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southernwood Bot.|ˈsʌðənwʊd|
Forms: (see southern a. and wood n.); also 3 southren-, 5 sothren-, sutherne-, 5–6 sothern-, 7 soothern-, south-hern-. β. 2 suþer-, 5 soþer-, sother-.
[OE. súðerne southern a. 5 b, and wudu wood n.]
1. A hardy deciduous shrub or plant, Artemisia Abrotanum, having a fragrant aromatic smell and a sour taste, orig. native to the south of Europe, and formerly much cultivated for medicinal purposes. Also, the genus of Compositæ of which this is the type.
αc1000Sax. Leechd. I. 250 Ðeos wyrt þe man abrotanum, & oðrum naman suðerne wuda nemneþ, ys tweᵹea cynna. a1387Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 12 Averoyn, southrenwode. a1400Stockh. Med. MS. i. 12 in Anglia XVIII. 295 Aueroyne he take..Queche is callyd soþernwode also. 14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 571 Caruca, suthernewode. c1440Promp. Parv. 467/1 Sowtherne woode, herbe,..abrotonum. 1548Turner Names Herbes 7 Sothernwod is hote and dry in the thirde degree. c1550H. Lloyd Treas. Health X iij, Sothernewood & freshe grece..do drawe oute spriges, thornes, and other thinges. 1614Gorges Lucan ix. 406 That which Southernwood we call, Whose smoake the serpents so distast. 1671J. Webster Metallogr. xv. 211 Resembling the shrub Southernwood, thick set with little twigs leaning one to another. 1718Quincy Compl. Disp. 121 Southern-wood..is now almost out of use in Medicine. 1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxvi. (1794) 386 Southernwood is shrubby, erect, and has setaceous leaves very much branched. 1833Tennyson Mariana in South Poems 20 Not a breath..moved the dusty southernwood. 1867H. Macmillan Bible Teach. vii. (1870) 144 Some leaves consist of little more than veins, as in..fennel and southernwood.
βc1150Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 544 Abrotanum, suþerwude. a1400Sqr. lowe Degre 33 The sother-wood, and sykamoure. c1460Promp. Parv. (Winch. MS.) 426 Sotherwode, herbe, abrotanum.
b. With distinguishing epithets, denoting various species of Artemisia, or plants resembling these (see quots.).
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 66 b, Some call it Santonia, and female Southernewood. 1578Lyte Dodoens 1 There be two sortes of Sothrenwood (as Dioscorides sayth) the one called female Sothrenwood, or the great Sothrenwood, the other is the male kinde. c1710Petiver Cat. Ray's Eng. Herbal Tab. xx, Wild Southernwood. 1731Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Abrotanum, The Lesser and Narrower-leav'd Southernwood. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl., Santolina, female southernwood. Ibid. s.v. Santolina, The male southernwood. 1771Encycl. Brit. I. 428/1 There are 23 species of artemisia, only 4 of which are natives of Britain, viz. the campestris, or field-southernwood [etc.]. 1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 709 Artemisia maritima. Sea Southernwood. Sea Wormwood. 1853Mayne Expos. Lex. 89/1 Artemisia Santonica,..the Tartarian southern-wood, or wormwood, or the worm-seed plant. 1857Henfrey Bot. 320 Artemisia Abrotanum is Garden Southern-wood.
2. attrib. and Comb., as southernwood-leaved, southernwood twig.
1822Hortus Anglicus II. 389 S. Abrotanifolius. Southernwood-leaved Groundsel. 1849Diss. Silk Manuf. (Shanghae) 10 The southern-wood twigs are of a cooling nature. 1887D. C. Murray & Herman Traveller Returns vii. 98 In each bowl a bound bunch of southernwood twigs.
So † ˈsouthernwort. Obs.
1510Stanbridge Vocabula (W. de W.) D ij b, Abrotinum, sotherne worte. 1530Palsgr. 273/2 Southerne⁓worthe. 1610Markham Masterp. ii. clxxiii. 482 Abrotanum, which we cal in English southernwort. |