单词 | wartwort |
释义 | wartwortn. A name for Euphorbia Helioscopia, E. Peplus, and E. Peplis (Sea Wartwort). Also applied to other plants, as Chelidonium majus and Senebiera coronopus. (Cf. wart-weed n. at wart n. Compounds 2.) ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > names applied to various plants or parts boneworteOE springworteOE atterlothec1000 halswortc1000 bruisewortOE motherworta1200 panax?a1200 bloodworta1300 serpentinea1400 tutsana1400 wartworta1400 wormseeda1400 grace of God?c1400 nailworta1425 Gratia Dei?c1425 sanguinaryc1440 panacea1522 parthenium1548 woundwort1548 wart-weed1573 cardiaca1578 hermodactyl1578 panacea1590 holy seed1597 whitlow-grass1597 feverwort1611 fever and ague root1676 rattlesnake root1682 snake-root1712 cancer root1714 fever-root1739 strongback1739 rheumatism root1835 heal-all1853 wound-weed1857 a1400 MS. Arund. 42 f. 67 Þe same erbe [‘Eliotropia’] is called verrucaria, wrotwort, by cause þat it destruyth & fordoth wrottys. c1450 Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 9 Anabulla,..wartwort. c1450 Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 185 Titimallis,..wertewert. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. F.iv Peplis..is very like vnto wartwort but that it is shorter, thicker and spred vpon the grounde. It may be..called in english sea wartwurt. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 154v This kinde is called..Wartwurt; it maye also be called son spourge. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. xxxii. 363 Peplos..is called..Wartwurt,..also Pety Spurge. 1665 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια (ed. 2) 464 Sea wart-wort, see Sea spurge. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique Petyt-Spurg, otherwise called Wartwort. 1802 G. V. Sampson Statist. Surv. Londonderry App. 21 Sun-spurge, or wartwort; the juice is white, caustic, and is applied successfully to take off warts. 1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 172/2 The spurge or wartwort..yields a milky juice applicable for the purpose [of tempera-painting]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.a1400 |
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