英语词汇“eyeseed”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

eyeseed n. English regional (now historical) a seed believed to expel foreign bodies when placed in the eye (cf. eye-stone n. (a)); (also) (in plural) the plant providing such seeds, perhaps vervain or wild clary, Salvia verbenaca (cf. clary n.²), or common gromwell, Lithospermum officinale.The property of cleansing or expelling foreign matter from the eye was attributed to the seeds of the plant known as oculus christi (probably wild clary) in the 16th cent.; cf. quot. 1553 at oculus Christi n.

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1871 Gardeners' Chron. 14 Jan. 45/3 I am told they [sc. the enclosed seeds] are the produce of a perennial plant growing by an old road in Oxfordshire, and that the people there have great faith in their powers of drawing or expelling foreign matters from the eye; and by whom they are called ‘Eye seeds’.

1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Eyeseeds, a plant whose seeds, if blown into the eye, are said to remove bits of dust, cinders, or insects that may be lodged therein. (Qu. what plant?)

1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 172 Eye-seeds..Probably Salvia Verbenaca.

1923 E. Gepp Essex Dial. Dict. (ed. 2) 45 Eyeseed, the seed of gromwell (Lithospermum officinale), which is put into the eye when a foreign substance has got in... ‘I got a ail in my eye,’ a man said, ‘an I put a eyeseed in, and next mornin' that laid on my eyelid.’

1984 S. M. Palliser Use Plants Eng. Folk Med. 54 The remedy was still continued in Lincolnshire into the nineteenth century using a similar species of plant, the vervain sage, known as ‘eyeseeds’.

单词	eyeseed
释义	> as lemmas eyeseed eyeseed n. English regional (now historical) a seed believed to expel foreign bodies when placed in the eye (cf. eye-stone n. (a)); (also) (in plural) the plant providing such seeds, perhaps vervain or wild clary, Salvia verbenaca (cf. clary n.²), or common gromwell, Lithospermum officinale.The property of cleansing or expelling foreign matter from the eye was attributed to the seeds of the plant known as oculus christi (probably wild clary) in the 16th cent.; cf. quot. 1553 at oculus Christi n. ΚΠ 1871 Gardeners' Chron. 14 Jan. 45/3 I am told they [sc. the enclosed seeds] are the produce of a perennial plant growing by an old road in Oxfordshire, and that the people there have great faith in their powers of drawing or expelling foreign matters from the eye; and by whom they are called ‘Eye seeds’. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Eyeseeds, a plant whose seeds, if blown into the eye, are said to remove bits of dust, cinders, or insects that may be lodged therein. (Qu. what plant?) 1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 172 Eye-seeds..Probably Salvia Verbenaca. 1923 E. Gepp Essex Dial. Dict. (ed. 2) 45 Eyeseed, the seed of gromwell (Lithospermum officinale), which is put into the eye when a foreign substance has got in... ‘I got a ail in my eye,’ a man said, ‘an I put a eyeseed in, and next mornin' that laid on my eyelid.’ 1984 S. M. Palliser Use Plants Eng. Folk Med. 54 The remedy was still continued in Lincolnshire into the nineteenth century using a similar species of plant, the vervain sage, known as ‘eyeseeds’. extracted from eyen.¹ < as lemmas
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