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† ˈpigle Obs.
[According to Alphita, = med.L. pigula, F. pigle, of which nothing further is known. It was perh. another form of the word paigle, though in ME. applied to an entirely different plant, and app. only in 16th c. identified with paigle the cowslip. (In the Supplement to Gerarde, 1597, Pagle is given as ‘stichwort’.)]
1. The Stitchwort, Stellaria Holostea (apparently).
a1387Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 27 Lingua avis, i. stichewort i. pigle. Ibid. 34 Pigle, i. stichewort. c1450Alphita (ibid.) 103 Lingua auis, pigula idem, florem habet album. gallice pigule. anglice sticheuurt. Ibid. 146 Pigula, lingua avis. [Cf. Brit. Mus. Add. MSS. 15236, ‘Lingua avis, gallice pigle, latine vero pigla’.]
2. = paigle, the cowslip (apparently).
1570Levins Manip. 129/35 Note, that ofttimes ble is written for bil,..gle for gil [etc.]... Pigle [mispr. Pigil], for pigil, verbasculum. |