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gith|gɪθ|
Forms: α. 4, 6 gitte, 6–7 git. β. 7 githen, 4– gith.
[a. L. gith, git, gicti, of unknown origin.]
A name for plants of the genus Nigella, esp. N. sativa. damask gith = N. damascena.
αa1387Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 16 Ciminum Ethiopicum, gitte. 1548Turner Names of Herbes, Git is named..in englishe herbe Git or Nigella romana. 1608Topsell Serpents (1658) 775 Take of the seeds of Git or Nigella ten drams.
β1382Wyclif Isa. xxviii. 27 Forsothe not in sawes shal he throsshe gith. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. lxxxii. (1495) 652 Gyth is a manere potage moche lyke to Comyn..and growyth amonge corne wyth smalle sede..and some meaneth that the herbe Gyth is Nigella. c1420Pallad. on Husb. x. 155 And gith is last eke in this mone ysowe. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 53 The onion and gith. 1611Cotgr., Gith, Hearbe githen, Nigella Romana. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 268 They may be driven away..by the smoake of gith and hemlock. 1713Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 207 Double flowered or Damask Gith. 1822Hortus Anglicus II. 37 Small Fennel Flower, Herb Gith. 1869Blackmore Lorna D. xxii, If thou would keep thy Son, See that bine and gith have none.
b. Applied to the Corn-cockle, Lychnis Githago.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. ccccxxviii. 927 Cockle..is called Gith..yet not properly. 1866Treas. Bot., Gith, the Corn Cockle, Agrostemma Githago. |