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brooklime|ˈbrʊklaɪm|
Forms: [1 hleomoce, 4–5 lemoke, lemeke, lemke], 5 brokelemke, -lempk, 6 brokelem, brooklem, -lyme, 7 brokelempe, brokelhempe, 6 brooklyme, -lime.
[Worn down from ME. brok-lemok, f. bróc brook + lemok:—OE. hleomoc, name of the plant.]
A species of Speedwell (Veronica Beccabunga) common on the edges of ditches; also a kindred species known as Lesser Brooklime or Narrow-leaved Water Speedwell (V. Anagallis).
[c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 92 Hleomoce hatte wyrt sio weaxeð on broce. a1387Sinon. Barthol. (Mowat Anecd. Oxon. i.) Fabaria, lemke [printed levike]. a1465Alphita (Mowat Anecd. Oxon. ii.) 86 Fabaria..anglice lemeke uel lemoke. ]a1450MS. Bodl. 536 (Plant names), Brokelemke. c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture in Babees Bk. (1868) 185 Broke lempk..is good for ache. 1548Turner Names of Herbes (1881) 25 Called in englishe Brooklem, and in Duche Bauchbung. 1551― Herbal 98 Broocklyme. 1597Gerard Herbal clxxxiv. 495 Brookelime or Brooklem, hath fat, thicke stalkes. 1614Markham Cheape Husb. (ed. 3) 97 Take Brokelempe [ed. 1668 brooklime] the lesse, and frie it with Tallow. 1748Anson Voy. ii. xii. (ed. 4) 364 Nor is there any other useful vegetable here worth mentioning except brook-lime. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xii. 124. 1846 Sowerby Eng. Bot. (1866) VI. 169 The leaves and young stems of the Brooklime were once in favour as an antiscorbutic. |