| 单词 | english mercury |
| 释义 | > as lemmasEnglish mercury b. The plant Good King Henry or allgood, Chenopodium bonus-henricus, a kind of goosefoot grown as a pot-herb and eaten like spinach, originally confused with French mercury (sense 10a). Also more fully English mercury, †false mercury. Now English regional (northern). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > [noun] > dog's mercury mercuryc1450 dog's caul1578 wild mercury1578 dog's mercury1597 townweed1853 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > herb > [noun] > mercury mercuryc1450 allgood1578 good Henry1578 good King Henry1640 mercury goosefoot1853 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > culinary herbs > allgood mercuriala1300 smear-dockc1325 papwort?a1425 mercuryc1450 allgood1578 good Henry1578 smear-docken1775 mercury goosefoot1853 c1450 Med. Recipes (BL Add. 33996) in F. Heinrich Mittelengl. Medizinbuch (1896) 74 (MED) Take malues & mercurye, & seþe hem wyþ a messe of..porke. a1500 in M. R. James Catal. MSS Gonville & Caius (1907) II. 487 (MED) Herbes for a salad..mercury, lang de beuf, broun fenel, dent lyon. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. xi. 561 In English, Good Henry and Algood: of some it is taken for Mercurie. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health xxix. 45 It is a common prouerbe among the people, Be thou sicke or whole, put Mercurie in thy coole. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 259 English Mercurie, or good Henrie. 1597 J. Gerard Herball Table Eng. Names False Mercurie, that is All good. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta vii. 144 Mercurie is much vsed among other pot-hearbes. 1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) ii. li. 329 It [sc. English Mercurie] is taken for a kinde of Mercurie, but vnproperly, for that it hath no participation with Mercurie..except yee will call euery herbe Mercurie which hath power to loose the belly. 1731 Gentleman's Mag. 1 314 Take Marsh Mallow Leaves the Herb Mercury, Saxifrage and Pellitory of the Wall of each..three handfulls. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xvii. 228 One of the most respectable species is the English Mercury or Allgood. 1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. 362 Spinach (Spinacia oleracea), Orach (Atriplex hortensis) and English Mercury (Chenopodium Bonus Henricus) belong to this order. 1865 W. White Eastern Eng. II. 12 One of the dishes contained Mercury, a vegetable which I had never seen before. 1906 J. Vaughan Wild-flowers Selborne 32 [Good King Henry] is called ‘wild spinach’ in the Isle of Wight... In other districts it is known as ‘mercury’, but the true mercury is Mercurialis annua. 1972 Y. Lovelock Veg. Bk. 223 Possibly it [sc. Chenopodium bonus henricus] gains the name mercury from the Latin god of medicine. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 186/1 Markery, the herb Good King Henry..it is still available, in season, in the old Butter Market in Lincoln city. < as lemmas |
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