单词 | nosesmart |
释义 | † nosesmartn. Obsolete. Any of several plants with a pungent smell or taste, as garden cress ( Lepidium sativum), watercress ( Nasturtium aquaticum), and wild mint ( Mentha aquatica). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > leaf vegetables > cress cressa700 town cresseOE fen-cressc1000 well-cressOE nasturtiumOE watercressc1300 garth-cress?14.. watercress?a1450 women's meadwort?a1450 garden cressa1500 peppergrass?a1500 nosewort1563 nosesmart1589 water-rocket1605 nosewort1608 well grassa1646 cresson1657 water grass1708 tongue-grass1726 poor man's pepper1738 marsh-rocket1739 passerage1879 1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 1749 The hearb nose smart, Nasturtium. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes The hearbe wilde mint, or nose-smart. Also water cresses. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Nasitort Nose-smart, garden Cresse. 1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. iii. 72 The magnetick vertue of the Earth Would draw away the humour of my brain, Just as we see in nose-smart. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Nasturtium, the name of a Plant, otherwise called Nosesmart, or Cresses. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Nosesmart, the herb cresses.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1589 |
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