GLOSSARY. 



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Lcac — cont. 



Cjiapleac, crow garlic, allium ursinum, 

 or viaeale, vol. I. p. 37 G. " Centum ca- 

 " pita, asfodillus, ramese, crowe garlek," 

 Gl. IJawl. c. 506. 



Cjiopleac, allium sativum. A gl. gives 

 " serpyllum," but that is an inadmis- 

 sible tale, for cjiop means hunch, as of 

 berries, and leac means leek ; we must 

 therefore make our choice among asfo- 

 delaceous plants ; and as those -which 

 ansv.'er the description best are open to 

 objection, for allium ampeloprasum is 

 by far too rare, and allium vineale is 

 crowleek, we fix on a common foreign 

 but cultivated species. Lb. I. ii. 13, 1.5; 

 L iii. 11; L xxxix. 2; IIL Ixviii. The 

 German Knoblauch has the same sense, 

 and is this plant. 



Gajileac, aUiuia oleruceuiii ? Sec Lb. I. 

 ii. 10 ; IIL Ix. Ixi. 



Ilolleac, •' hollow wort," fumuria hnl- 

 /w.w, the" radix cava" of the herborists; 

 Runde Hohlwurzel, Germ. ; lluulroed, 

 Dansk ; Ilolwortel (Kilian) ; Iliillrot, 



Swed. Lacn. 23, 61. Lb. . It 



is not corydalis, the root of which is not 

 hollow. iSce English Botany, 1471. 



Secjleac, Lb. I. Iviii. I, Lacn. 37, i.s 

 of coui'se chive garlic, allium achtvnopra- 

 sum, the English and Hellenic names 

 having the same sense. 



Lcac cepse, fem., gen. -an. Lb. III. xv. 

 Erysimum alliaria is both leek and cress. 



Leah, gen. leage, fem., ley, lixivium. Quad, 

 ix. 14. Leechd.vol. I. p. 378. Lb. III. 

 xlvii. Lees, Gl- C 



Leaj>0)i, neut.? lather, spuma saponacea ; 

 see Lyt'jian, not fem. Lacn. 1. Islandic 

 Lii'Sr, neut. lather. Cf Lyhjian, Alyh- 

 ]ian. St. Marharete. 



Leajjojijiyjic, fem., gen. -e, lather wort, soap- 

 ivort, saponaria officinalis. " Borith 

 " herba fuUonum, lea'Sojii'yjir," Gl. 

 Cleop. The plant yields lather freely. 

 Lb. L iii. 11. 



Leonyot, masc, gen. -e)% lion foot, alche- 

 milla vulgaris, Hb. viii. This name is 



Leonyor — cont. 



foreign, and a translation of Aeoi'TOTniSio;' 

 in Dioskorides. Leontopodion is alche- 

 milla vulgaris in Dorsten, in Lyte, in 

 Dansk; " Alchemilla vulgo appellatur et 

 " pes leonis," Csesalpinus xiv. 249. Sib- 

 thorp says, alchemilla alpina is to this 

 day called Asovtoit6^lov. Sprengel says, 

 that the Leontopodium of Dioscorides 

 is " Gnafalium leontopodium," and the 

 figures in V. G. T. Bodley, 130 (Ixii.) 

 agree. 



Lib, lyb, neut.? something medicinal and 

 potent, a harmful or powerful drug, 

 (pdpfj.aKov. Cf. lib-lac, sorcery; oxna- 

 hb, " medicine of oxen," black liclleborc ; 

 hbcopn, cathartic g7-a ins. "Luppi, neut. 

 " venenum, succus lethiferus, etc.," Graff. 

 Ougluppi, eye lib, collyrium, eye salve, id. 

 Goluppeten pfil, veneyiata sagitta, Gl. 

 Schilter. " Coagulum, lap," a gl. in 

 Mone, p. 287 a. Congula, cji'libbu, Gl. 

 Prud. 141 a, as {? Tvpo(papjxaKov ; it is tlic 

 runnet to turn milk to curd. 



Libcojm, neut, gen. -ay, n grain of 

 purgative effect, especially the seeds of 

 various euforhias, probably also the seeds 

 of some of the gourds, as momordica elatc- 

 rixim, cucumis colocynthis. Lb. I. ii. 22; 

 IL Iii. 1, 2, 3. 



Carthamo, also citocasia, also lacte- 

 rida, also catharticum, Gl. Dun. ; lacy- 

 ride, Gl. Brux. ; these are the milky 

 spurges. 



Lmi, mostly neut., but also fem., a limb, 



artus ; fem.. Lb. II. Ixiv. p. 288 ; fem. 



also in Islandic. Cf. Lb. I. xxv. 2, xxvii. 



1, xxxi. 7, Ixxiii.; III. xxxvii. 

 Lmiunj, fem., gen. -e, an attachment, car- 



tilago. Lb. II. xxxvi. 

 Lie), neuter and masc.,yo//(^, articulus. Lb. 



I. Ixi. 1 ; II. xxxvi. In old Dansk, 



Li^V, masc. 

 Li'5, drink, gen. -es, neut. Lb. I. xix. 



Boet. 110, 33. eye "Sa him ^'a;r liiS 



Jefcipeb paj)-, P.A. 5.5 a, 2r//e/? the drink 



was gone from him. 



