| 单词 | waybread leaf |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswaybread leaf waybread leaf n. now historical and rare a leaf of a plantain, esp. Plantago major; (chiefly Scottish (now Shetland)) (in singular and plural) the plant itself. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Plantaginaceae > [noun] waybreadeOE ribeOE psylliumOE waybread leafOE plantaina1325 herb Ivec1386 ersworta1400 psyllya1425 flea-seed1562 buck's-horn plantain1578 fleabane1578 hartshorn1578 lamb's tongue1578 rose plantain1597 rose ribwort1597 globularia1728 fire-leaves1796 ribwort1846 hoary plantain1861 goatweed1864 hartshorn plantain- OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) ii. 42 Wiþ muþes wunde genim wegbrædan leaf [?a1200 Harl. 6258B webræde leaf] & hyre seaw, gnid tosomne, hafa ðonne swiþe lange on þinum muðe & et ðone wyrtwalan. ?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 13 Nim webradeleaf ar sunne upgange. c1450 Med. Recipes (BL Add. 33996) in F. Heinrich Mittelengl. Medizinbuch (1896) 141 (MED) Ley aweybrode lef aboue þe bak syde toward þe sore. 1599 ‘T. Cutwode’ Caltha Poetarum (Roxb.) cxvii And with a Wabret leafe he made a wallet. 1609 in T. Craig-Brown Hist. Selkirkshire (1886) I. 180 Being demandit if she gave drinks, she answered she gave nane bot off Waburne leavis for the hart-axes. 1623 Sel. Rec. Presbytery Lanark (Abbotsford Club) 1 She appoyntit thame the wayburne leaf to be eattin nyne morningis. 1651 Read's Med. & Remedies 110 Take Smallage, Southernwood, House-leek, Violet-leaves, and Roots, and Waybroad-leaves, of each a good quantity. 1803 J. Leyden Scenes of Infancy i. 101 The wabret leaf, that by the pathway grew. 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 202 I thought the grey whin was gaun frae below me—it shook like a wabron-leaf. 1831 W. Patrick Pop. Descr. Plants Lanarkshire 94 Greater Plantain... The leaves (vulgarly called the Wayburn-leaf) are spread on the ground. 1931 J. R. Nicolson Shetland Incidents & Tales xv. 103 For a suppurating sore the common application was a ‘waaverin leaf’. 2012 J. Borodale Knot vi. ii. 338 At the bottom is what, at first, I took to be a waybread leaf. < as lemmas |
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