Alphita : a medico-botanical glossary from the Bodleian manuscript, Selden B.35 / edited by J.L.G. Mowat.

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1887
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    [Ilasga\ respice in barba Aaron uel iarus. Badicula, polorieon^ respice in ella- boris niger. 5 Rapiens uitam, respice in mezereon. Ribes, respice in acedula. Rinosorehisrespice in orchis.] Rampnus*, g®. griseler, a^, threw- thorn joRealgar'' uel risalgar est uena terre, inde habemus experimentum ad ratos et mures capiendum. Ilenion, i. sompnus. Reuma ^ i. fluxus. 15 Resina^ pix alba idem, quasi resuma, et dicitur a residuo-das. Item ap- propriatum est hoc nomen ad designandam gummam abietis quando simpliciter inuenitur, in ahis uero additur determinacio ut 20 resina pini uel resina pruni et similia. Dicitur etiam resina frixa que resina sicca est de qua sophisticatur thus. Reginela, i. remede, a^. medewort. 25 [Regina prati, medewort.] Ben, renis, uel rien, rienis, nefren et areffren idem. Repticum ^*^, i. purgatiuum. Kesta bouis, g^. rest de beof, ang®. 30 [hyseneherde uel] cammolc. [Re- spice in bulmago et in raphanum romoris.] Reuma i. fluxus uel reumaticus acer, reumatica passio et similia,et dicitur 35 de ruo, is, quasi ruens materiam. 8. theuethom. 10. resalgar. 13. Remon. 25. moderwrt. 30. reste beof. 34. aer. 36. ruis. 14. Remau. 16. resudo. 1 See ante, Barba aaron. iroXvfi^iCov, Diosc. iv. 149. ' Kvvbs opx'r, Diosc. iii. 131. * E. P. N. p. 47, ' Ranmi, Grosiler, pefe-Jjom.' = Cotgrave,' Groselier, a Gooseberrie shrub.' 6 This name occurs as ^eofe^orn (Wright's Vocabularies, ed. Wiilcker, p. 43), Jji/ejorn (ib. p. 139), ^yft^orn (p. 149), thetliornire (ib. p. 715), and in all these cases is used to gloss Ramnus. It becomes later thethorne: d. Cath. Angl. (ed. Herttage), ' a Thethorne, rampnus :' and Bart. p. 36, ' Rampnus . . . i. thelhome.' In a MS. at Lincoln College, Oxford, No. 57, p. 90 verso, is a gloss,' Rampniis, thewethom.' Possibly the name of Fea-herry for the gooseberry may be con- nected. Compare the names Feaberry, Feabes, Thebes, Thapes (Nemnich). ^ ' Matth. Silv. c. dc, ' Realgar . . . ydeomate nostro dicitur soricaria, interficit sorices et omnia animalia.' Bailey,' Realgal, a mineral, a kind of red Arsenick, differing from the common,which is white, and from orpiment, which is yellow.' ' h^i^a. ' Bart. p. 36,' Resina, i. pix alba, rosin,' >» Bart. p. 36, ' Regina prati, i. moderwort.' Gerarde, p. 1043, ' It is called of the later age Regina Praii . . . in low Dutch, Reiinette . . . in English, Meads-sweet, Medow-sweet, and Queen of the medowes.' E. P. N. p. 43, ' Regina, reine, med-wurt.' vefpos. ^vtttiicov, Galen (ed. Kiihn), v.i. 261. Sim. Jan. ' Rhiptica, g. purgativa ut Gal. li. de ingenio sanitatis ripticon katerticum.' pivfM. Matlh. Silv. c. dciii, ' Reuma, gre. est actus quod est fluxus uel cursus.'