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bilders Herb.|ˈbɪldəs|
Forms: 5 byllerne, billere, 6 bylders, bilders, 6–8 belders; mod. dial. bilders, billers, bellers.
[It has been shown by the Rev. A. L. Mayhew, in N. & Q. Ser. vii. III. 365, that the etymological form is (in the sing.) biller, adopted from the Irish biolar, a late variant of biorar water-cress:—OIr. biror (corresp. to Welsh berwr water-cress), f. bior, bir water, well, spring. The forms billern and billers, bilders are plural. The word appears in med.L. as berula, and is the F. berle = Sium angustifolium (Littré). It is also discussed by J. L. G. Mowat in Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.), 21, s.v. Berula.]
A name given by the old herbalists to some water plant or plants, cruciferous or umbelliferous (perh. Helosciadium or Nasturtium). In modern dialects applied locally to Water Cress, co. Derry; Water Dropwort (Œnanthe crocata), Cornwall; Cow Parsnip, Devon. See Britten and Holland.
c1425in S. B. Liljegren Agnus Castus (Essays & Studies Engl. Lang. & Lit. Upsala) (1950) VI. 138 Bursula, is an herbe þat men clepe billere{ddd}it growyȝt in water. c1440Promp. Parv. 36 Byllerne, watyr herbe, berula. 1545Elyot Dict., Lauer, an herbe growyng in the water, lyke to alysaunder, but hauyng lesse leaues. Some do call it bylders. [1548 Cooper Bibl. Eliota, bilders; 1573 ― Thesaurus, belders.] 1598Florio, Gorgogliestro, of some called..belders, or bell-rags. |