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milds, miles dial.
Forms: 1 melde, 5 mielde, medles, 7 meedles, 8 mails, 9 melgs, meals, meols, myl(i)es, miles, milds.
[OE. melde wk. fem., cogn. w. OHG. melda, melde (MHG., mod.G. melde), also with different ablaut-grades malta, molto, MLG., Du. melde. Some scholars suggest that the Teut. word may be cogn. w. Gr. βλίτον (? = *µλίτον) blite.]
A name for various species of Atriplex and Chenopodium.
c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 6 Mugwyrt, organa, melde, quinque folium. Ibid. 54 Nim eac meldon ða wyrt. c1350Med. MS. in Archæologia XXX. 410 Medles. c1450Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 16 Attriplex agrestis,..ang. mielde. 1633Gerarde's Herbal Suppl. to Gen. Table, Meedles, Arage. 1808Jamieson, Middenmylies... Chenopodium viride, et album, Linn.; thus denominated, as growing on dunghills. 1811W. Aiton Agric. Surv. Ayrs. 675 (Jam.) Chenopodium several species, Goosefoot; wild spinage, or mails. 1839Mag. Dom. Econ. IV. 248 The mild succulent weeds, such as chick-weed, and miles or fat-hen. 1853G. Johnston Bot. E. Bord. 171 Chenopodium album. Myles. 1878Cumberld. Gloss. Introd. 19 Chenopodium album. Meols, Fat hen. |