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Tentes. The catkins of Juglans regia, L. — Lyte. 
Tent- wort. Asplenium Ruta-muraria, L. — Merret (Pinax). ‘ It is 
... a Specifick against the Pickets. For this Eeason, our Ancestors 
gave it the Name of Tentwort, deeming it a sovereign Eemedy against 
Narrowness of children's Breasts, or the Tabes Rector ea, as Dr. Boot 
calls it . . . who observes that, according to the various Symptoms 
of the same Distemper, the English called it the Taint, swelling of the 
Joints, and in a more general Word, Pickets. ’ Threlkeld. Prior, p. 231. 
Tore. Tares {Vida sativa, L.). Tusser, E. D. S. Series D, p. 51. 
‘ But rather sowe otes, or else bullimong there, 
Gray peason, or runciuals, fitches, or tere.^ 
It is probable, however, that Tusser merely spelt the word thus to 
rhyme with ‘there,’ as one of his great peculiarities was the spelling 
of rhyming words with the same vowels or consonants, so as to make 
them look alike. See Biographical Sketch of Tusser in same edition, 
p. xxii. See Tare (3). 
Terrididdle, or Terrydivle. Solanuni Dulcamara, L. — dies. (Frod- 
sham), where children chew the roots, and say they are like ‘ stick 
liquorice.’ Probably corrupted from Tether-Devil. 
Tether Devil. Solanuin Dulcamara, L. — Hal. WH’. dies. Wilbraham. 
Tether-Toad. Ranunculus repens, L. — Yks. (Huddersfield) E. D. S. 
Gloss. 
Tetrifol. ‘ The plant trefoil.’ Hal. 
Tetter-berry. The berries of Bryonia dioica, L., which ‘ are good 
against all fretting and running cankers, gangrsenes, and tetters, 
and therefore the berries [are] usually called of the country people. 
Tetter -berries.' Park. Theatr. 181. Hants., where children have an 
idea that the juice of the fruit will, if it touches the skin, produce 
tetter. (Land and Water, Sept. 28, 1872.) Wr. Prior, p. 232. 
Tetter-wort. dielidoniummajus,V. — Lyte. Ger. Hal. Wr. ‘The 
juice often applyed to tetters .... will quickly kill their sharpnesse, 
and heale them also.’ Park. Theatr. p. 618. Prior, p. 232. 
Teyl-tree. See Teile. 
Thale-cress. Arahis Thaliana, L. — Lightf. i. 358. A mere book- 
name adapted from the Latin, the latter being bestowed on the plant 
by Linnaeus in commemoration of Thai (1542 — 1583), who included 
the plant in his Sylva Hercynica. Prior, p. 232. 
Thapes. Fruit of Rihes Grossularia, L. — E. Anglia. Forby; Norf. 
(also Thebes and Thepes, Eay, and Theabes and Thepes, Hal.); 
E. Yks. E. D. S. Gloss. B. 3. A dialectal form of Fabes, which see. 
Prior, p. 75. 
Thatch. See Thetch. 
Theabes, or Thebes. See Thapes. 
Thepes. See Thapes. 
Thetch, or Thatch, but more frequently used in the plural. (1*) Vida 
sativa, L. — S. Bucks. j Herts. ‘In Hertfordshire we call them thetches.^ 
