单词 | roseager |
释义 | † roseagern. Scottish. Obsolete. Darnel, Lolium temulentum, a supposedly poisonous weed of wheat fields.The narcotic properties attributed to darnel are probably caused by infection with a seed-borne fungus to which it is particularly susceptible. ΚΠ 1692 A. Symson Large Descr. Galloway (1823) 75 Their beir is commonly very oatie, and in some places mixt with darnel, (which they call Roseager)... This Roseager being narcotick, occasions strangers to find fault with our ale. 1704 Session Rec. Kirkinner MS 17 Dec. in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VIII. 483/2 He had gott too much roseegar which caused him reave that which he did not remember. 1706 in H. Paton Penninghame Parish Rec. (1933) I. 170 He fell very unweel immediately after it and he thinks it was with a little barley bread one of these servants gave him, quhich he is informed is full of roseayer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1692 |
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