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Grim the Collier
[The name of a character in an Elizabethan play (modernized as ‘Grim the Collier of Croydon’ 1662).]
A species of hawk-weed (Hieracium aurantiacum).
1629Parkinson Paradisi lxv. (1656) 300 The fittest English name we can give it, is Golden Mouse-eare..for the name of Grim the Collier, whereby it is called of many, is both idle and foolish. 1633Johnson Gerarde's Herbal ii. xxxvi. 305 Women, who keep it in gardens for noueltie sake, haue named it Grim the Colliar. 1713J. Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 36 Golden Mousear, or Grim the Collier. |