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A DICTIONARY OF 
Ear-acb.es), to tbe real or supposed effect produced by it. This effect 
is usually attributed to its odour ; thus Clare (Shepherd’s Calendar) : 
‘ Corn-poppies that in crimson dwell, 
Called headaches from their sickly smell ; ’ 
and Forby says, ‘ Any one, by smelling at it for a very short time, 
may convince himself of the propriety of the name.’ In I7vS. (Ilolder- 
ness) ‘ it is popularly supposed to cause headache by its smell,’ or ‘ by 
the intensity of its scarlet colour, through its dazzling effect on the 
eyes’ (E. D. S. Gloss. C. 7). In the North and in Yks. (With. ed. ii., 
Grose, Hal., Ray, E. D. S. Gloss. B. 7, 15, C. 7) it is called Head- 
wark, this being a northern form of headache, and ‘ a very common 
term in early receipts ’ (Hal.). The name Headache is in use in Derh. 
(Yedwark) ; East, Hal. ; Hants. ; Line. ; Nhamp. (where it is also 
called Headacber), Nth. Gloss. ; Notts. ; Nor/. ; Rati. ; Suss. Parish ; 
Yks. ; and in Ireland (Carlow, Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow), where 
poppies ‘ are particularly obnoxious to females, the more so to unmar- 
ried young women, who have a horror of touching or of being 
touched by them.’ N. & Q., 3, viii. 319. In N. Line, there is the 
following proverb : 
‘ When headaches rattle 
Pigs will sattle ; ’ 
i. e. fall in price (E. D. S. Gloss. C. 6), pigs being usually cheap in 
July. In N. & Q., 3, viii. 204, it is suggested that the poppy is 
intended by the ‘ hediocke ’ of Lyly’s Woman in the Moon : 
‘ Thy head is full of hediokes, Iphicles, 
So shake them off.’ Act v. 
Wr. Prior, p. 105. 
(2) Stellaria Holostea, L. — Cumb. (Whitehaven). 
(3) Cardamine pratensis, L. — Cumb. (Winderwath, Heid-wark). 
Headman. Planfago lanceolata, L. — Pertlish. Jamieson. 
Headwark. See Headache. 
Heal-all. (1) Rhodiola rosea, L. — E. Bord. ‘Often to be met with 
in gardens, where it is sometimes called Heal-all, for the leaves are 
applied to recent cuts of a sHght natui'e.’ Bot. E. Bord. p. 82. 
(2) Valeriana officinalis, L. — Oxf. 
Heal-bite, or Heal-dog. In Lyte’s MS. notes to Dodoen’s Hist, des 
Plantes (Bibl. Brit. Mus. 442, h. 9) the names ‘ Helebyte or Hele 
Dogge’ are applied to Alyssum calycinum, L., with the note: ‘ C’est 
le vray Alysson de Dioscoride : car I’Alisso de Gaffen et de Pline n’est 
pas semblable a cestincy.’ Dodoens (p. 81) says: ‘La mesme prise 
avec autres viandes guerit le rage on forcenerie causee par morsure 
de chien enrage.’ But in Ger. 380 the name is given to Marrubium 
Alysson, L., which he says is called ‘ of some Heale dog ; and it hath the 
name thereof, bicause it is a present remedie for them that are bitten 
of a mad dog, as Galen writeth.’ The confusion between the two 
plants, and consequently that of the names, arose from the doubt as 
to which was the true Alysson of Dioscorides. 
Healing Blade, or Healing Leaf (pronounced Halin). (1) Semper- 
