单词 | stavesacre |
释义 | stavesacren. A plant of the species Delphinium Staphisagria (N.O. Ranunculaceæ), native in southern Europe and Asia Minor; the seeds of this plant, used to destroy vermin, and formerly as an emetic. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding poison > [noun] > stavesacre stavesacrea1400 filander1575 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > emetic > plant-based stavesacrea1400 vomiting nut1575 Paraguay herb1717 violine1829 violina1836 lobelia1849 gillenin1856 viola1868 a1400 Stockholm Med. MS. 156 Scafisage scafisagia. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 184 Herof we moun do þerto sal gemme, sulphuris, euforbij ana g.ij. staphisagrie, cantaridarum ana gj. 14.. Bk. Hawking (Harl. 2340) in Rel. Ant. (1841) I. 297 Take a greyn of staphisagre, and put under her [a hawk's] tong, and she shall caste. 14.. Bk. Hawking (Harl. 2340) in Rel. Ant. (1841) I. 300 Take scapysagre, and sethe it in water. c1440 Pallad. on Husb. i. 596 As staphisagre, minget in theire mete Wol hele her tong. a1475 Bk. Quinte Essence (1889) 20 Medle it wiþ a good quantite of poudre of stafi-sagre. 1538 W. Turner Libellus de re Herbaria at Staphis agria Stauesacre. 1547 A. Boorde Breuiary of Helthe (1870) 87 Take..of Stauysacre made in fyne pouder, halfe an vnce. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. xxxix. 372 Staphisacre, especially the seede, is hoate almost in the fourth degree. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe Ep. Ded. sig. A2v Looke how much Tobacco wee carry with vs to expell cold, the like quantitie of Staues-aker wee must prouide vs of to kill lice in that rugged countrey of rebels. 1611–12 Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 198 For stassaker to John Leighe, ijd. 1630 J. Taylor Goose in Wks. i. 105/1 Mix'd with Stauesacre, and Argentum viue, It will not leaue a man a Lowse aliue. 1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece iv. 290 Staphys agria, or Staves-acre. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Delphinium Larkspur with a Plane-Tree Leaf, commonly call'd Stavesacre, or Lousewort. 1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum 330 Pound burnt cummin and staphisager of each equal quantities and mix it with wine. 1757 J. Dyer Fleece i. 19 Th' infectious scab..is by water cur'd Of lime, or sodden stave-acre. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 648 The most fatal poisons to all these vermin are the mercurial oxydes, staphisacre, [etc.]. 1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 246 A pound of stavesacre furnishes from 55 to 60 grains of delphina. 1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 769 Stavesacre is a native of the South of Europe, and of the Mediterranean islands. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.a1400 |
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