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GLOSSARY. 



Li^" rypt, fem., gen. -e, lithewort, dwarf 

 elder, sambucus ebulus. Hb. xxix. This 

 is made Ostriago. See Pref. vol. I. 

 p. Ixxxv. : from the drawings, nothing 

 can be learnt. " Ostriago, lith vyrt. 

 " Chamedafne, leoth vyrt," Gl. Dun., 

 read x"'M«'"f''''7> that is, ground elder. 

 " Ebulus, wall wort," in later hand" lyj^e 

 " wort," MS. Harl. 3388. In Hb. cxxvii. 

 lihpyjir is erifia, which is unknown, and 

 from the drawing probably nothing but 

 dwarf elder was understood. Viburnum 

 lantana was never known by this 

 name. 



IJyt'pan ? to lather, spumam e sapone con- 

 ficere, aut ex quovis eiusmodi. Lyjjpe, 

 imperat, Lb. I. 1. 2. AlyJ^pe, Lb. I. 

 xxii. 2. AleJ^jie, Lb. I. liv. 



Lit>ule, Lb , I. Ixi. 2. Somner said fistula, 

 which is a disease ; Lye, fistula, enema; 

 it has been translated in connexion with 

 the foregoing leechdoms, as if li'S-ele, 

 joijit oil, synovia. 



Lonb abl, fem., gen. -e, nostalgia, Lb. II. 

 Ixv. 5. 



Lunsenjiypc, fem., gen. -e, lungwort, 

 pulmonaria officinalis. Germ., Lungen- 

 wm'z; Dansk, Lungurt; Swed. Lungort. 

 2. A sort mentioned, Lb. I. xxxviii. 4, 

 " yellow upwards," hieracium murorum 

 and pulmonarium, golden lung wort. 



Liiscmoce, fem., gen. -an, not in the gll ., 

 possibly by corruption of syllables, 

 Ladys smock, cardamine pratensis. Lb. 

 I. xxxviii. 3. 10. A kind with a cropp 

 or bunchy head. Lb. I. xxxix. 2 ; I. 

 xxxviii. 3. 



M. 



CDiel, gen. -ej*, neut., measure. Orienfis 

 Mir. ix. Chron. p. 3.'54, line 31, anno 

 1085. Lb. L ii. 1 ; XL vii. " Circinum, 

 " maelranj;e," Gl. Somn. p. 65 b, 4, a pair 

 of compasses, measure tongs. Where 

 bajsmaslar is printed, the MS. has 

 dajsmael uf. 



CDaj;e))e, CDagoJie, fem., gen. -an, maytlie, 

 Anthemis nohilis. 2. ]nlbe mase)>e, 

 maythe, Matricaria chamomilla. 3. 

 maytke, maythen, Anthemis cotula. 



1. Chamasmelon is translated majehe, 

 lib. xxiv. " Camemelon, magethe," 

 Gl. Dun. " Beneolentem," Gl. Brux. 

 p. 41 a, the distinctive mark of true 

 chamomille. " Chomomilla, megede 

 " blomen," a Gl. in Mone, 286 b. 



2. ^ilbe mashe. Lb. II. xxii., xvild 

 maythe, must be Avild chamomille, for I 

 do not find that No. 3 was ever supposed 

 to possess medicinal properties; it is 

 therefore matricaria chamomilla. 



3. The anthemis cotula is now called 

 maythen, the final being, to speak after 

 our grammars, derived from the termi- 

 nation of the oblique cases ; country 

 folk say it may be always distinguished 

 from the true camomille by its bad 

 smell. The glossaries agree, " Camomilla 

 " i . camamille similis est amarusce \_read 

 " -ae] sed camomilla herba breuis est et 

 " redolens et amarusea i . maythe fetit " 

 [foetet], MS. Rawlinson,c. 707. " Herba 

 " putida, mseS'Sa," Gl. Somn. p. 64 a, 

 line 11. "Mathers, May weed, Dogs 

 " cammomill. Stinking cammomill, and 

 " Dogfenel." Lyte (A.D. 1595). 



Perhaps the Saxons included pyrcth- 

 rmn parthenium. These plants are so 

 much alike that it requires much tech- 

 nicality to distinguish them ; the artist 

 in MS. V. took the liberty of making 

 the flowers blue. Calmia, mayl^e, MS. 

 Sloane, 146, with i marked. " Culmia, 

 " magethe," Gl. Dun., whence correct 

 Somner. Gl. p. 66 [63] b, line 6. Calmia 

 is calamine, ore of zinc, and these 

 glosses are blunders. 



Reabe ma5e]>e, anthemis tinctoria. Lb. 

 I. Ixiv. 



White maythe, pyrethrum inodorum. 

 " Bucstalmum \_read $ov(pda\/xoy'], hvit 

 " mcgethe," Gl. Dun. ; jirintcd bucstal- 

 inum, Gl. Brux. p. 41 a. 



