couslip

plural couslips

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of cowslip.

   In Aprill follow, The Double white Violet; The Wall-flower; The Stock-Gilly-Flower; The Couſlip;

   1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Gardens”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 267

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   Take of the floures of roſemarie, ſage, betoni, yſope, Gelifloures, primroſes, Couſlips, damaſk roſes, of eache of theſe floures the waight of .vi. pẽs:[…]

   1551, Thomas Rainold, A Compendious Declaration of the Excellent Vertues of a Certain Lateli Inuentid Oile, Callid for the Vuorthines Thereof Oile Imperial. Vuith the Maner Hou the Same Is to Be Usid, to the Benefite of Mankind, Against Innumerable Diseasis., Ioan. Gryphius

   When couſlips, and daiſies, and daffadils ſpread, / And adorn, and perfume the green flow’ry mead;

   1732, The Hive. A Collection of the Most Celebrated Songs., volume IV, London: […] J. Walthoe, […], page 53