释义 |
swine's grass Also 3 swines gres, 5 swynegrece, swynesgarce, 6 swyne gyrs; 7 swine-grasse. [Cf. local G. schweingras.] Knotgrass, Polygonum aviculare; also, locally, ragwort, Senecio Jacobæa. (Cf. swine's cress.)
12..Herbarium in MS. Bodl. 130 lf. 42 b, Swines gres [in another hand blod[w]ert .i. suines gres]. c1450Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 38/1 Centinodium, populus uel popluus, longam habet hastam et gracilem et folia longa. angl. swynegrece uel cattesgres. Ibid. 104/1 Lingua passeris, poligonia, proserpinata, centinodium idem. angl. swynesgarce. 1538Turner Libellus, Poligonon... Hanc uulgus appellat swyne gyrs, & knotgyrs. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. clxi. 452 Knot grasse..is giuen vnto swine..when they are sicke..whereupon the countrie people do call it Swines grasse, and Swines skir [? swineskirs = swine's cress]. a1697Aubrey's MS. (Royal Soc.) 12 (Britten & Holl.) Raggewort (Jacobæa) vulgò Swine-grasse growes..plentifully in good ground from Notts to the Bishopricke of Durham. a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 331 Poligona, knot-grass, swine's-grass, or blood-wort..is very pernicious to sheep. |