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bryony|ˈbraɪənɪ|
Also 6 brionye, bryonye, (brione), 6–7 brionie, 7–9 briony.
[ad. L. bryonia (Pliny), a. Gr. βρυωνία (Diosc.). Cf. also Fr. bryone, whence Eng. brione in 16th c.]
1. prop. The English name of the plant-genus Bryonia (family Cucurbitaceæ); and spec. the common wild species (B. dioica), sometimes called (in distinction from sense 2) red, or white Bryony.
c1000Saxon Leechd. I. 172 Genim þas wyrte ðe man bryonia..nemneð. 1552Huloet, Bryonye or wylde vine. 1598Yong Diana 302 Bryony, or the white vine, which runs winding about the bodies of trees like a snake. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farm 45 Against Deafenesse..drop into your eares the iuice of..Brionie, mixed with Honey or Oyle. 1815Shelley Rev. Islam iii. 7 Drooping briony, pearled With dew..Hung, where we sate. 1832Lytton Eugene A. vi. 10 The white bryony overrunning the thicket. 1863Longfellow Wayside Inn, Sicilian's T. 26 One..mended the rope with braids of briony.
2. black bryony: a name given, from similarity of habit to the prec., to an endogenous climbing plant, Lady's Seal, Tamus communis (family Dioscoreaceæ), wild in the south of England.
1626Bacon Sylva §492 The Shrub called Our Ladies Seal, (which is a kind of Briony). 1805Med. & Phys. Jrnl. XIV. 68 T. communis, Bryony Lady-seal. Black briony. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. ii. 271 This species..although commonly called Black Bryony, has nothing to do with the genus Bryonia. 1883Gd. Words Nov. 710/2 The..red-berried bryony, and the so-called black-bryony.
3. bastard bryony: Cissus sicyoides.
4. attrib. and Comb. bryony-vine = sense 1.
1684Boyle Porousn. Anim. Bod. iii. 18 Helmont talks much of the great vertue of white Briony root. 1842Tennyson Amphion 29 Briony-vine and ivy-wreath Ran forward to his rhyming. 1875Fortnum Maiolica ix. 84 Small vine or briony leaves and interlaced tendrils. |