

GLOSSARY, 



Ap 6m — conf. 



true reading may be ap 6m. The -word 

 copperas is commonly used for either the 

 green rust of copper, or the green vitriol 

 •with which the kitchenmaid cleans brass 

 pans; from its ambiguity it was con- 

 Yenient. Aei'ou points to the levigated 

 rust. 



Asaru, asarabacca, asarum Europceum. 

 Lb. II. xiv. Foles foot is Tussilago far- 

 fara. 



Asiftan, to sift. Lb. I. ii. 20. 



Aslawen, stnick, stricken, from a)-lean, for 

 f aj-lagan, a collateral form. Contents, 

 Lb. I. Ivi. =a)-lasen in text. So cnucan 

 becomes cnujmn, cnuan. 



Asprindlad, ripped tip and spanned open 

 with tenter hooks. Lb. II. xxiv. From 

 sprindel, tenticum, Gl. C, a tenter hook. 

 Cf. Spreisseln, Schmeller, Bayerisches 

 Worterbuch, IV. p. 593. 



Atpum, a Latin word, Smyrnium olusa- 

 trum. Lb. I. ii. 20, etc. 



Atcopla>e, gen. -an ; " venom-loather," 

 panicum cms galli. In Hb. xlv. arcop- 

 lajpe is galli crus, and were there doubt, 

 it seems removed by MSS. G. T. A., 

 which draw the p. sanyuinale, Linn., now 

 called digitaria sanguinalis. These two 

 grasses are included together in the 

 " cocksleg," hahnenbein of the Germans. 

 The corresponding article in MS. Bod- 

 ley, 130, gives the name sanguinaria, and 

 the old gloss is Blobwrt, with a later of 

 the 14th century, "Blodwerte." San- 

 guinaria is often glossed as shepherds 

 purse, thlaspi or capsella bursa pastoris, 

 or as tormeutilla, these being esteemed 

 stanchers of blood, or as polygonum ; 

 but in this instance it must be as above, 

 d. sanguinalis. With these testimonies 

 it is vain to consider how such virtue 

 was attributed to a grass. Did they 

 confuse panicum with panacea ? The 

 glossaries give no real help. "Atrilla, 

 " attorlathe," Gl. Dun., where atrilla 

 seems to be afctoplaj^e with a Latin ter- 

 mination. "Astrilla," Gl. Sloane, 146. 



Arcoplat>e — con t. 



" Cyclaminos, attorlathe," id., but cycla- 

 men is in Herbarium " slite." " Galli 

 " crus, attorlathe," id., a quotation from 

 our book. "Fenifiiga, attorlathe," id., un- 

 derstand venenifuga, a translation of the 

 Saxon word. "Venenifuga, arcepla^e," 

 Gl. Somner, p. 66 [63] b. 27. " Morella, 

 " atterloh-e,'' Gl. Harl. 978, but morella 

 is atropa belladonna, and poisonous itself. 

 Atejila^e, betonica, Lye, from a Gl. ; 

 but betony and attorlothe are separately 

 named in Lb. I. i. 15. The claims of 

 asclepias vincetoxicum are set aside by 

 its being a foreign plant. The heal all 

 of the old Dansk, Laukr, has no support 

 from our authorities. Lye prints, by 

 some error, sattorla^e also. The small 

 attorlothe occurs in Lb. I. xlv. 6. 



Aurugo is interpreted by Du Cange la 

 jaunisse, the jaundice. This rendering is 

 supported by the etymon aurum, goJd, 

 and by authority ; aurugo, color in auro, 

 sicut in pedibus accipitris, i . gelesouch, 

 Gl. E. vol. ii. p. 992 a, the colour one 

 sees in gold, as in a hawks feet, the 

 yellow sickness. Gelisuhtiger, ictericus, 

 auruginosus, Graff, vol. vi. col. 142. 

 Our text, however, interprets aurugo, as 

 a tugging or drawing of the sinews, Hb. 

 Perhaps this may be explained by ob- 

 serving that auriglnosus is glossed ar- 

 cuatus, Du Cange ; auruginosus, ar- 

 cuatus, Gl. Isid. Not very differently 

 from our text ; " Artuatus, j-ybmyole 

 " abl," Gl. K. p. 11, ult., read arcuatus 

 and it may be, geole, or muscle ; 

 whence it might well be supposed 

 that o-KLirddTovos was meant, a term ap- 

 plied to bows, bent back the opposite 

 way to their natural curvature, especially 

 true of horn bows, Gortynia cornua, and 

 to persons suffering under that extreme 

 form of tetanus, in which the feet and 

 head are drawn back till they touch. 

 Aurigo is also, in Apul. Ixxxvii., morbus 

 regius, which was another mediajval 

 name for the jaundice ; Graff, vol. vi.. 



