† hillwortn.
Obsolete.
An old name of Pennyroyal (or ? of Wild Thyme).
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pulegeeOE
organOE
hillwortc1000
pulegiumOE
wood-minta1300
puliol royalc1300
churchworta1400
puliol?a1425
pennyroyal1530
pudding grass1538
organy1540
organy1578
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 133/34 Samum, hylwurt.
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 137/2 Pollegia, hylwyrt.
a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 555/1 Pulegium, i. puliol, i. hulwurt.
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 605/48 Pulegium, hullewort.
1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. X iij Hyll worte..taken with wyne purgeth blacke coler.
1597 J. Gerard Herball App. Hilwort is Puliol mountaine.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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