单词 | dea-nettle |
释义 | dea-nettlen. Obsolete exc. dialect. A name given to the species of Lamium (dead-nettle n.) and other Labiates having nettle-like leaves; but in Scotland and the North of England more especially to the Hemp-nettle, Galeopsis Tetrahit, the acute calyx-segments of which, when dry and rigid, often wound the hands of reapers. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > dead-nettle or hemp-nettle blind-nettleeOE nettleeOE dead-nettle1398 red archangela1425 red dead-nettlea1425 archangel1440 deaf-nettlec1440 swan's tonguec1450 dea-nettle?1530 henbit1597 nettle-hemp1597 day-nettle1635 base horehound1736 Ballota1778 weasel-snout1796 hemp-nettle1801 glidewort1866 Lamium1974 ?1530 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. xiii There be other wedes not spoken of, as dee, nettyls, dodder, and suche other do moche harme. 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 325 Dea-nettle, galeopsis tetrahit; wild hemp. 1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 162 Labourers in harvest are sometimes affected with whitlow, and they ascribe the disease invariably to the sting of the Deye-nettle. 1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Deāa, Dēea, Dee nettle, the dead nettle—Lamium album. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.?1530 |
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