† redwortn.

Forms: see red adj. and n. and wort n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., wort n.¹

Etymology: < red adj. + wort n.¹ With early use compare rodewort n. and see discussion at that entry.

Obsolete.

Originally: a medicinal plant, probably a marigold (cf. rodewort n.). In later use: any of various other plants, typically having reddish parts, including sundew, field madder, bearberry, poppy, and herb Robert. Cf. redweed n.

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redwort?a1425

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?a1425 MS Royal 12.G.4 f. 181, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Red-wort For þe stiche in a monnus syde, tak redewortes & stamp hem.

?c1450 in Anglia (1896) 18 302 (MED) Þe crop of þe reed worte do þer-to.

?a1500 in G. Henslow Med. Wks. 14th Cent. (1899) 28 (MED) Take þe brere crope and redewort and þe crop of dayseyze ache.

1615 G. Markham Countrey Contentments ii. 33 To eate away dead flesh, take Stubbe-wort, and folde it vp in a red Docke leafe, or red Wort leafe, and so roste it in the hot embers and lay it hot to any sore.

1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum at Vaccinia This other Red Wort is like a low creeping Shrub.

1757 J. Buchanan Linguæ Brittanicæ at Sun-dew The name of a plant, otherwise called moon grass and redwort.

1786 Edinb. New Dispensatory ii. 257/2 It is an evergreen, trailing, shrubby plant with red berries, resembling the common redwort-bush.

1807 P. Wakefield Introd. Bot. (ed. 5) 57 Madder, Goosegrass, Woodruff, and Redwort are of this family.

1848 Brit. Farmer's Mag. 13 63/1 A number of sheep also cast their lambs without being diseased; and he himself was disposed to think that this was occasioned by the red wort or poppy.

1866 J. Cundall Every-day Bk. Nat. Hist. 66 Now the stalks and leaves have assumed a brilliant red... The plant [sc. herb Robert] was known of old, from this peculiarity, as ‘rob wort’ or ‘redwort’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

单词	redwort
释义	† redwortn. Forms: see red adj. and n. and wort n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., wort n.¹ Etymology: < red adj. + wort n.¹ With early use compare rodewort n. and see discussion at that entry. Obsolete. Originally: a medicinal plant, probably a marigold (cf. rodewort n.). In later use: any of various other plants, typically having reddish parts, including sundew, field madder, bearberry, poppy, and herb Robert. Cf. redweed n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > chicory hardhewe?a1350 redwort?a1425 chicorya1450 horse-thistlec1450 milk thistlec1450 succory1541 ambubey1585 intybe1666 cat-succory1715 cichoriuma1806 witloof1885 radicchio1892 ?a1425 MS Royal 12.G.4 f. 181, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Red-wort For þe stiche in a monnus syde, tak redewortes & stamp hem. ?c1450 in Anglia (1896) 18 302 (MED) Þe crop of þe reed worte do þer-to. ?a1500 in G. Henslow Med. Wks. 14th Cent. (1899) 28 (MED) Take þe brere crope and redewort and þe crop of dayseyze ache. 1615 G. Markham Countrey Contentments ii. 33 To eate away dead flesh, take Stubbe-wort, and folde it vp in a red Docke leafe, or red Wort leafe, and so roste it in the hot embers and lay it hot to any sore. 1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum at Vaccinia This other Red Wort is like a low creeping Shrub. 1757 J. Buchanan Linguæ Brittanicæ at Sun-dew The name of a plant, otherwise called moon grass and redwort. 1786 Edinb. New Dispensatory ii. 257/2 It is an evergreen, trailing, shrubby plant with red berries, resembling the common redwort-bush. 1807 P. Wakefield Introd. Bot. (ed. 5) 57 Madder, Goosegrass, Woodruff, and Redwort are of this family. 1848 Brit. Farmer's Mag. 13 63/1 A number of sheep also cast their lambs without being diseased; and he himself was disposed to think that this was occasioned by the red wort or poppy. 1866 J. Cundall Every-day Bk. Nat. Hist. 66 Now the stalks and leaves have assumed a brilliant red... The plant [sc. herb Robert] was known of old, from this peculiarity, as ‘rob wort’ or ‘redwort’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.?a1425
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