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† margeline Obs.
Also 7 margellane, mareleyne, morgeline.
[Corruption of F. morgeline ‘ivie Chickweed, Henne-bit; also, the small, or fine Chickweed; also, Pimpernel’ (Cotgr.).
Cooper 1565 (s.v. Anagallis) gives margelina as Latin. F. morgeline is:—L. morsus gallinæ, lit. ‘hen's bite’ (cf. henbit).]
The Scarlet Pimpernel, Anagallis arvensis.
1572Huloet (ed. Higins), Margeline an herbe, asyla. 1601Holland Pliny II. 234 They haue recourse..to an herbe for remedy called in Greeke Asyla, and by vs in Latine Ferus oculus (i. the wild and cruell eie, or Margellane). 1611Cotgr., Mauvais œil, Ivie Chickweed, Morgeline, Henbit. 1648Hexham, Roodt Guychelheyl, Red Mareleyne, an herbe. 1783Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (ed. Morell) v, Asyla,..an herb wherewith cattle cure themselves, when they have eaten of pimpernel, or margeline. |