daffadil

plural daffadils

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of daffodil.

   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

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   Out of all theſe deſcriptiones I gather that our comen daffadil / is one kynde of Narciſſus / where of Pliny maketh mention / when as he ſpeaketh of it with the herbiſhe color. The faſſhon of the lefe / flour and ſtalk of our daffadil agreeth well with the deſcription both of Dioſcorides / & Theophraſt / only the color of the floure is contrary or beſyde the deſcription of Dioſcorides.

   1568, William Turner, The First and Seconde Partes of the Herbal of William Turner Doctor in Phisick, Arnold Birckman

   When daffadils begin to peere, / With heigh the Doxy ouer the dale, / Why then comes in the ſweet o’ the yeere, / For the red blood raigns in yͤ winters pale.

   c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 290, column 1