† lithwortn.
Obsolete.
Dwarf elder, Sambucus Ebulus.
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c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 124 Ðeos wyrt þe man ostriago, & oðrum naman lyðwyrt nemneð.
a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 299/2 Erifeon, liðwyrt, idem est ostriago.
a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 558/21 Ostragium, i. herbyue, i. liþewurt.
c1450 Middle Eng. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 203 Jus of lythwort.
c1450 Middle Eng. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 205 Tak lytwort, bresewort Rybwort.
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