Middle English Dictionary Entry
hors-minte n.
Entry Info
| Forms | hors-minte n. Also hassemente. |
| Etymology | OE |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. minte.
1.
A kind of wild mint; esp. horse mint Mentha sylvestris, water mint Mentha aquatic, or round-leafed mint Mentha rotundifolia; sed of ~, the seed of a wild mint.
Associated quotations
- c1225 Wor.Bod.Gloss.(Hat 76)21 : Mentastrum: horsminte.
- a1300 Hrl.978 Vocab.(Hrl 978)555/5 : Mentastrum, i. mentastre, i. horsminte.
- a1400 Alphita (SeldArch B.35)19/19 : Balsamita..sisimbrium, menta aquatica..crescit in pratis, anglice, horsminte.
- a1400 Alphita (SeldArch B.35)115/38 : Menta siluatica, mentastrum, sisinbrium..anglice, horsmynte.
- a1400 Alphita (SeldArch B.35)169/16 : Sisimbrium, balsamita..menstrastrum, calamentum agreste idem, crescit ad modum mente in agris, anglice, horsminte.
- a1400 Mirfeld Sinonoma (Pmb-O 2)30 : Menta aquatica, anglice, horsment.
- ?a1400 *Bod.HApul.(Bod 130)28a marg. : Hassemente.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)29b : Balsamta [read: Balsamita] Horsmynte oþer medemynt oþer water mynte, hit is wonder stronge of sauour.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)49b : Menta Romana. Mynte ther ys of a noþer kynde, som men calliþ him white mynte; that erbe ys stronge of sauour, and sum calliþ him horse mynte, for he growiþ in bankys of watrys.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)48a/b : Take..of horsemynte [*Ch.(1): balsamite].
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)48a/b : Take..of the seed of horsmynte [*Ch.(1): ozimi; L azimi].
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)119b/a : Þe tieth & þe gomes schulde be wasshen with þe decoccioun of horsemynt [*Ch.(1): mentastri].
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)248 : Horsmynte, herbe: Balsamita, mentastrum.
- ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh 10.90)135/12 : Balsamita is an herbe þat men clepe horsmynte; Þis herbe haȝt lewys lyk to oþer mynte, and summe clepe it water mynte for it growyȝt myche by water, but it hath a stranggere sawour þanne oþer mynte..þis herbe is hot and drye, and þer are ij specis þer-of.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)230/21 : Þe horse myntis þat grown [on] dekys-bankis.