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ˈnose-bleed
[f. nose n. + stem of bleed v.]
1. The plant Miltoil or Yarrow. Also attrib.
There is no clear evidence of the name being actually current after 1600.
14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 596 Millefolium, Myllefoyle vel Noseblede. c1450Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 118/1 Miriofillos siue..millifolium,..noseblede. 1567[see milfoil 1]. 1597Gerarde Herbal 913 Of Yarrowe or Nose-bleede,..The leaues being put into the nose, do cause it to bleede. 1611Cotgr., Millefueille [sic], nose-bleed Yarrow, common Yarrow. 1657C. Beck Univ. Character M 4 b, Yarrow or nose-bleed. 1731Miller Gard. Dict., Millefolium, Yarrow, Milfoil, or Nose-bleed. 1753Chambers Cycl. Suppl. App., Nose bleed, in botany, a popular name for the Millefolium of botanical writers. 1855Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. III. 325 Several of the old names of this plant are very significant of its former uses: Souldier's Wound⁓wort, Knyghten Milfoil, and Nose-bleed.
2. A bleeding at the nose. Also fig.
1848Asmodeus (N.Y.) 73 (Th.), What's the best cure for nose-bleed, doctor? 1852–6in Wright Univ. Pron. Dict. IV. 1890 Child Ballads IV. 117/2 The omen of nose-bleed occurs in the ballad of ‘The Mother's Malison’. 1914G. S. Gordon Let. 11 Aug. (1943) 59 Germany will get the nose-bleed of her life. 1953‘J. R. Macdonald’ Imaginary Blonde in Manhunt (1964) XII. 138/1 It was a little scuffle. One of the guests suffered a nosebleed. 1960Wodehouse Jeeves in Offing xv. 161 Half way through the second act..Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright, who was playing Lord Fancourt Babberley, left the stage abruptly to attend to an unforeseen nose bleed. 1972‘L. Egan’ Paper Chase (1973) x. 160 Just a nosebleed... Somebody banged me on the nose. |