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spurrey, spurry|ˈspʌrɪ|
Forms: 6 sperie, 6–7 spury, 6– spurry, 7– spurrey.
[a. Du. spurrie (MDu. sporie; older Flem. speurie, spurie; WFris. sparje, sparre), prob. related in some way to med.L. spergula (whence G. spergel, spörgel, etc.).]
1. One or other of various species of herbaceous plants or weeds belonging to the genus Spergula, characterized by slender stems and very narrow leaves; esp. the common species corn spurrey (S. arvensis), occas. used as fodder for sheep and cattle; also, the genus to which these species belong.
α1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. 38 b, The common people call it Spury, or Sperie. Ibid. 39 Such thinges as neede not muche moysture, are best sowed in lyght ground, as the great Clauer, Sperie, Chich. 1651R. Child in Hartlib's Legacy (1655) 71 So we are ignorant what their Far or fine Bread Corn was, what their Lupine, Spury, and an hundred of this kind.
β1578Lyte Dodoens 56 Spurry hath round stalkes, with three or foure knots or ioyntes. 1611Cotgr., Spurrie, Spurrie, or Franke; a Dutch hearbe, and an excellent fodder for cattell. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Spergula,..an Herb call'd Spurry, or Frank; Wood-rose, a kind of Liver-wort. 1799W. Tooke View Russian Emp. III. 192 The pastures are richly furnished with spurry and golden clover. 1837Flemish Husb. 37 in Husb. III. (L.U.K.), Spurry..is a plant which grows very rapidly in light sandy soils. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. III. 28/1 Spurry..is used on the Continent as a winter food for sheep.
γ1671Phillips (ed. 3), Spurrey, a sort of herb called in Latin Spergula. 1683Lond. Gaz. No. 1806/4 An excellent new sort of Grass-Seeds, called Spurrey. 1764Museum Rust. IV. 45 Spurrey, by them [sc. Flemings] called Marian⁓grasse. 1766Compl. Farmer, Spurrey, the name of a weed common in many parts of England. 1837Flemish Husb. 14 in Husb. III. (L.U.K.), Those [seeds] which grow rapidly between the reaping of one crop and the sowing of another, such as spurrey or turnips. 1880Jefferies Hodge & Masters I. 27 The spurrey that filled the spaces between the stalks below.
b. With distinguishing terms (see quots. and 2).
1640Parkinson Theat. Bot. 562 Both the Dutch and we in England call it Spurry or Franck Spurry, for the causes aforesaid, but I do a little more explaine the names, in calling it Francking Spurrewort. 1688Holme Armorie ii. 98 Francking Spurry, or Spurwort. 1756Hill Hist. Plants 185 Among the other useful plants cultivated in the neighbouring countries is the common spurrey. 1771Encycl. Brit. III. 621/1 Spergula arvensis, or corn-spurrey. Ibid., Spergula pentandria, or small spurrey.
c. attrib., as spurrey-sandwort, spurrey-seed.
1644G. Plattes in Hartlib's Legacy (1655) 257 The Spurry-seed which you have gotten out of the Low-Countries. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 31 In the Low-Countries they usually sowe Spurrey-seed twice in a Summer. 1736Bailey Househ. Dict. s.v. Poultry, When fowls are near their laying-time, spurry seed, and buck wheat is an excellent strengthening for them. 1856A. Gray Man. Bot. (1860) 61 Spergularia, Spurrey-Sandwort... Low herbs, growing on or near the sea-coast. 1894Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. June 329 Adulterated..with spurry and other weed seeds.
d. pl. Plants of this genus.
1882Grant Allen Colours of Flowers ii. 39 Stitchworts..and cornspurries.., which have open flowers of a very primitive character.
2. Applied, with distinguishing terms, to various species of plants allied to or resembling (and some formerly classed with) the genus Spergula (see quots.).
1828Sir J. E. Smith Engl. Flora II. 339 Spergula saginoides. Smooth *Awl-shaped Spurrey. 1842Penny Cycl. XXII. 333/2 Spergula saginoides, pearl-wort spurrey, and S. subulata, awl-shaped spurrey, are also natives of Great Britain. 1858A. Irvine Handbk. Brit. Plants 768 Sagina saxatilis... Smooth Awl-shaped Spurrey. 1887*Field Spurrey [see sandwort spurrey].
1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Alsine, The chickweed called the *greater spurry.
1771Encycl. Brit. III. 621/1 Spergula nodosa, or *knotted spurrey.
1891Cent. Dict. s.v., Knotted spurry, more properly called knotted pearlwort, is Sagina nodosa. The *lawn⁓spurry (or properly lawn-pearlwort) is Sagina glabra.
1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVII. 688/1 Spergula saginoides, *pearl⁓wort spurrey, has smooth, linear, opposite leaves.
1777Jacob Cat. Plants 111 Arenaria rubra, *Purple Spurrey. 1796Withering Brit. Pl. (ed. 3) II. 422 Arenaria rubra,..Purple Spurrey, or Sandwort, [grows in] sandy meadows and corn⁓fields.
1866Treas. Bot. 1089/1 *Sand Spurry. Spergularia.
1887Cassell's Encycl. Dict. s.v. Spergularia, Two [species] are British: Spergularia rubra, Field, and S. marina, Sea⁓side *Sandwort Spurrey. Both have red flowers.
1756Hill Hist. Plants 185/2 There is another species, the common *sea spurrey. 1777Jacob Cat. Plants 110 Arenaria marina, Small flowered Sea-spurrey. |