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† ˈtol-me-ˈneer Obs.
Also (? erron.) tolmeiner, tol(l)meyner.
[app. = toll (= draw or attract) me near: see toll v.1, and cf. Colmenier.]
A name for the Sweet William.
1578Lyte Dodoens ii. viii. 157 The floures grow at the toppe of the stalkes, many clustering togither after the manner of Tol-me-neers, or sweete Williams. Ibid. xiii. 334 They..are taken for Sweete Williams or Tolmeyners. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. clxxiv. §4. 480 [The great Sweete William and the narrow leafed Sweete William are called] sweete Williams, Tolmeiners, and London Tuftes. 1629Parkinson Paradisus 320 Armerius, or Armeria... In some places they call the broader leafed kindes that are not spotted, Tolmeiners, and London tufts; but the speckled kinde is termed by our English Gentlewomen, for the most part, London pride. |