meumn.1
/ˈmiːəm/, U.S. /ˈmiəm/ The herb spignel, Meum athamanticum. Now chiefly (in form Meum): the monospecific genus of the family Apiaceae ( Umbelliferae) containing this herb. Cf. meu n., meon n.Valid publication of the genus name: P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (abr. ed. 4, 1754) (after J. Pitton de Tournefort Inst. Rei Herbariæ (1700) I. 312; see quot. 1754).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > spignel plant
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1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. E.v Meum called of the grecians Meon and Meion.
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Meum, the Herb Mew, wild Dill or Spikenel.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Meum,..Spignel.
1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. 2064/2 Meum, spignel, in botany, Tournefort's name for the athamanta of Linnæus; being, according to this botanist, a genus of the pentandria–digynia class of plants.
1854 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers (ed. 4) iii. 296 The root[s] of the gout-weed.., of the meum or spignel,..have..been held in esteem.
1956 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) (ed. 2) III. 1296/1 Meum... Fam. Umbelliferae. A genus of 1 or a few species of aromatic, tufted, glabrous perennial herbs, native of the mountains of W. Europe.
1997 Rev. Palaeobot. & Palynol. 97 239 Ca. 12435-11875 cal yr B.P...expansion of vegetation types having no modern analogue in Portugal at 1409 m including Meum and Bupleurum.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
meumn.2
/ˈmiːəm/, /ˈmeɪʊm/, U.S. /ˈmiəm/, /ˈmeɪʊm/ The principle that a person has sole rights to his or her own property, and no rights to another's. Chiefly in the phrase meum and tuum n. (the distinction between) what is mine or one's own and what is yours or another's.
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1585 R. Bostocke Difference Aunc. & Latter Phisicke sig. Biiiv Unquietnesse beginneth in things, where meum & tuum, is become to be knowen to them.
1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. C3 Ras. What wooe my subiects wife that honoreth me? Rada. Tut Kings this meum tuum should not know.
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 223 For many times the thing deduced to Iudgement, may bee meum & tuum, when the reason and consequence thereof may trench to point of estate.
1627 Abp. G. Abbot in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 448 You have allowed a strange Book yonder; which if it be true, there is no Meum or Tuum, no man in England hath any thing of his own.
a1695 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. III (1696) 67 That which is the one's is the other's: their Meums and Tuums are confounded together.
1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub i. 42 A Preferment attained by transferring of Propriety, and a confounding of Meum and Tuum.
1772 W. Johnson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 146 They [sc. North American Indians] are strict observers of meum and tuum.
1813 W. Scott Let. 1 June (1932) III. 281 His [sc. Robin Hood's] indistinct ideas concerning the doctrine of meum and tuum being no great objection to an outridng Borderer.
1847 G. F. Ruxton Adventures Mexico & Rocky Mts. 242 Regardless of the laws of meum and tuum.
1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 82 The distinction between ‘meum’ and ‘tuum’ having been temporarily overlooked.
1940 R. Graves No more Ghosts 59 Lovers in the act dispense With such meum–tuum sense As might warningly reveal What they must not pick or steal.
1992 New Republic 30 Nov. 35/1 Cook never did come to terms with the Polynesians' inability or refusal to distinguish between meum and tuum.
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