tille, 

 formerly spelt teille, a word now confined to the inner 

 bark or bast of the tree, and replaced with the dim. tilleul, 

 from M. Lat. tilliolus, dim. of tilia, Tilia europsea, L. 



THALE-CRESS, from a Dr. Thalius, who published a cata- 

 logue of the plants of the Hartz mountains, 



Arabis Thaliana, L. 



THAPE, see FEABE. 



THEVE-THORN, O.E. of Pr. Pm. thethorn, A.S. J>efe-, 

 pife-, or pyfe-porn, a word that occurs in Wycliffe's Bible, 

 in the fable of Jotham (Judg. ix. 14, 15), as a translation 

 of the L. rhamnus of the Vulgate, Heb. atad, the name 

 that Dioscorides, as cited by Bochart (i. 752), says that 

 the Carthaginians also called a large species of rhamnus. 

 It is unknown what bramble Wyclifie meant. T. Wright, 

 in his Manners of the Middle Ages, p. 296, takes it for the 

 Thape or gooseberry. The context requires a barren or 

 worthless brier, and the monks who commented upon 

 Mesues took it to be the dewberry : " Monachi qui in 

 Mesuem commentaries edidere, Rhamnum existimaverunt 

 rubum quendam, qui humi repens, incultisque proveniens, 

 mora cseruleo potius quam nigro colore profert." Matthioli 

 (1. i. c. 102). They probably followed an ecclesiastical 

 tradition, in fixing upon this particular bramble, as repre- 

 senting rhamnus. The word theve seems to be related to 



