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† maythe(s Obs.
Forms: α. 1 maᵹoþe, -eþe, -aþe, maᵹþa, 5 mawth. β. 1 mæᵹeþe, mæᵹþa, 4, 6 mathe, 4, 8 maithe, 4–7 maythe, 5 mathge (?), 6–7 mayth.
[OE. maᵹoþe wk. fem., mæᵹþa wk. masc., of obscure origin; some have suggested connexion with OE. mæᵹeð maiden.]
1. Stinking Camomile, Anthemis Cotula. Applied also to various other composite plants resembling this, as Anthemis nobilis, Matricaria Chamomilla, M. inodora, Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum, Pyrethrum Parthenium.
c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 120 Ðas wyrte þe man camemelon & oðrum naman maᵹeþe nemneð. Ibid. II. 140 Þa readan maᵹoþan. Ibid. 206 Wermod & wildre maᵹþan wyrttruman. c1050Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 296/29 Beneolentem, maᵹaðe, uel camemelon. Ibid. 297/3 Bucstalmum [read Buoftalmum], hwit mæᵹeðe. Ibid., Obtalmon, maᵹeðe. a1387Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 10/2 Amarusca, maythe. Ibid. 16/2 Cocula fetida, maythes. 14..Sloane MS. 5 in Promp. Parv. 321 note, Amarusca calida, Gall. ameroche, Ang. maithe. 14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 563/23 Amarusa, a mathge. c1450Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 45/2 Consolida media,..whit-bothel uel seynt Mary maythe. 14..in Archæologia XXX. 410 Mawth. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §20 Doggefenell and mathes is bothe one. 1578Lyte Dodoens ii. xxx. 186, I haue Englished it Unsauerie Camomill, foolish Mathes, and white Cotula without sauour. 1597Gerarde Herbal Table Eng. Names, Stinking Mayth, that is Maie weed. 1614Markham Cheap Husb. i. Table of Hard Words, Maythe, is a weede that growes amongst corne, and is called of some Hogs-Fennell.
2. red maythe(s: Red or Purple Camomile, Adonis autumnalis.
1548,1551[see maidweed]. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. lxxiv. 310 Adonis flower is called in Latine Flos Adonis..in English we may call it red Maythes. 1713Petiver Catal. Ray's Eng. Herbal §v. Pl. xxxix. 8 Red Maithes. |