单词 | straight vervain |
释义 | > as lemmasstraight vervain a. The tall perennial European plant Verbena officinalis (family Verbenaceae), having toothed leaves and spikes of small mauve flowers, (formerly) sometimes regarded as having therapeutic or magical properties. More fully common vervain, †straight vervain, †upright vervain. Cf. verbena n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > vervain berbineeOE ironhardOE vervain?a1300 verbena?a1425 columbinec1450 holy herb1567 Juno's tears1597 pigeon's grass1597 simpler's joy1754 α. β. a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 329 (MED) Medicyns þat ben symple, coold & drie..veruene, Semper viua..Acetosa.1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 64 Veruen, of some after their language is called Holy Herbe.1591 T. Lodge Famous Life Duke of Normandy f. 2v Thou art like the veruen..poyson one wayes, and pleasure an other.1651 Vicary's Surgion's Directorie 276 Take Bitton, Verven, Selondine, Waybroad, Rewe, Wall-woort and Sage.1749 T. Short Gen. Chronol. Hist. Air II. 521 Or a Decoction of Verven, Marjoram, Hysop, Maidenhair, Calamint, Bugloss, Flowers of Elder.γ. a1425 (a1399) Forme of Cury (BL Add.) 180 in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 138 Take persel, myntes, sauerey & sauge, tansey, veruayn [?a1425 Bühler 36 ferbayn]..hewe hem & grinde hem smale.1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 125 Verbena recta,..Upright or straight Veruayne.1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 580 There be two kindes of Veruaine as Pliny saith, the male, and the female; or as others affirme, vpright, and creeping.1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xxii. 439 Vervain..is good against Tertian and Quartan Agues.1759 W. Mason Caractacus 9 Lift your boughs of vervain blue, Dipt in cold September dew.1760 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. 20 The Druids also looked upon vervain, and some other plants as holy.1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. viii. 226 You have used neither charm,..magic mirror, or geomantic figure. Where be..your May-fearn, your vervain?1900 N. Blanchan Nature's Garden 41 Ages before Christians ascribed healing virtues to the vervain—found growing on Mount Calvary, and therefore possessing every sort of miraculous power, according to the logic of simple peasant folk—the Druids had counted it among their sacred plants.1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) IV. 2211/2 V[erbena] officinalis. Vervain, Pigeon's Grass.2007 It's Fate Apr. 13/2 Grow vervain in the garden or house, as it'll draw money and prosperity to you.δ. ?a1425 (?1373) Lelamour Herbal (1938) f. 85v (MED) Take vervyne, betayne, mylfoly, and wyne; drinke the juis.a1500 in W. L. Braekman Of Hawks & Horses (1986) 81 (MED) Take a pynte off rede wyn lyes, and a handfull off whete branne..and half an handfull off vervyn..and make a playster þer off and ley hit to as hote as the horse may suffyr hit.1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 162 The second kinde of Veruine... The leaues of thys..are good agaynst..serpentes.?1610 J. Fletcher Faithfull Shepheardesse ii. sig. D1v And thou light Varuin to, thou must goe after Prouoking easie soules to mirth and laughter.1802 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border II. 371 Gin ye wish to be leman mine, Lay off the St. John's wort and the vervine.?a1300 in S. G. Hamilton Catal. MSS Worcester Cathedral (1906) 185 Verbena, verveyne. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 4039 (MED) Tok sche fieldwode and verveyne, Of herbes ben noght betre tueine. c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 64 Vitriol..made with Iuyse of moleyn, or of plantayne, or verueyn. a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) 1056 Herbis..as..Verbayn, Lunarye, and Mortagon. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Verveine masle, Male Verueine, straight or vpright Verueine, common Verueine. 1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden xviii. 38 The late Witch of Salisbury, who sent her Ruffian-like spirits to gather Vervein and Dill. 1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i. Verbena, the Herb Vervein. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1210/1 The common name of Verbena officinalis,..Vervein, our only native species. 1874 A. O'Shaughnessy Music & Moonlight 161 Between the pathway and the wood She seemed to make a softer clime For vervein, violet, and thyme. 1909 W. S. Furneaux Field & Woodland Plants xiii. 196 In the order Verbenaceæ we have the common Vervein (Verbena officinalis), a common plant in the dry wastes of the South of England. 2010 S. Malicote Image & Imagination ii. 49 Vervein, for example, has received recent study as a ‘wonder drug’. < as lemmas |
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