GLOSSARY. 



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]>ymele — cont. 

 According to the present nsage of those 

 who speak rural Englisli, tlie hop is the 

 fructification of the female plant, and 

 the plant itself has no name but hop 

 plant. It is quite incorrect according 

 to the country folk to speak of the plant 

 as the hop. No such name as Humble 

 seems to be known. 



The contrasted )>esehymele, hedge- 

 liumble, affords presumption that there 

 was a cultivated kind, and other proofs 

 exist that the Saxons grew this plant. 



)>ynu'lo, liop trefoil, trifolium procumhevs. 

 In Hb. Hi. we had a problem to solve ; 

 polytrichura was hair moss, and hymele 

 v/as hop, and yet the two plants must be 

 the same. The trefoil leaves of poly- 

 trichum in MS. G. suggested a solution ; 

 it is hoped the right one. The text in 

 Hb. lii. speaks plainly of hair moss ; 

 but the drawing in the MS. has nothing 

 of the sort ; in this difficulty the in- 

 terpreter solved not the Hellenic word, 

 but the drawing, and named it hymele ; 

 as it has no resemblance to the hop, nor 

 to geum rivale. Jordhumle in Swedish 

 is trifolium agrarium (Nemnich). The 

 name Humble was not confined to the 

 hop, see yelbpypc ; and in Islandic Val- 

 humall is achillea millefolium. (Olaf 

 Olafsens Urtagards Bok, p. 88.) 



)>mbhajlehe,-heolot>e, -an, water agrimony, 

 Uvericort, Eiipatoriun cannabinum. 

 " Ambrosia." Hb. Ixiii. 7 ; so Lacn. 

 G9. Gl. Sloane, 146. Our gU. make 

 this ambrosia maior to be widely dis- 

 tinguished from chenopodium botrys, 

 which is also ambrosia, but not an 

 English plant. Hindheal is Hirsch- 

 wundkraut in Germ. " stag-wound-wort." 

 " Eupatorium lilifagus \_understand 

 " eK(\ia<paKos'\, ambrosia maior, wyldo 

 " sauge, hyndhale," Gl, Harl. 3388. 

 " Ambrosia, hindhelethe," Gl. Dun, 

 " Ambrose . salgia agrestis [read salvia'], 

 " lilifagus . eupatorium . idem," Gl. 

 Rawl. c. 607. So Gl. M. " Hintloipha, 



l^mbhaelejje — cont. 

 " ambrosia," Gl. Hoff. " Euperatorium, 

 " ambrose, is an erbe that som men 

 " calliJ5 wilde sauge oher wode nierche 

 " oher hyndale," Gl. Sloane, .'), fol. 15 a. 

 Similarly Gl. M. 



2. Sanicle, Sanicuki. Europcca, as 

 above ; the plants have very similar 

 foliation. 



'Nypbejjyjifc, fem., gen. -e, herd- (shep- 

 herd) wort, Ert/thrcEU centaureiun, Lb, 

 II, viii., etc. 



ill)', gen. -es, neut., hue, complexion, color. 

 lib. cxli. 2. Horn. II. 390. Ilj'y ly 'Sir 

 Isclb abeojicab . "j ^sec ae'Selefre hieji h]iy 

 ]'ea]V5 hic onhpojijen, P.A. 26 a, WIty is 

 this gold darkened, and why is its noble 

 colour changed ? Lamentations iv. \. 

 See N. p. 7L Ai5a|. 58. 



IMt'omoce, )>leomoc, fem. gen., -an ; brooh- 

 lime (where lime is the Saxon name in 

 decay), Veronica beccabnnga, with V. 

 anagallis. Lb. I. ii. 22. " It waxeth in 

 " brooks," Lb. I. xxxviii. 4. Both sorts 

 Lcmmike, Dansk. They were the greater 

 and the less " brokelemke," Gl. Bodley, 

 536, " Fabaria domestica . i . lemeke. 

 " Fabaria agrestis similis est nasturtio 

 " aquatico et habet florem indum \_hluc'] . 

 " i . fauerole et crescit iuxta aquas," Gl. 

 liawl. c. 607. In those words the v. 

 anagallis is described. The following 

 agree more or less, Gl. in Lye ; Gl. 

 Dun. ; Gl. Cleop. ; Gl. Harl. 978 ; 

 Gl. Harl. 3388 ; Gl. Mone, p. 288 a, 27: 

 read lemicke ; Islandic, Lemiki. 



IMyjT, masc, gen. -c)-, hearing ; masc. 

 DD, 41, xlvi. Lb. L iii. 7 ; Horn, IL 

 374 ; also fem., gen. -e, Lb. I. iii., con- 

 tents ; and in old Dansk, 



IMurro]! bpenc, masc, gen. -es, " clear 

 " drink," claret, made of wine, honey, 

 aromatic herbs, and spices. " Accipe 

 " ergo hirtzunge [^harlstongue] et eam 

 " in vino fortiter coque, et tunc purum 

 " mel adde, et ita iterum; tuncfac semel 

 " fervere, deinde longum piper et bis 

 " tantum cynamomi pulverisa, et ita 



