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† town-cress Obs.
Forms: see town and cress.
[OE. túncressa, f. tún garden, town + cress.]
Garden Cress (Lepidium sativum).
a700Epinal Gloss. (O.E.T.) 676 Nasturcium.., tuuncressa. c725Corpus Gloss. 1359 Tuuncressa. c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 22 ᵹenim..tun cersan, sio þe self weaxeð, & mon ne sæwð. c1420Liber Cocorum (1862) 42 Take therto Town cresses, and cresses that growene in flode. 1533Elyot Cast. Helth (1541) 90 Let him eate hartyly small radysshe rootes, townkersis,..or purslane. 1578Lyte Dodoens i. lxiv. 96 The Swines Cresses..is hoate and dry, like to garden or towne Cressis. Ibid v. lix. 623. 1615 Markham Eng. Housew. ii. i. (1668) 30 Take the powder of Town cress dried. 1620Venner Via Recta vii. 158 Towne-Cresses, or as the vulgar sort doe pronounce, Town-karsse, is more byting in taste then Rocket. |