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sanicle|ˈsænɪk(ə)l|
Also 5 sanycle, 6 sanickle, 6–7 sanikell, (7 sanikl, 8 sanicula).
[a. OF. sanicle (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.; AF. c 1265 in Wr.-Wülck. 553/9), ad. med.L. sanicula, saniculum, prob. f. L. sān-us healthy, with reference to the healing powers formerly attributed to the plant. Cf. Sp., Pg. sanícula, It. sanicola, G. sanikel (late OHG. sanikela).]
1. The umbelliferous plant Sanicula europæa (more fully wood sanicle). Also, in extended sense, any plant of the genus Sanicula, as S. marilandica, the black snakeroot.
14..Stockholm Med. MS. i. 263 in Anglia XVIII. 302 Take sanycle and grynde it smal. 1548Turner Names Herbes (E.D.S.) 86 Sanicula is named in englishe Sanicle. 1643J. Steer tr. Exp. Chyrurg. xvi. 66 With a sufficient quantity of the juice of Sanicle..make thereof Trochisqus. 1852Th. Ross Humboldt's Trav. I. vii. 254 A sanicle not unlike the S. Marilandica. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. ii. 183 Compare, also, fruits of Sanicle, covered with stout hooked prickles. 1889Daily News 20 May 5/2 Patches of wood⁓sanicle.
2. Applied to various plants of other genera.
†a. = satyrion (obs.).
†b. = saxifrage (obs.).
c. With defining words, as alpine, bear's ear sanicle, the primulaceous plant Cortusa matthioli; American sanicle, Heuchera villosa (Miller Plant-n., 1884); (American) bastard sanicle, the genus Mitella; † great sanicle, Lady's mantle, Alchemilla vulgaris; Indian, white sanicle U.S., the white snakeroot, Eupatorium ageratoïdes (Cent. Dict.); † Yorkshire sanicle, butterwort, Pinguicula vulgaris.
14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 613/33 Stinctum, i. Satirion, sanycle. 1578Lyte Dodoens i. xcviii. 140 Great Sanicle or Ladies Mantell, groweth in some places of this countrey. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cclxiii. 643 Pinguicula..Butter⁓wort, or Yorkshire Sanicle. Ibid. 645 The first is called..in English spotted Sanicle; of our London dames pratling Parnell. 1657W. Coles Adam in Eden xi. 24 The Bears eares according to their name Sanicle are no lesse powerful for healing then the former. 1705tr. Cowley's Plants Wks. 1711 III. 345 Next Spotted Sanicle and Navel-wort. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. 326 Sanicle, Saxifraga. Ibid., Sanicle, American Bastard, Mitella. |