Meanings
- rareuncountableRare spelling of spignel.
Bärwurz […] distilled from bear's wort (spicknel); served as a digestive
2003, Joachim Lennert, “Bayern (Bavaria)”, in Gunter and Elizabeth Stegner, transl., Culinary Guidebook: Germany, Ismaning, Bavaria: Max Hueber Verlag, →ISBN, page 823 more examples
I would gladly cõſẽt to thẽ yͭ holde yͭ yͤ herbe wich is called of the apothecaries feniculũ tortuoſum⸝ of yͤ Northẽ Engliſhe mẽ ſpiknel⸝ of the Duche mẽ berwurtz⸝ is yͤ true mew, if yͭ I could fynd any ſpicknel or berwurtz yͭ were of ij. cubites hygh.
I would gladly consent to them that hold that the herb which is called of the apothecaries feniculum tortuosum, of the Northern Englishmen spiknel, of the Dutchmen berwurtz, is the true mew, if that I could find any spicknel or berwurtz that were of two cubits high.
1562, Wylliam Turner [i.e., William Turner], “Of the Herbe Called Meon or Mew”, in The Second Parte of Guilliam Turners Herball⸝ […], Cologne: […] Arnold Birckman, →OCLC, folio 56, versoThe Root ſpreadeth divers long Strings, blackiſh without, like the Meum, or Spicknel, and abideth many Years.
1728, R[ichard] Bradley, “Apium Sylvestre sive Thysselinum. Wild Milk Parsley.”, in Dictionarium Botanicum: Or, A Botanical Dictionary for the Use of the Curious in Husbandry and Gardening. […], volume I, London: […] T. Woodward […], and J. Peele […], →OCLC, column 2Mū (spicknel). I never met anyone who knew it and I have never seen a vernacular name for it. I myself think that it is the plant called in the vernacular mwr'nh. […] Mū is an Arabicized form of the Greek μῆον, the name of spicknel (baldmoney; Meum athamanticum Jacq., Apiaceae).
2020, Marwān ibn Janāḥ [i.e., Jonah ibn Janah], “mīm”, in Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, transl., edited by Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, Mailyn Lübke, and Guido Mensching, On the Nomenclature of Medicinal Drugs (Kitāb al-Talkhīṣ) (Islamic History and Civilization; 170), volume 2, Leiden; Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, paragraph 561 (folio 511;17–v,8), page 731
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