Middle English Dictionary Entry
hei-rive n.
Entry Info
| Forms | hei-rive n. Also -rif(e, -reve, -ref(e, -reife, -rove, -rofe, , hai-rive. |
| Etymology | OE hege-rife |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. hei(e.
1.
The plant cleavers Galium aparine, often used medicinally and its roots as a red dyestuff.
Associated quotations
- c1300 Add.15236 Gloss.(1) in Hunt Plant Names (Add 15236)223 : [Rubea Minor]: anglice, heyreve.
- c1300 Add.15236 Gloss.(3) in Hunt Plant Names (Add 15236)223 : [Rubea Minor]: anglice, heyryve.
- (?a1390) Daniel *Herbal (Add 27329)f.124va : Rubarba media: it is sepiheria, hai reue.
- a1400 Mirfeld Sinonoma (Pmb-O 2)37 : Rubea minor, an. hayrive.
- c1400 Daniel *Herbal (Arun 42)f.82r : Etridanus or -na minor, rubea minor .., Rubarba media, sepiheria, hay riue
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)33a : Rubia minor. Hayreff, clyuer, oþer aron is like to wodruff and þe sed tuchid will honge in one is cloþes.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)221 : Hayryf [vr. harryyf], herbe: Rubea vel rubia minor.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)8/8 : Tak wormod or harofe or wodebynde.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)220/10 : Take heyrefe and stampe it in a mortyr.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)122/316 : Take mugworte, wormode, camamell, hayrisse [read: hayriffe], hoorhound, [etc.].
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)62/4 : Take þe jous of hayref and medyll it with mete-oyle.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)63/18 : Take oyle of olyf..oyle of hayreue.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)993 : Hey hove, heyriff, herbe benet, brese-wort, & smallache.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)60b : Haryfe: rubium minor.
- a1500 Agnus Castus (LdMisc 553)201/8 : Rvbea minor is an herbe þat me cleputh clyuere or hayroue.
- 1607(?a1425) Chester Pl.(Hrl 2124)135/77 : Hemlockes, and herif [vr. hereife] -- take keepe!