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metel|ˈmiːtəl|
Also 6 methel.
[a. mod.L. methel, a. Arab. jauz māþil (where jauz means ‘nut’). Cf. F. noix met(h)elle ‘thorn-apple’ (Cotgr.), métel = sense b (Littré).]
†a. methel nut, nut methel: a narcotic fruit or seed described by Avicenna as resembling a nut covered with small spines, and also as similar to nux vomica; probably the Thorn-apple, Datura Stramonium. Obs.
b. In the form metel, applied by Linnæus as the specific name of the Hairy Thorn-apple, Datura Metel, and hence sometimes used as the Eng. name of that plant.
1528Paynel Salerne's Regim. (1541) 63 The nutte methel which, as Auicen saythe, is venomous, wherfore hit sleeth. 1568Turner Herbal iii. 49 Of the nutte called the vomitinge nutt, and of the nut of Methel. The vomitinge nut and the Methel are not in al poyntes vnlyke... Matthiolus writeth that the flat nuttes like litle cheses which haue ben solde hytherto: for vomitinge nuttes are nuttes methel, and they that haue bene hytherto vsed for methel nuttes are the righte nuces vomicæ. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. lvii. 278 The first of these Thorne apples may be called in Latin Stramonia, and Pomum or Malum spinosum..of Serapio and others it is thought to be Nux methel: Serapio in his 375. chapter saith, that Nux methel is like vnto Nux voxima. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Metel,..the name of a sort of nux vomica, of the same shape with the common kind, but somewhat larger. 1887C. A. Moloney Forestry W. Afr. 395 Metel or Hairy Thorn Apple. |