单词 | common agrimony |
释义 | > as lemmascommon agrimony 1. Any of various plants constituting the genus Agrimonia (family Rosaceae), comprising perennial herbaceous flowering plants native chiefly to temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere; esp. (more fully common agrimony) A. eupatoria, with small, serrated pinnate leaves and spikes of yellow flowers; (formerly also) †a medicinal preparation of this plant (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > agrimony or lady's mantle or burnet agrimonyeOE padelion?a1300 burnetc1400 sindaw1548 liverwort1566 great sanicle1578 lady's mantle1578 pimpernel1578 goose-chite1597 philanthropos1597 Poterium1597 lion's foot1611 salading-burnet1766 burnet blood-wort1776 dew-cup1799 sanguisorb1846 salad burnet1854 eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. ii. 37 Genim agrimonian, welle swiþe oþ þriddan dæl. OE Lacnunga (2001) I. lxx. 58 Nim ðas wyrte neoðowearde: ceasteræsc, ontre neoðoweart; ðas ufonwearde: betonican, rude, wermod, acremonia, felterre, [etc.]. OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) xxxii. 78 Wið eagena sare genim þas wyrte þe man argimoniam [OE Harl. 585 acrimoniam, ?a1200 Harl. 6258B agrimoniam; L. herba argimonia] & oðrum naman garclife nemneð. a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 9 Agrimonia, egremoyn. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale (Ellesmere) (1875) l. 800 And herbes koude I telle eek many oon As Egremoyne [c1410 Harl. 7334 Egrimoigne, c1415 Corpus Oxf. Egrymoyne, c1425 Petworth Egrymoyn], Valerian. ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 617 Egrimoyne is an herbe, hote and drye in þe secounde degre, wiþ a clensynge. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 8 Agrimony, or egrimony, herbe, agrimonia. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 786/12 Hec igromonia, a ygromony. 1551 W. Turner New Herball 177 Agrimony groweth among bushes and hedges and in myddowes and woddes. 1592 (?a1425) Chester Plays (BL Add.) (1843) I. 119 Raydishe and egremounde, Which be my erbes. 1620 T. Middleton & W. Rowley World Tost sig. E4v I grant, theres bitter Egrimony in vm. 1623 Rec. Perth Kirk Session 14 May Margaret Horniscleuch..cureit him by ane bath of agrimonie and blak scheipis creisch. 1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xxii. 389 Agrimony nobly opens the Liver and Spleen. 1754 tr. J. Astruc Treat. Venereal Dis. (new ed.) II. iv. xi. 123 Broth's made of Chicken, or River-Crab, and the Leaves of Agrimony, Burnet.., &c. 1789 J. Pilkington View Derbyshire I. 398 Agrimonia eupatoria. Common Agrimony... It is a mild corroberant, and is employed against habitual diorrhæas. 1836 T. Castle Linnæan Artific. Syst. Bot. 13/1 The Common Agrimony, the only British species, is found in flower on the borders of fields, in June and July. 1866 C. A. Johns in J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. i. 31/1 Agrimony..contains tannin, and will dye wool of a nankeen colour. 1902 Spectator 12 Apr. 546/1 Every thrifty house-dame laid up in store dried bunches of common agrimony and other medicinal plants, and brewed herbal drinks of varying degrees of nastiness. 1952 P. Mann Systematics Flowering Plants ii. 119 The petals of Agrimony are yellow in colour, and the flowers open for one day only. 2002 Times 1 July 31/1 A yellow spire-like flower now opening on the grass verges is agrimony. It is smaller than rosebay willow-herb, and its little blooms are more widely spaced. < as lemmas |
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