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ˈmather(n dial.
Also 6, 9 mathers, 9 madders, mauther(n, maythern, moithern.
[Variant or derivative of maythe, maythen.]
= maythe.
1578Lyte Dodoens ii. xxx. 185 Cotula fœtida. Mathers or stinking Comomill. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. ix. 241 This [land] never requires a double stirring, nor must be made too fine and light, for then it runs to May-weed, or Mathern, as they call it. 1813T. Davis Agric. Wilts 258–268 Maudlin, or Mathern, or Wild Chamomile.—These weeds usually prevail when the ground is overworked or made too light. 1842Akerman Wilts Gloss., Mauthern, the ox-eyed daisy. 1863Barnes Dorset Dial., Madders, or Mathers. The stinking chamomile (anthemis cotula). 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Maythern... Moithern. 1880Jefferies Gt. Estate 155 Last year there had been nearly as much mathern (wild camomile)..as crop. |