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wormseed|ˈwɜːmsiːd|
[worm n. 4.]
1. A name for various plants considered to have anthelmintic properties; as swine's fennel or sulphurwort, Peucedanum officinale; Artemisia Santonica, A. Vahliana, A. judaica, A. maritima; Erysimum cheiranthoides (Treacle or English Wormseed); Chenopodium anthelminticum and Ambrina anthelmintica (American Wormseed); Halogeton tamariscifolium (Spanish Wormseed).
a1400–50Stockh. Med. MS. 188 Swynys fenkel or wyrmsed: feniculus porosus. c1400[see swynesfenel s.v. swine 5 b]. 1541Bk. Properties Herbs D j, Feniculus poeticus..is called worme sede. It is good to destroy wormes in a mannes body. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. xxii. 212 Cameline, or English Woormseed. Ibid. 213 Treacle Wormeseede riseth vp with tough and pliant braunches. Ibid. ii. ccccxxxv. 942 The Latines name it Sementina: the seede is called Semen sanctum, Holie seede, and Semen contra Lumbricos: in English Wormseed; the herbe it selfe is also called Wormseed, or Wormseedwoort. 1640Parkinson Theat. Bot. vii. xxviii. 867 Camelina..English Wormeseede. 1686Ray Hist. Plant. I. 368 Absinthium Santonicum Alexandrinum C.B...Semen Sanctum Park. Sementina Ger...Wormseed. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 332 Worm-seed, Chenopodium. 1770J. R. Forster tr. Kalm's Trav. N. Amer. I. 163 Chenopodium anthelminticum is very plentiful on the road... The English who settled here, call it Worm-seed and Jerusalem Oak... In Pensylvania and New Jersey its seeds are given to children, against the worms. 1796Withering Brit. Plants III. 585 Erysimum cheiranthoides..Treacle Wormseed. 1831J. Davies Mat. Med. 418 Wormseed. Jerusalem Oak. Chenopodium anthelminticum,..growing all over America. 1866Treas. Bot. s.v., Spanish Wormseed, Halogeton tamariscifolium.
2. The dried flower-heads of one or other of these plants, used as an anthelmintic. Formerly also in pl. Levant wormseed, Alexandrian wormseed, Barbary wormseed, Tartarian wormseed, that prepared from species of Artemisia.
1502Arnolde Chron. (1811) 234 Worme sede, ij. s. vi. d. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 269 Woorme seede of the best kynde, cauled Semenzina. 1594R. Wilson Coblers Proph. ii. 427 (Malone Soc.) Sould. I abhorre and defie thee. Con. Euen as the child doth wormeseed hid in Raisons. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. ccccxxxv. 941 This Wormwood called Sementina and Semen sanctum..beareth that seede which we haue in vse, called Wormseede: in shoppes Semen santolinum. 1615in W. Foster Lett. recd. E. Ind. Co. (1899) III. 177 Wormseeds likewise doth grow in Corosson. 1690Locke Hum. Und. i. ii. §25 The Child certainly knows..That the Wormseed or Mustard it refuses, is not the Apple or Sugar it cries for. 1704Lond. Gaz. No. 3983/4 The Cargo of the Ship Hamstead Galley,..consisting of..Worm-seeds, Gum Arabeck [etc.]. 1727–51Chambers Cycl., Wormseed, Semen contra, semen sanctum, or semen santonicum. 1731Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Chenopodium, The fourth and fifth Sorts were brought from America, where the Seeds are call'd Worm-Seed. 1789Phil. Trans. LXXIX. 82 The Chenopodium, producing the semen santonicum, or worm-seed, a medicine formerly in great character. 1866Treas. Bot., Wormseed... The name is applied in herb-shops to Semen contra, the produce of several species of Artemisia. 1867Watts Dict. Chem., Wormseed. Semen Cinæ. Semen Contra. Semen Santonici.—The flower-buds of Artemisia Vahliana, A. Sieberi, and A. inculta. 1880Garrod & Baxter Mat. Med. 293 Santonica or worm-seed.
3. The eggs of the silkworm moth. Cf. seed n. 6 a.
1733P. Lindsay Interest Scotl. 133 By supplying the Planters in those Parts with small Quantities of Wormseed, of the best Breed.
4. attrib. in wormseed mustard, wormseed oil, † wormseed stone, wormseed weed, † wormseed wort (see quots.).
1856A. Gray Man. Bot. (1860) 35 Erysimum cheiranthoides. *Worm-seed Mustard.
1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 167 The essential oil of Chenopodium anthelminticum, known in North America under the name of *Worm-seed Oil, is powerfully anthelmintic. 1868Watts Dict. Chem., Wormseed-oil. Oleum cinæ.
1729Woodward Nat. Hist. Fossils I. 65 A Stone..found in..Cornwall: and is called there, *Wormseed-Stone, being thick set with small Bodies, not unlike the Semen Santonici, or Wormseed.
1750G. Hughes Barbados 170 The *Worm-Seed Weed. 1830J. D. Maycock Flora Barbadensis 446 Worm Seed Weed. Chenopodium anthelminticum. 1597*wormseedwoort [see 1]. |