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▪ I. eglantine1|ˈɛgləntaɪn, -tɪn|
Forms: 4–6 eglentine, (6 eggletyne), 7– eglantine.
[a. F. églantine (= Pr. aiglentina), f. OF. aiglent of same meaning, prob. repr. Lat. type *aculentus prickly, f. acu-s needle + -lentus suffix, as in viru-lentus, lucu-lentus; cf. aculeus sting, prickle.]
1. The Sweet-briar; also attrib.
c1400Mandeville ii. 14 There he was crouned with Eglantier [v.r. Eglentine]. 1551Turner Herbal i. N vj a, The eglentine is much like the common brere but the leues are swete and pleasant to smel to. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. ii. i. 152 Quite ouer-cannoped with..Eglantine. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 62/2 The Eglantine Rose is the Sweet brier Rose. a1763Shenstone Odes (1765) 122 Nor spare the sweet-leaft eglantine. 1820Keats Isabella xxiv, Ere the hot sun count His dewy rosary on the eglantine. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. iv. 82 Hedges filled with honeysuckle and eglantine.
¶2. By Milton possibly taken for: The honeysuckle.
1632Milton L'Allegro 48 Through the sweetbriar or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine.
▪ II. ˈeglantine2
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1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) I. vi. 31 Eglantine, a stone of the hardness and grain of marble. |