Middle English Dictionary Entry
filago, -e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | filago, -e n. Also felago. |
| Etymology | ML |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A plant: ?the cudweed.
Associated quotations
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)9/21 : Take rose floures and fenkell & filage.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)234/740 : Take wodbynd, pympernell, and filago and put hem in a sallatorye and make watir of heme.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)114/21 : Take..fylago, þe leef of pyany [etc.].
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)123/29 : Take fenell..felago..wasche hem [etc.].