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tansy|ˈtænzɪ|
Forms: 5 tanesey, 5–8 tansie, 5–9 tansey, 6 -sye, -say, taunsey, 7–8 tanzy, -zey, 5– tansy.
[a. OF. tanesie (13th c.), tanoisie, tenasie, mod.F. tanaisie, aphetic form of athanasie ‘the hearbe Tansie’ (Cotgr.), ad. med.L. athanasia tansy, a. Gr. ἀθανασία immortality. Cf. also It. atanási ‘Tansie or siluerwort’ (Florio 1611), atanásia the herb tansy (Baretti 1824), Pg. atanasia or athanasia, the herb tansy. Hatz.-Darm. mention also a med.L. tanasia, but without reference. But apart from this it seems clear that OF. tanesie was aphetic for atanesie, the name prob. referring to the long persistence of the flowers: cf. quot. 1597; also everlasting and F. immortelle.
Med.L. had also the name Tanacētum (now the botanical generic name) with the variants tanesetum, tansetum, tanicetum. Tanezatum and athanacetum (c 1250) are also cited by Burgess. These seem to show that athanacetum and tanesetum were latinized formations from OF. tanesie, although the force of the suffix is not clear.]
1. An erect herbaceous plant, Tanacetum vulgare, N.O. Compositæ, tribe Corymbiferæ, growing about two feet high, with deeply cut and divided leaves, and terminal corymbs of yellow rayless button-like flowers; all parts of the plant have a strong aromatic scent and bitter taste.
Formerly much used in medicine as a stomachic, and in cookery. curled tansy, a variety with curled leaves, is used, like parsley, for garnishing dishes.
[c1265Names of Plants in Wr.-Wülcker 556/17 Tanesetum, [AFr.] tanesie, [Eng.] helde. ]c1420Liber Cocorum (1862) 50 Þen grynde tansy þo iuse owte wrynge, To blynde with þo egges with owte lesynge. c1425tr. Arderne's Surgery (E.E.T.S.) 74 Porcelane, bursa pastoris, rede rose, tanesey, wormode, horsmynt. 14..Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 712/33 Hoc tansetum, tansaye. c1450Alphita 16/1 Atanasia..tanacetum idem. Hanc utuntur Salerniani et Hispanni similiter, tansie. 1538Turner Libellus, Athanasia que grece tagetes, latine tanacetum, anglice dicitur Tansey. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 67, I sau tansay, that is gude to purge the neiris. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cxcix. 526 Tansie..in Latine Tanacetum and Athanasia, as though it were immortall; because the floures do not speedily wither. 1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 124/1 Take the herbe Tansy. 1688Holme Armoury ii. 89/1 Curled Tansy, the leaves are..somewhat crumpled together. 1743Lond. & Country Brew. ii. (ed. 2) 101 Tanzy..or any other bitter Herbs. 1770Phil. Trans. LX. 10, I observed quantities of juniper and tanzey. 1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxvi. (1794) 385 Of the first section, with discoid flowers, you have the Tansy. 1838T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 478 Oil of tansey..is extracted from the leaves and flowers of the tanacetum vulgare, or common tansey... It has the peculiar flavour of tansey. 1885Ruskin Præterita I. iii. 103, I passed my days much as the thistles and tansy did.
2. a. Applied to other plants, esp. the Silverweed or Goose-grass, Potentilla anserina, often distinguished as wild tansy and dog's tansy or goose tansy; also locally to Yarrow, Achillea Millefolium, and Ragwort, Senecio Jacobæa (Britten and Holl.).
[c1440Promp. Parv. 486/2 Tanze, herbe (K., P. tansy), tanasetum domesticum, quia tanazetum silvestre dicitur gosys gresse, vel cameroche.] c1530Pol., Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 36 Take wylde tansey, and grynde yt, and make yt neshe, & ley it therto, and it wyl bryng it owght. 1605Timme Quersit. iii. 181 Infused in water of silverweed, called wilde tansey. 1671Salmon Syn. Med. iii. xxii. 391 Argentina, ἀθανασία ὑλόεσσα, wilde-Tansie, stops all Fluxes whatsoever. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 312 Goose⁓grass or Wild-tansie is a Weed that strong Clays are very subject to. 1860Mayne Expos. Lex., Tansy, Wild, a common name for the Potentilla anserina, or silver-weed.
b. With distinctive additions: Cape tansy, Athanasia capitata var. glabrata; maudlin tansy, Achillea Ageratum; shrubby tansy, Tanacetum suffruticosum; white tansy, (in Lyte) Achillea nobilis of Southern Europe; erroneously applied to other plants.
c1711Petiver Gazophyl. ix. Tab. 81 Box-leaved *Cape Tansey... Leaves pale green, and thick set round the Stalk.
1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. iv. 84 Ageratum. *Maudlin Tansy. 1855Dunglison Dict. Med. (ed. 12), M[audlin] Tansey, Achillea ageratum.
1578Lyte Dodoens i. x. 17 There be two sortes of Tansie. The one great and yellow, the other small and white... Tanacetum minus, *White Tansie..The second groweth in some places of Italie; in this countrey ye shall not finde it but in the gardens of certayne Herboristes. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 72/1 The White Tansie, or Agrimony..is a short shrub of no height.
