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† sinople Obs.
Also 5 cinople, 6–7 synople, 8 senople.
[a. OF. sinople (cf. Sp. sinople, Pg. sinopla, It. sin-, senopia), ad. L. Sinōpis, a. Gr. σινωπίς, f. σινώπη: see Sinopic a.]
1. = sinoper 1.
c1450Lydgate's Chron. Troy ii. (1555) xi. 964 Green Depeynt with asure, golde, cinople, & grene. 1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 98 The Parret hath all hir whole bodie greene, sauing that..she hath a Coller or Chaine naturally wrought like to Sinople or Vermelon. 1569J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 159 From hence came the temperatures of Asure, of Cinnaber, of Sinople, of Purple.
attrib.1552Huloet, Synople coulour or redde.
2. = sinoper 2.
1548Elyot, Miniaria, the place where synople is dygged. Ibid., Minium, synople or redde leade. 1611Cotgr., Minion, Synople, red lead, Vermillion. 1683Pettus Fleta Min. ii. 7 The Common Armoniack he [Pliny] calls Synoper (and we Synople).
3. The colour green; spec. in Her., vert.
The origin of this use (prominent in French) is not apparent. In quot. 1838–9 used as if the name of a charge.
1489Caxton Faytes of A. iv. xvii. 280 That other coloure of armoyrie is grene that men calle sinople or verte. 1602Palmerin of Eng. ii. lxii, In this was pictured in a field of Sinople the lively and naturall forme of the Princesse. 1611Cotgr., Synople, Sinople; Greene, in Blazon. 1728Chambers Cycl., Sinople or Senople, in Heraldry, the Green Colour in Armories. [1838–9Thackeray Major Gahagan iv, The well known device of Holkar, argent and or gules, between a sinople of the first, a chevron truncated, wavy.]
b. attrib. or as adj. Of a green colour.
1590Lodge Euphues' Gold. Legacy O 2 b, The Sinople tree, whose blossomes delight the smell. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry i. i. (1660) 5 They beare three Toades, Sable, in a Field Vert, alias Sinople. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Sonnets xliv, The delightful Green Of your fair radiant Een,..Sinople Lamps of Jove. 1698Froger Voy. 116 A White Flag with a Sinople or green Cross in it.
4. Min. A variety of ferruginous quartz.
1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 313, 4th Family [of Siliceous Genus]—Sinople. It is said to contain 18 per ct. of iron. 1798Jameson Min. Shetland Isles 34 Frequently also considerable veins of red sinople, intermixed with chalcedony.., run in this rock. 1836T. Thomson Min., Geol., etc. I. 71 Sinople, ribbon jasper, Egyptian jasper. |