† silern.
Botany. Obsolete.
1. With the epithet mountain: An umbelliferous plant of the genus Seseli.Given without the distinguishing epithet in Crabb Technol. Dict. (1823) and Treasury Bot. (1866).
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1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.ijv Seseli massiliense is called in the Poticaries shoppes, siler montanum, it may be called in englishe, siler mountayne.
1551 W. Turner Herball (1568) i. 4 Dronken with syler mountayne and Frenche spykenarde.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 348 The Mountaine-Siler helpeth Goates to yean.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 300 Some vse Syler of the mountaines to procure conception in Mares and Cowes.
1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 344 Take..Siler mountain, one dram.
2. A species of willow or osier.The originally sense of Latin siler; apparently never current in English.
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water willow1583
goat's willow1597
rose willow1597
sweet willow1597
French willow1601
siler1607
palm-withy1609
sallowie1610
swallowtail willow1626
willow bay1650
black willow1670
crack-willow1670
grey willow1697
water sallow1761
almond willowa1763
swallow-tailed willow1764
swamp willow1765
golden osier1772
golden willow1772
purple willow1773
sand-willow1786
goat willow1787
purple osier1797
whipcord1812
Arctic willow1818
sage-willow1846
pussy willow1851
Kilmarnock willow1854
sweet-bay willow1857
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palm willow1869
Spaniard1871
ground-willow1875
Spanish willow1875
snap-willow1880
diamond willow1884
sandbar willow1884
pussy palm1886
creeping willow1894
bat-willow1907
cricket bat willow1907
silver willow1914
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1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 255 The roote of the greater Siler decocted in Goats milke.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word). ]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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ˈsiler
ˈsiler n. a milk-strainer (cf. siling-dish n.).
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1856 G. Henderson Pop. Rhymes Berwick 82 He handed her the milk-strainer, the milsey, or seiler.
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