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æsc-þrote

  • noun [ feminine ]
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æsc-þrote, an; f: -þrotu, e; f. [æsc ash, þrote a throat]
ASH-THROAT, vervain; verbenaca, verbena officinalis, Prior, p. 242: vocabularies give the Lat. feiula the fennel-giant, but verbenaca vervain seems more probable from the following quotations, —
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  • Herba uermenaca [ = verbenaca. Herb. 4, = verbenaca: Lat. = berbena, 67, -verbena, Lat. ] ðæt is æscþrotu

    the herb verbena, that is ash-throat [= vervain],

    • Herb. cont. 4, 1; Lchdm. i. 8,
    • .
  • Niðeweardre æscþrotan

    of the netherward [part of] vervain,

    • L. M. 3, 72; Lchdm, ii. 358, 16
    • .
  • NIm æscþrotan

    take vervain,

    • 1, 88; Lchdm. ii. 156, 22
    • .
  • Æscþrotan,

    • 1, 43; Lchdm, ii. 108, 6
    • .
  • Æscþrote,

    nom.
    • Herb. 4, 1; Lchdm, i. 90, 1
    • .
  • Æscþrotu,

    • L. M. 1, 47; Lchdm, ii. 120, 9: 2, 53
    • ;
    • Lchdm, ii. 274, 9
    • .
  • Man æscþrote nemneþ

    one nameth it vervain.

    • Herb. 4, 1; Lchdm, i. 90, 3
    • .
  • Gením æscþrote

    take vervain,

    • 101, 3; Lchdm. i. 216, 11
    • :
    • L. M. 3, 61; Lchdm, ii. 344, 9
    • ;
    • Lchdm, iii. 28, 14
    • .
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v.  asc-þrotu berbéna.
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