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?c1450 in G. Müller Aus Mittelengl. Medizintexten (1929) 81 (MED) For a woman þat haþ lornn her floures, to restoren is a-ȝen: Tak mader-rotes and rue-leues and sethem to-gedre in wyn.

1553 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe (new ed.) sig. Siii Brimstone, myrhe Agaricke, Rue leaues, cassia Fistula.

1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount f. 37 Rue water, Rose water.

1617 Salerne's Regiment 133 Rew-water sprinckled in the house, kils all the fleas.

1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis ii. v. ii. 248 Of a russet colour, and as it were all over pounced, somewhat after the manner of a Rue-Leaf.

1711 tr. L. Bordelon Hist. Ridiculous Extravagancies Monsieur Oufle vi. 222 They prescribe Rue Leaves, the smoak of Ash-wood, and Goats Horns.

1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) II. xiii. 449 Put into very strong vinegar, verdigrise, rue-juice, and gum-arabic.

1822 G. Thorburn Let. in 40 Yrs Resid. in Amer. (1834) 237 Took half a glass of rue water, which is made by putting two ounces of green rue in a porter-bottle, and adding one pint of clear rain water, and one pint of Holland gin.

1921 Classical Jrnl. 16 527 This is the formula: four onions, bitter rue leaves, water parsley.

1947 Econ. Bot. 1 25 During recent years Spain produced from two to twelve tons of rue oil annually.

2001 J. B. Harborne & H. Baxter Chem. Dict. Econ. Plants 87/2 Rue oil. Steam distillation of the fresh herb of Ruta graveolens.