GLOSSARY. 



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Hares lettuce — cont. 



" sowthestyU," MS. Bodley, 53G. Tlie 

 figures in MSS. V., G., A. are of no 

 account. 



Ilatian, translates graoari. Lb. II. xxv. 



]>a)>oh))e ? fem. ? declined in -an ; pro- 

 bably elbow joint. The word is com- 

 pounded of the syllable ha}>, which is 

 found in )>ea'5ejiian, cohihere (Boet. 

 xxxix. 5 ; Beda, iv. 27 ; C.E.p. 401, 17, 

 where the fac simile of the MS. reads 

 mec not me, p. 482, 5, and in Umbe- 

 hathlichiu, nexilis, in Graflf. iv. 805,) 

 and ofJA\>,ajoint; it signifies, therefore, 

 the nex'ile joint, or the fast tied joint. 

 The patient was to be bled on it. The 

 fastest tied joint on which a patient can 

 well be bled is the elbow. Somner 

 conjectured, probably from knowledge of 

 the Latin, vena axillaris; that is the same 

 vein, t)\v iv ayKccvi, r^v virh /xaffX^^^Wj 

 says Trallianus (p. 127, ed. 1548). 



)>eahheale}>e, )ieahhiolo)>e, itiula helenium ; 

 See eh. Lb. I. xxxix. 2, etc. " Hiunula 

 " campana, ho'?^fellen," Gl. Laud, 567, 

 i.e., Horse Helenium. 



iJealebe, belly bursted, hertiiosus, Gl. Somn. 

 p. 71 b, 60. Hb. Ixxviii. 2, where ad 

 ramicem pneri, Lat. ; " Ponderosus," in 

 Lye, which means not " weighty," but 

 bursted; " Ponderosus, hernia laborans " 

 (verba improbata in Bailey) ; Haull, 

 masc, hernia (Islandic) ; i> cilb bilS 

 hoppobe T healebe (MS. Cott. Tiber. 

 A. iii. fol. 41), the child shall be hump- 

 backed and bursted. SH. 23. 



)>eal}:, neut., the half, dimidium, pars 

 dimidia. Lb. II. ii. 2. )>eal}:, side, 

 quarter is fem. 



Healy heapb, half head; JE.G. 14, line 24, 

 distinctly defines as the sinciput, the for- 

 ward half; (hoc sinciput), heal}: lieayob ; 

 hoc occiput, ]-e fcjxpa bsel i'sej' heaybej-. 



)>eal): pubu, masc, gen. -bej-, field balm, 

 calamintha nepeta, Lb. I. xlvii. 2. 



" jZidebalme . i . halue pude," Gl. 

 Harl. 978. This plant was placed by 

 Linnaeus as Melissa ; it is perennial. 



Dealm, neut., halm, calamus. Gabjiion 

 himj-ylfe -p healm. Exod. v. 7. Lb. 1. 

 Ixxii. 



Heap, Lb. I. ii. 21, austere. Cf Ileojio, 

 sword, C.E. 346, and its senses as a 

 prefix. 



HebcIaS, a coarse upper garment. Quad. iv. 

 1 7. " Heben, casla," gl. C, that is, a 

 chasuble. " Heben gunna," gl. C. gunny 

 cloth. Ne haibbe he on heben ne caeppan, 

 DD. 348, ix. Let him have oji neither 

 chasuble nor cope ; the English rite. Cf. 

 IleSinn, a kirtle or cape of skiii, in 

 Islandic. (Jonsson.) 



Deseclije, fem., gen. -an, hedge clivers, 

 cleavers, clivers, Galium wparme, Lb. I. ix. 



liej^epiye, gen. -an, fem. ? " hedgeruff," 

 '' hayreve," Galium aparine. " Rubia 

 " minor, HayreflF oJ>er aron \i-ead Ilay- 

 " renn ?] is like to wodruff, and \>q sed 

 " tuchid will honge in oneis cloj'is," 

 MS. Sloane, 5, fol. 29 a. " Rubia minor 

 " cleuer heyreue," Gl. Harl. 3388. Lb. 

 I, xxxii. 4; I. Ixiv. 



)>elbe, tansy, tanacetum vidgare, " Tana- 

 " ceta," Gl. Somn. p. 66 [63] b, 22. So 

 Gl. Jul., Gl. Dun., Gl. Harl. 978 (A.D. 

 1240); Tenedisse,Gl. Brux., also " Arti- 

 " mesia hilde," Gl. Dun., but the tansy 

 is generically akin to the mugwort. 

 Lb. L xxvi. Ai5a|. 58. 



l>emlic, gen. -e, also -an ; hemlock, co- 

 nium maculatum. Other plants may be 

 sometimes called hemlock, for the um- 

 bellate herbs require educated eyes, but 

 this is the starting point for English 

 notions. Cicuta virosa is water hem- 

 lock (Sir J. E. Smith) ; " Cicuta," 

 Gl. Somn. p. 64 a, 47, classically right, 

 though botanically wrong ; for it fol- 

 lows from Plinius, xxv. 95, that Kwveiuv 

 = cicuta. Ace. Hymlican. Lb. I. i. 6. 

 Has a masc. adj. Lacn. 71; dat. hym- 

 lice. Lb. I.lviii. 1. 



)>eopocbpembel, masc, gen. -ey, the buck- 

 thorn, rkamnus. " Ranno, Christs thorne, 

 " Harts thorne. Way thorne, Bucke 

 " thorne, or Rainberry thorne," Florio 



