c1260 Liber Albus I. 231 Des avoirs qe veignent doutre meer: ciere, argoil, quivere, estein.]

c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 260 Of tartre, alym, glas, berm, wort, and argoyle [v.r. -oile, -oille].

1545 T. Raynald & R. Jonas in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde iv. sig. Y.ix Wyne lyes dryed..which the goldsmythes do call Arguyll.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tartre: Tartar or Argall, the lees or dregs that sticke to the sides of wine-vessells.

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist i. iii. sig. C3 You haue Arsnike, Vitriol, Sal Tartre, Argaile . View more context for this quotation

1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Orgall, the lees of Wine dried. [So in Cockeram.]

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Orgal, the Lees of wine dried, used by Dyers, to make their cloth drink in their colour throughly. [So in Phillips.]

1723 B. Mandeville Search Nature of Society in Fable Bees (ed. 2) i. 412 Argol we might have from the Rhine.

1834 Penny Cycl. II. 309/2 Nearly 1000 tons of argol are annually imported into this kingdom. It comes to us from almost all wine-producing countries.

1863 H. Watts Dict. Chem. I. 356 Argal or Argol.

1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 970 There are two sorts of argol known in commerce, the white and the red; the former, which is of a pale pinkish colour, is the crust let fall by white wines; the latter is a dark red from red wines.

1759 Philos. Trans. 1758 (Royal Soc.) 50 668 Another of the..useful plants of this division is the orchel, or argol, as it is commonly called.

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 372 One [lichen] brought from the Canary Islands, viz. the Orchel, or Argol.