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smallage|ˈsmɔːlɪdʒ|
Forms: α. 3 smal, 4 smale ache, 5–6 smalache, 5–7 -ach, 6–7 smallach(e. β. 5 smalege, -edge, 6–7 smalledge, 7 -adge, 6– smallage.
[f. small a. 21 b + ache n.2]
One or other of several varieties of celery or parsley; esp. wild celery or water parsley, Apium graveolens. Now rare.
αc1290St. Cuthbert 52 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 360 ‘Nim,’ he seide, ‘þe milk of one kov.., Iuys of smal-Ache do þar⁓to’. a1387Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 11 Apium simpliciter,..smale ache. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 94 Leie on þis confeccioun maad of flour of wheete & hony & ius of smalache. c1450M.E. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 101 Take smalache, reed fenel, rewe, verueyne [etc.]. 1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde 134 The decoction of rosemarye,..alexander, smallach, &c. 1578Lyte Dodoens 606 Smallache hath shyning leaues of a darke greene colour. 1603Holland Plutarch 719 Afterwards when these [Isthmian] Games were accounted, they translated thither..the chaplet of Smallach.
β14..Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 711 Hoc apium, smalege. 1530Palsgr. 271/2 Smallage an herbe, ache. 1562Turner Herbal (1568) 40 Smallage hath suche a strong savor,..that no man can..eat it with hys meate. 1636W. Denny in Ann. Dubrensia (1877) 13 Each three yeeres Victor was with Smallage crown'd, Whose pendant leaves, his head enshadow'd round. 1685Temple Ess. Gardens Wks. 1720 I. 178 The Plants he mentions, are the Apium, which tho' commonly interpreted Parsly, yet comprehends all Sorts of Smallage, whereof Sellery is one. 1712Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 2 The large Smallage, which the Gardiners falsly call Macedonian-Parsley. 1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xvii. (1794) 236 Our wild Smallage,..which is common by ditches and brooks, cannot be rendered esculent by culture. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) I. 248 The cicuta virosa, or water-hemlock, the leaves of which have been mistaken for smallage. 1876Encycl. Brit. V. 290/2 Celery,..a biennial plant..which, in its native condition, is known in England as smallage.
attrib.c1550H. Lloyd Treas. Health g iv, Smalladge rote hanged aboute thy necke doth alay the tooth ache. a1648Digby Closet Opened (1677) 130 Smallage Gruel. 1658Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 1063 Give in Wine the decoction..of the Cyprus Nut, Smallage-seed. 1853A. Soyer Pantroph. 141 When it is cooked, add pepper and smallage seed. |