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† mackenboy Obs.
Also 7 mackenbory, mackinboy, makimboy, 7–9 makinboy.
[a. Irish meacan buidhe (an t-sleibhe) ‘yellow root (of the mountain)’.]
An Irish spurge (Euphorbia hiberna) said to have powerful purgative properties.
1652Hartlib's Legacie (ed. 2) App., Interrogatory, Maccamboy. Whether there be such a thing at all, that this herb should purge the body meerly by external touch, or whether it be a fable, [etc.]? 1670Ray Catal. Plant. Angliæ 299 Tithymalus Hibernicus, Makinboy. 1672Petty Pol. Anat. (1691) 111 What is said of the Herb Mackenbory is fabulous. 1678Phillips, Mackenboy, or Makimboy, a kind of Spurge with a knotty Root, growing naturally in Ireland, which being but carried about one, causeth the party to go often to stool. 1687Ashe in Phil. Trans. XX. 294 The famous Irish Herb called Mackenboy. 1816–20T. Green Univ. Herbal I. 543 Euphorbia Hibernica, Irish Spurge... Native of Ireland..where it is known by the name of makinboy. |