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ˈmyrtle-berry
a. The fruit of the myrtle (Myrtus).
b. The bilberry or whortleberry. (Cf. OF. myrtille.)
c. myrtle-berry wax = myrtle-wax.
1579Langham Gard. Health (1633) 400 Myrtle beries are very good for them that spit, vomit, or pisse bloud. 1638Rawley tr. Bacon's Life & Death (1650) 50 Unctuous and Comfortable things are, Saffron, Mastick, Myrrhe, and Myrtle-Berries. 1660Act 12 Chas. II, c. 4 Mertle berries the pound—js. 1718Quincy Compl. Disp. 100 Myrtle-Berries are very rough and astringent. 1751Gent. Mag. Feb. 52/1 The plants of Skiddow are the myrtle berries, generally called black-berries, the vitis idæa of Dioscorides. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 459/2 Myrtle-Berry Wax is obtained from the fruit of several species of Myrica. |