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Anglo-Saxon

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lambes cerse

(n.)
Grammar
lambes cerse, an; f.
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Lamb's cress; cardamine hirsuta Cersan sǽdes sume men hátaþ lambes cersan, L. M. 1, 1; Lchdm. i. 24, 16

stíþe

(n.)
Grammar
stíþe, an (?) ; f.
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A name given to lamb's cress, or to nettle (cf. the lists of plants given in sections 45, 46, Lchdm. iii. pp. 30-36) Stíðe ðeós wyrt hátte, Lchdm. iii. 32, 23

cerse

(n.)
Grammar
cerse, an; f.

Cress ⬩ nasturtium

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Cress; nasturtium, Herb. 21; Lchdm. i. 116, 17, MS. B: L. M. 1, 26; Lchdm. ii. 68, 4: 1, 31; Lchdm. ii. 74, 10: 128, 13: ii. 182, 15: 188, 8: ii. 340, 24

leác-cærse

(n.)
Grammar
leác-cærse, an: f.
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'A cress with an onion-like smell, alliaria officinalis' E. D. S. Plant Names. Cockayne says 'erysimum alliaria,' Lchdm. ii. 318, 7: 320, 3. In Wrt. Voc. ii. 60, 40, leáccærse id est túncærse glosses nasturcium

stíme

(n.)
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Cockayne says water-cress, in the note to the passage, but nettle in his glossary. Perhaps the alternative reading stune is the better, as it is said of the plant : stunaþ heó wærce . . . wið*-*stunaþ heó áttre. (?)

wille-cærse

(n.)
Grammar
wille-cærse, an; f.

Well-kerse ⬩ water-cress

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.), water-cress Wyllecyrse foenum graecum Wrt. Voc. i. 67, 76. Willecærse britia 286, 28. Wyllecærse fenegrecio ii. 38, 77. Seóð mid wyllecærsan (-cersan, v. l.), Lchdm. i. 140, 12. Nim wyllecærsan (-en, MS.), iii. 134, 2.

fild-cumb

(n.)
Grammar
fild-cumb, es; m. [cumb II. a liquid measure]

A milk-pail ⬩ mulctrāle ⬩ mulctrum

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A milk-pail; mulctrāle, mulctrum Gif meoluc síe awyrd, bind tosomne wegbrǽdan and giþrifan and cersan, lege on ðone fildcumb, and ne sete ðæt fæt niðer on eorþan seofon nihtum if milk be spoilt, bind together waybroad and cockle and cress, lay them on

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