单词 | neezewort |
释义 | † neezewortn. Obsolete. The plant white hellebore, Veratrum album. Also (in full black neezewort): black hellebore, Helleborus niger.The roots of both plants were thought to provoke sneezing.The white neezewort of quot. 15481 may be an English native plant, perhaps a species of helleborine (genus Epipactis). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > hellebores or medicinal hellebores helleboreOE black helleborea1398 padelion1526 neezewort1548 nosewort1563 hellebory1575 melampode1579 neezing wort1591 neezing root1598 poke root1687 melampodium1822 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > plant used in medicine > specific plant > hellebore neezewort1548 neezing root1598 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.vijv Veratrum..maye be called in englishe Nesewurte. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.vijv There are two kyndes of Helleborus, the one is called..in englishe Nesewurt or whyte Nesewurt. This kinde groweth in Syon Parcke in Englande. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.vijv The herbe..which hath bene hytherto taken for blacke Nisewurt, or Veratrum nigrum. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 347 This kinde of Hellebor is called..in English White Hellebor, Neseworte, and Lingwort. 1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 93 First of the Nesewort, it doth driue away, And poysoneth troublesome Mice. 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole lxxxii. 346 White Ellebor, Neesewort or Neesing roote, because the powder of the roote is vsed to procure neesing. 1670 tr. J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Trilinguis col. 441 Aloes, hellebore [neez-wort], rhabarb, sene, are purging. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1548 |
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