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† ˈsperage Obs.
Also 7 spirage, sperrage, 8 spearage.
[a. OF. sperage, var. of sparage sparage.]
Asparagus.
c1440Pallad. on Husb. iii. 558 Sperages seed..Is good to sowe hem with,..For cannes & sperage haue oon tylynge. 1545Elyot, Asparagus, an herbe callyd of common Apotecaries Sparagus, in englishe Sperage. 1577B. Googe tr. Heresbach's Husb. 19 Sperage and such like, must be sowen in shaddowy places. 1620Venner Via Recta vii. 150 Asparagus or Sperage is hot in the beginning of the first degree. 1688Holme Armoury ii. 99/2 Asparagus or Sperage... The Flowers are yellow, consisting of six leaves. 1731Miller Gard. Dict., Asparagus,..Sparagus or Sperage. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 327 Spearage, see Asparagus.
attrib.1611Cotgr., Pois à visage,.. Sperage Beanes, French Beanes,..Kidney Beanes. a1661B. Holyday Juvenal 77 Thy patrone's fish, Deck'd round with sperage-buds.
b. With distinguishing adjs.
1545Elyot, Corruda, an herbe called wylde sperage. 1548Turner Names Herbes (E.D.S.) 17 It maye be called in englishe pricky Sperage, because it is all full of pryckes. 1601Holland Pliny II. 122 The stalke is smooth, and resembleth garden Sperage. a1661B. Holyday Juvenal 214 Wild sperage too We'll have; my plow-man's wife her spindle threw Aside, to gather it. 1758Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornw. 233 Marsh-asparagus or sperage, Asparagus palustris. |