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orpine, orpin|ˈɔːpɪn|
Also 7 orpent.
[a. F. orpin (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), in same senses, app. some kind of altered form of orpiment.]
†1. = orpiment. Obs.
1548Elyot, Auripigmentum,..a coulour lyke golde, in englysshe Orpine. 1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 66 Eech path was fulsoom with sent of sulphurus orpyn. 1675E. Wilson Spadacr. Dunelm. 36 There's no smell of Sulphur, as is when Antimony, Orpin, or Marcasites, are calcin'd. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Rabet, Take some Powder of Orpine and Brimstone.
fig.1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. ii. xcii. (1674) 246 With a little Orpine of affected goodness, they can cover..wicked vices.
2. A succulent herbaceous plant, Sedum Telephium, with smooth fleshy leaves and corymbs of numerous purple flowers; a native of Britain, and also a well-known inmate of the cottage garden, being esteemed as a vulnerary. From its tenacity of life, one of its popular names is live-long.
The connexion between this and the preceding sense is not clear; it has been conjectured that the name orpine was given first on account of their colour to one or more of the yellow stonecrops, was extended to the genus Sedum as a whole, and was subseq. restricted to S. Telephium. In support of this, Littré gives orpin as a generic name for Sedum, and calls S. Telephium, orpin reprise, and S. acre (Wall Pepper) orpin âcre; but Hatzfeld and Darmesteter know only the former as orpin.
a1387Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 17 Crassula major, aurum valet, anglice orpin. c1440Promp. Parv. 371/1 Orpyn, herbe, crassula major, et media dicitur howsleek et minima dicitur stoncrop. 1530Palsgr. 250/1 Orpyn an herbe, orpyn. 1555Eden Decades 135 An herbe muche lyke vnto that which is commonly cauled Sengrene or Orpin. 1590Spenser Muiopotmos 193 Coole Violets, and Orpine growing still. 1615Markham Eng. Housew. ii. i. (1668) 37 Take of Orpents, Smallage, Ragwort,..of each a good handful. 1647C. Harvey Schola Cordis xxx. 44 Orpin never waxing old. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Fly, Put some Hellebore with Orpin into Milk, and moisten the Place the Flies pitch upon. 1854S. Dobell Balder xi, Livelong orpine that cannot die. |