3. a. A pudding, omelet, or the like, flavoured with juice of tansy: see also 5. arch. or dial.
Said to have been eaten at Easter in memory of the ‘bitter herbs’ of the Passover.
c1450Two Cookery-bks. 86 Tansey. Take faire Tansey, and grinde it in a morter; And take eyren, yolkes and white, And drawe hem thorgh a streynour, and streyne also þe Iuse of þe Tansey..; and medle the egges and the Iuse togidre [etc.]. 1513Bk. Keruynge A vj b, A tansye fryed, & other bake metes. c1530Caroll in Anglia XII. 588 At Easter commeth alleluya With butter cheese and a tansay. 1561Hollybush Hom. Apoth. 18 Let him take Neppe that cattes delite in..and make a taunsey thereof. a1601? Marston Pasquil & Kath. i. 154 There's but two Lambs,..three tartes, and foure tansies, for supper. 1621Fletcher Pilgrim iii. vi, They [eggs] shall be all addle, And make an admirable tanzey for the devil. 1634–5Brereton Trav. (Chetham Soc.) 69 A dainty tansy of gooseberries. 1652Culpepper Eng. Physic. 17 A Tansie or Caudle made with eggs and the juyce thereof while it is young, putting to it some Sugar and Rose⁓water. 1666Pepys Diary 20 Apr., And there spent an houre or two with pleasure with her, and eat a tansy. 1748Mrs. Sarah Harrison Housekpr.'s Pocket-Bk. iii. (ed. 4) 11 Trotters, To be served up as a Tanzey. 1754–6Connoisseur No. 48 (1767) II. 95 Mince-pie..is as essential to Christmas, as..tansy to Easter. 1787Best Angling (ed. 2) 60 If you can catch enough of them they make an excellent tansy, their heads and tails being cut off; and fried in eggs. 1837Disraeli Venetia i. iv, A Florentine tourte, or tansy.
b. A merrymaking or festive gathering; a village feast held on Shrove Tuesday. dial. See Eng. Dial. Dict.
†4. Phrase. like a tansy: properly, fittingly, perfectly; perfect. Obs. [Origin unascertained.]
1611Beaum. & Fl. King & No K. v. i, To have a Leg broken, or a Shoulder out, with being turn'd o' th' Stones like a Tansie. 1694Motteux Rabelais iv. xxii, That's well said,..now this is something like a Tanzy [orig. C'est bien dit et advisé]. 1738Swift Pol. Conversat. i. 89 Miss. Look, Lady Answerall, is it not well mended? Lady Ans. Ay, this is something like a tanzy. 1759Sterne Tr. Shandy II. vi, I would work..like a horse, and make fortifications for you something like a tansy.
5. attrib. and Comb., as tansy flower, tansy leaf, tansy tea; tansy-leaved adj.; tansy-cake, tansy-pudding, culinary preparations appropriate to Easter; tansy-faced a., having a yellow complexion; tansy mustard: see quot.; tansy oil, the essential oil of tansy.
c1420Liber Cocorum (1862) 50 For a *tansy cake. Breke egges in bassyn..þen grynde tansy [etc.]. 1725Bourne Antiq. Vulg. xxiv. 198 Recreations and Diversions on Easter Holy Days,..playing at Hand-Ball for a Tanzy-Cake. 1777Brand Pop. Antiq. 253 The winning a Tanzy Cake at the Game of Hand-Ball, depends chiefly upon Swiftness of Foot. 1894R. O. Heslop Northumb. Gloss., Tansy-cake, a girdle-cake flavoured with tansy.
1624Middleton Game at Chess v. iii, A sun-burnt, *tansy-fac'd belov'd.
1905Daily Chron. 18 Oct. 4/5 A pond, lying deep among *tansy flowers.
1822Hortus Anglicus II. 181 S[isymbrium] Tanacetifolium, *Tansey leaved Wild Rocket. 1882Garden 12 Aug. 145/3 The Tansy-leaved Thorn.
1856A. Gray Man. Bot. (1860) 36 S[isymbrium] canescens,..*Tansy Mustard.
1894Muir & Morley Watts' Dict. Chem. IV. 638/1 *Tansy Oil, the essential oil obtained by distillation of the tansy contains 1 p.c. of a terpene C10H16, 26 p.c. of an alcohol C10H18O, and 70 p.c. of tanacetyl hydride C10H16O.
1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 177 A *Tansey Pudding of ground Rice. 1771H. Walpole Let. 5 Aug., There are three or four very high hills,..exactly in the shape of a tansy pudding. 1908Daily Chron. 18 Apr. 7/5 Chester still clings to its Tansy pudding, symbolical of the bitter herb commanded at the paschal feast.
1893–4R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words II. 718 *Tansy-tea, an infusion of the herb. 1902Spectator 12 Apr. 546/1 Patent pills and soothing syrups have taken the place of calamint and tansy tea. 1965M. Thomas Grannies' Remedies 26 Hysterics... Strong tansy tea, taken cold and in small quantities, is good. |