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caraway|ˈkærəweɪ|
Forms: (5–7 carway), 6 caruway(e, carowaye, -weie, 6–7 careway(e, carawey, 7 carrowaye, 7–9 carraway, 5– caraway.
[From med.L. carui, or some allied Romanic form: cf. F., It., Sp. carvi (whence Sc. carvy, kervie), OSp. alcaravea, alcarahueya, Pg. alcaravia, alcorovia, a. Arab. al-karawiyā or -karwiyā: cf. Gr. κάρον, κάρεον (in L. carum, careum Pliny), forms however which could not immediately give the Arabic.]
1. An umbelliferous plant (Carum Carui): its small fruits, commonly called ‘caraway-seeds’, are aromatic and carminative; they are used in cakes, sweetmeats, etc., and yield a volatile oil.
c1440Promp. Parv. 62 Caraway herbe, carway, sic scribitur in campo florum. 1551Turner Herbal H iv b, Caruwayes..the poticaries call it carui. 1579Langham Gard. Health (1633) 125 Carway breaketh winde. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xvii. 236 Carraway has no proper involucre. 1861Delamer Kitch. Gard. 124 Caraway is the object of field culture in Essex, and on other stiff soils.
†2. The fruit or ‘seed’ of the caraway; also a sweetmeat or confection containing caraway-seeds. Obs. exc. as Sc. carvy.
1557Seager Sch. Vertue in Babees Bk. (1868) 343 Bisketes or Carowayes. 1586Cogan Haven Health (1636) 101 To eat Carawayes or Biskets, or some other kinde of Comfits or seedes together with Apples. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, v. iii. 3 We will eate a last yeares Pippin of my owne graffing, with a dish of Carrawayes. 1620Melton Astrol. 75 A piece of Cheese, Pippins, or Carrowayes. 1620Venner Via Recta vii. 162 In meates, I prefer the Carewayes before..Fennel-seeds. 1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 5 The Caraways that the people of Paris buy out of the Shops.
3. Comb., as caraway-comfit, a sweetmeat containing caraway-seeds; caraway-seed (see 1); also attrib., as in caraway-seed biscuit.
1710Steele Tatler No. 245 ⁋2 One Silver gilt [box] of a large Size for Cashu and *Carraway Comfits.
1548Turner Names of Herbes s.v., Ye may use *carawey seede or carot seede. 1626Bacon Sylva §54 Adding a little Coriander-seed and Carraway seed. 1694Phil. Trans. XVIII. 212 Oyl of Carui-Seeds. 1836–7Dickens Sk. Boz (1850) 141/2 Some sweet carrawayseed biscuits. |