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† myrt-tree Obs.
Also 6 myrtre(e.
[See myrt.]
= myrtle 2 a and b.
In second quot. used erron. (cf. note s.v. myrrh-tree).
1382Wyclif 2 Esdras (= Neh.) viii. 15 The braunchis of myrt tree. 1388― Esther ii. 12 So oneli that thei weren anoyntid with oile of myrt tre [oleo myrrhino] bi sixe monethis. c1510Barclay Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570) F iij, The Myrtree and Orange by sea bankes doth growe. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 60 b, The Wild Myrte tre, which is called in Englishe bochers brome. 1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 364 And in this poynt they [sc. women] are not vnlike vnto the Mirt [ed. 1581 Mirre] Tree. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farm 290 The Myrt-tree, which craueth the same ground..that the Myrtle-tree, as being a kind of wild Myrtle-tree.
attrib.1513Douglas æneis vi. vii. heading, Eneas..fand quene Dido in the myrtre schaw. |