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† hirse Obs.|hɜːs| Also 6 erron. hirst. [a. Ger. hirse, MHG. hirse, hirs, OHG. hirsi, hirso; orig. a High German word, which in later times has spread into LG. and Scand. (Da. hirse, Sw. hirs), as well as Eng., where app. introduced by the 16th c. herbalists. See Kluge.] Millet.
[1562Turner Herbal ii. 57 Milium is named in Greke kegchros & piston, in Duche hirsz, in Frenche du Millet.] 1578Lyte Dodoens iv. ix. 463 This plant [Milium] is called in..English Mill, Millet, and Hirse. 1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 77 A Vessell or Pan wherein they did fry millet or hirse. 1589Fleming Virg. Georg. i. 8 For Millet or for Hirst comes yearly care and paine. 1611Cotgr., Millet, Millet, Mill, Hirse. 1658Phillips, Hyrse, a kind of plant otherwise call'd Millet. |