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† ˈbone-wort Obs. Forms: 1 banwyrt, 3 bonwurt, 5 banworte, 6 banwort, banwurt, banwoort, 7–8 bonewort. [OE. bánwyrt, f. bán, bone + wyrt, wort.] A name given, on account of their supposed bone-healing properties, to several different plants, as the common Daisy, Golden-Rod, Centaury (Erythræa), Yellow Mountain Pansy, Consolida minor, and Osmund Royal or Flowering Fern.
c1000Ags. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 300 Uiola aurosa et uiola purpurea, banwyrt. c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 294 Ðeos wyrt þe man violam, & oðrum naman banwyrt nemneð, ys ðreora cynna. c1265Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 556 Osmunda, osmunde, bonwurt. c1400Roy. MS. 18 A vi. f. 72 b in Promp. Parv. 52 note, Bryse-wort or bon-wort or daysye. 1483Cath. Angl. 20/1 Banworte, consolidum. 1513Douglas æneis xii. Prol. 115 In battill gyrs burgionys the banwort wyld. 1565–73Cooper Thesaur., Bellis, the whyte daysy, called of some the margarite, in the North banwoort. 1736Bailey Househ. Dict. 2 Take adder's spear, alehoof..bone-wort. |