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A DICTIONARY OF 
Waur, or Waure. Various kinds of Sea-weed. ‘ Sea-woor, or Sea- 
wrack,’ Kent (Thanet), E. E. S. Gloss. B. 11, C. 3. Hal. See Ware, 
Woare, Woore, Ore. 
Wave-wine. Convolvulus sepium, L., and C. arvensis, L, — Morton’s 
Cyclopaedia of Agriculture. 
Wax Dolls. Fumaria offi^cinalis, L. — Herts ; Kent^ Pratt. 
Way Barley. See Barley, Way. 
Way Bent. Hordeum inurinum, L. — ‘ Called in Cabridgsliire Way 
bent.’ Turn. Names. See Bennet. Prior, p. 247. 
Waybread, or Waybred. Plantago major, L. — A widely-extended 
name, spelt in many ways, and with numerous variations. Grete 
Herball (Weybrede); North, Turn. (Waybrede); Ger. (Weybred); 
Appx. (Waybread) ; dies. (Waybred) (Wilbraham gives also Way- 
brid and Wybrow) ; W. dies. (Wayberry); North, Grose; Wilts. 
(Wayside Bread) ; E. Bord. (Waybrede, Wayborn, Waybret), 
Bot. E. Bord. ; Scotl. (Wabran-leaves, Waberan-leaf and Wabert- 
leaf), Jamieson. Hal. erroneously has ‘ the plantain tree.’’ Prior, 
p. 247. 
Wayfaring Tree. Vilmrnum Lantana, L. — A name invented by 
Gerard, who calls it Wayfaring Man’s Tree, of which Parkinson 
says (Theatr. 1449) : ‘ Gerard calleth it in English the Waifaring tree, 
but I know no travailer doth take either pleasure or profit by it, 
more then by any other hedge trees.’ Prior (p. 247) gives also Way- 
farer Tree. In Aubrey’s Nat. Hist, of Wilts (p. 56), probably by a 
mistake, Pyrus Aiicuparia, Gaertn. 
Wayfron. Plantago major, L. — E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord, 
Way Grass. ‘ Knot grass.’ Hal. Polygonum aviculare, L. 
Wayside Bread. Plantago major, L. — Wilts. 
Way Thistle. Carduus arvensis, L. — Dr. J. Hill (Herb. Brit. 1769). 
Prior, p. 233. 
Waythorn. Rhamnus catliarticus, L. — Lyte. Bat. Prior, p. 247. 
Way wind. Convolvulus arvensis, L., and C. sepium, L. — Oxf. 
(C. sepium ) ; Warw. 
Way-wort. Anagallis arvensis, L. — Hal. ‘ Wey wort is Ipia maiord 
Ger. Appx.: this would appear to be Stellar ia aquatica. 
Weasel Snout. Lamiuni Galeohdolon, Cr. Clou. ‘ Tire flower of 
the dead nettle is like a Weasells face, and is called Galeopsis, which 
in Greek signifies the same.’ Coles, A. of S., 35. 
Weather Glass. Anagallis arvensis, L. — S. Bucks. See Poor Man’s 
Weather-glass and Shepherd’s Weather-glass. 
Weather- wind. Convolvulus sepium, L. Cfr. Withwind. Hal. 
Weather- wind, Cow’s. See Cow’s Weather- wind. 
Weeby. Senecio Jaeohcea, L. — Clackmannansli. ; Forfar sh. 
Weedbind. Convolvulus arvensis, L., and C. sepium, L. — Turn. 
