单词 | horehound |
释义 | horehoundn. 1. a. A labiate herb, Marrubium vulgare, having stem and leaves covered with white cottony pubescence; its aromatic bitter juice is much used as a remedy for coughs, etc. Hence extended to several allied herbs (see 1b), horehound proper being then distinguished as horehound common or white horehound. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > horehound horehoundc1000 marrube?a1450 horemint1539 marvel1847 c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 110 Genim þa haran hunan. a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 298/6 Marubium, hare hune. a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 554/4 Marubium, i. maruil, i. horehune. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 80 Wiþ watir..þat mirre wormode, horhone, sauge, pimpernelle hony symple or compounned ben soden yn. c1425 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) II. 9 An heved hor als horhowne. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 247/1 Horone, herbe..marubium. 1486 Bk. St. Albans C v b Take the Juce of haarhounde. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 232/1 Horehounde herbe, langue de chien. 1742 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 4) I. 38 That wholesome Herb Horehound, which, indeed, is a fine Bitter. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxii. 313 Common White Horehound has the divisions of the calyx ending in setaceous hooked points. 1897 J. C. Willis Man. Flowering Plants II. 242 Marrubium vulgare, white horehound. b. With qualifying words: base horehound n. White Dead-nettle, Lamium album. fetid horehound n. Ballota nigra, a common weed with dull purple flowers. water horehound n. species of Lycopus, particularly L. Europæus.black, stinking horehound: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > black horehound ballote1548 fetid horehound1548 archangel1562 stinking horehound- the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > other labiate plants dictamnusOE MarrubiumOE dittany1552 water horehound1578 bush basil1597 gypsy herb1726 Perilla1783 gypsywort1787 Malabar catmint1813 chia1832 nettle geranium1860 gas plant1863 coleus1885 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > dead-nettle or hemp-nettle blind-nettleeOE nettleeOE dead-nettle1398 red archangela1425 red dead-nettlea1425 archangel1440 deaf-nettlec1440 swan's tonguec1450 dea-nettle?1530 henbit1597 nettle-hemp1597 day-nettle1635 base horehound1736 Ballota1778 weasel-snout1796 hemp-nettle1801 glidewort1866 Lamium1974 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. B.iiijv Ballote..is named in english stynkyng Horehound or blacke Horehound. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.v Stachys..maye be named in englishe litle Horehounde or strayte Horehound. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lxxxi. 255 There be foure kindes of Horehounde, in fasshion one like to another..The first kinde is our white Horehounde, the seconde is the blacke stinking Horehounde. The third is Stachys or field Horehounde. The fourth is water or Marrishe Horehounde. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lxxxi. 256 Stachys or wilde Horehounde. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 564 It is called in English purple Horehound, bastarde wilde Horehound. ?1610 J. Fletcher Faithfull Shepheardesse ii. sig. D1 The Clote..And this blacke Horehound, both are very good. 1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. iii. 307 Perennial shrubby Lamium or base Hore-hound. 1897 J. C. Willis Man. Flowering Plants II. 39 Ballota Nigra, the foetid horehound. 2. An extract or confection of the plant Marrubium vulgare, used as a remedy for coughs. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for coughs > plant-derived horehound1562 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 51v Horehounde..is good to be geuen with hony vnto them that syghg much. 1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 55 The relative merits of almond-rock and candied horehound. 1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 475 Horehound, an aromatic stimulant. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as horehound candy, horehound drop, horehound lozenge, etc.; horehound beer n. a fermented beverage containing horehound juice. ΚΠ 1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South I. v. 70 She..took the horehound drop that Margaret offered her. 1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 127 Horehound lozenges are sold by most dispensing chemists, as expectorant medicine. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.c1000 |
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