GLOSSARY. 





Dile — cont. 



Haej'en dile ; perhaps Achillea tomen- 

 tosa ; for Cotgrave explains Anet as 

 secondly, " little or yellow harrow," for 

 which I read yaiTow, the finely divided 

 leaves of which might obtain it this 

 name. 



Dylsta ? mucus ; pi. dylscan. Lb. I. 

 xxxi. 5. Cf. II. xxix. 



Dylstihc, mucous, slimij. Lb. I. xxix. 1. 



Dynige, it seems, an herb. Lb. III. viii. 

 \/^ Eead pynige ? 



DyJ'homaji, papyrus. GI. Somn. p. 64 a, 

 39. Lb, L xli. 



Docce, gen. -an, fern., dock, rumex ; 

 commonly H. obtusi/oHus, but often in 

 medicine for Supbocce. Lb. I. xxxviii. 9, 

 probably also R. pulcer, which is drawn 

 in MS. T. ; fern, in Gl. Cleop. fol. 71 c. 



Fallow dock. Lb. I. xhx. ; perhaps 

 Zi. maritimus, and H. palustris. 



Red dock. Lb. I. xlix. JR. sanguineus, 

 and perhaps for Sujibocce. 



The dock that will swun frequently 

 occurs. Lb. II. Ixv. 1 ; I. xxxvi ; also 

 the Ompre that will swim, which is the 

 same plant. Lb. III. xxvi. Gerarde 

 calls " swimming hei'be," duckesmeat = 

 D uckweed= Lemna, which is doubtful. 



Supbocce, sorrel, Rumex Acetosa is the 

 gl. in MS. T. Hb. art. xxxiv., and a bad 

 sorrel is drawn. 



The Saxons did not botanize on modern 

 principles, and it easily follows that 

 their genus Dock is not of the same reach 

 as the modem Rumex. Thus Ci'ousope, 

 which is Saponaria officinalis, is glossed 

 fomedok, Gl. Harl. 3388. The word 



\ " foam " shows that the writer knew his 

 plant, which he calls a dock. As in 

 this instance, and in Cammock whin, and 

 many others, similarity of leaves seems 

 to have been the chief guide to Saxon 

 nomenclature. I cannot therefore believe 

 that eabocce (spelt bocca) is Nymphsea, 

 GI. Somn. p. 64 a, 61. The word Nym- 

 phffia, like many others, must have been 

 misunderstood ; I therefore believe that. 



Docce — cont. 



Cabocce is the great water dock, rumex 

 aquaticus of Smith, and R. hydrolapa- 

 thum of Hudson. 



Dockenkraut in German is Arctium 

 lappa, and dockcresses are Lapsana 

 communis. 



Dolh, gen. -cs, mostly neuter, rarely masc, 

 wound, scar, vulnus, cicatrix. Hb. x. 3. 

 Lb. I. xxxi. 7, xxxviii. 9, 10; UI. xxxiii. 

 xxxiv. C.E. p. 68, 24, p. 89, 10. SyS- 

 '5an |-e dolh psej- geopenod. M.H. 93 b. 



Dolhjiune, gen. -an, fern.? pellitory, parie- 

 tartu officinalis. Hb. Ixxxiii., as perdi- 

 calis, which is the same herb ; Lb. often. 



Dopa, masc, gen. -an, the humble bee, bum- 

 ble bee, dumble dore, bombus generically. 

 The mediaeval glosses Burdo, Pucus, 

 Attacus, mean this insect or some nearly 

 allied. The commonest is Bombus ter- 

 restris, which stores honey. "Bourdon, 

 " a drone or dorr bee," Cotgrave. Lb. 

 often. 



Djiacentj-e, gen. -an, fem. ? Dragons, arum 

 dracunculus, Hb. xv. Dragons was a 

 name applied by English herbalists, 1. 

 to Polygo7ium bistorta, which is, I think, 

 the herb figured in the Latin Apuleius, 

 MS. Bodley, 130, as dracontea ; 2. to 

 ojioglossum vulgatum, Hb. art. vi. ; and 

 3. to arum maculatum. All these three 

 have a resemblance to a snakes erected 

 head and neck. The figure in MS. V., 

 art. XV. is intended for arum dracunculus, 

 and, this being so, it is impossible not to 

 concede the name. That plant is not of 

 English birth, but neither is the name. 



Djiacontjan, gum dragon; Lb. II. Ixiv. 

 contents. 



Dpige, bpyje, dry, siccus, aridus, Bed. 478, 

 14. Andreas, 1581. Lb. IL xlvi. (In 

 C.E. 426, 22, yorum bpije is y. bpigum). 



Dpmce, gen. -an, fem., a drink, potus. Lb. 

 I. li, 1. ; L xlii. Horn. IL 180. 



Dpopa, -an, masc, palsy of a limb. Lacn. 

 9. The Saxon interpreter was wide of 

 hi$ original in Hb. lix. 1, where "Ad 

 " hecmata intercidenda," in cxxiv. "tussi 



