† senvyn.
Obsolete.
1. The mustard plant: see mustard n. 2.
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mustard seed?1523
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a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 554/9 Sinapium, i. seneuel, i. senei.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. clv. 1050 Senuey hatte sinapis and haþ þat name of syn, þat is ‘liche’, and napis ‘and [read an] nepe’, for it is liche to an nepe in leues.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 349/1 Mustard, or warlok, or se(n)vyne, herbe (MS. S. senwyn), sinapis.
1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 76v Q. Beareth Argent and verte..6 leafes de Senuye d'Or.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. lv. 618 There be two sortes of Senuie, the tame & the wilde, wherof also the tame or garden Senuie is of two sortes.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. lv. 619 The seconde kinde of tame Mustarde..whiche is the blacke Mustarde & common Senuy.
1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health xxviii. 44 Senuie..bringeth foorth that seede whereof mustard is made.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 190 Common Mustarde, or fielde Senuie.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. xxxvi. 244 Senuie or mustard delighteth in a fat ground.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xx. xxii. 73 The hearbe Senvey, whereof there be three kinds.
1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry ii. ii. 267 The wheat seemed to have disappeared, to make room for a prodigious quantity of senvy which looked extremely well.
1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 85 Zenvy, wild mustard.
2. = mustard seed n. 1a.
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mustard seed1352
senvyc1384
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xiii. 31 The kyngdam of heuenes is like to a corn of seneuey.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xvii. 19 Ȝif ȝe shulen haue feith, as a corn of seneuey.
c1422 T. Hoccleve Min. Poems 240 If yee haue as mochil feith as is the greyn of Senefee.
a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 85 I putte noȝt..in..ouer þe quantite of a corne of senvey.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 610 Senvy let sowe hit now.
c1440 Gesta Romanorum 41 If ye haue feith, as moche as hath þe corn of synewey.
1505 Will of Robert Jerard (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/14) f. 271 Beryng yerely to the heyre a pownd of Senvye.
1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 86 He that in suche wyse will vomite, let him eate hastyly..town~keris, rokat, synuy, or purslane.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. lv. 619 The Mustarde, especially the seede which men cal Senuie, is hoate and dry, almost in the fourth degree.
1604 Rates Marchandizes sig. L4v Garble of Seny the pound ii.d.
Compounds
senvy-seed n. = mustard seed n. 1a.
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mustard seed1352
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1298 in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (1866) (modernized text) II. 174/2 Seneueyseed.
a1400 Sloane MS. 5 lf. 11/2 Sinapis, tam semen quam herba..A(nglice) Seneuy sed.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. viii. 149 A sester and a semycicle take Of senuey seed.
c1450 Middle Eng. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 212 Seneueye seed.
1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xx. f. 172v Zenuy sede ones sowed wyll neuer almoste oute of the grounde.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Sinapi, senuie seede wherof mustarde is made.
1606 F. Holyoake Riders Dict. (new ed.) sig. Dddij Sinape,..seenie seed.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 518 White Sceny-seede..being put into broath..will..procure her milke.
1678 A. Littleton Linguæ Latinæ Liber Dictionarius Sinape,..seeny seed... Eng.-Lat., Senvie seed.
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