Middle English Dictionary Entry
hǒund(es-berī(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | hǒund(es-berī(e n. |
| Etymology | OE hundes-berie |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A kind of nightshade; esp. black nightshade (Solanum nigrum); (b) the fruit of the wild grape or of some kind of nightshade; (c) ?horehound [cp. hound ben(e].
Associated quotations
a
- a1400 Alphita (SeldArch B.35)119/33 : Morella..uua lupina idem, florem habet nigrum et fructum rubeum..anglice nichtheschode uel houndesberie [vr. hundesberye].
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)52a : Morella medica: Nyght shade oþer pety morell oþer houndbery haþe leuys like to sawle [read: dwale] with a litell white flour and a yelow with jnne, and at our lady day in harviste he berith black bayis in clustris.
- ?a1425 Alphita (Sln 284)176 : Solatrum mortale, i. solatrum nigrum..gallice, morele, anglice, niththeschod uel houndesberye.
- ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh 10.90)177/19 : Morella is an herbe men clepe morel or houndys berye [vrr. houndberye, hownbery] þis herbe haȝt lewys lyk to dwale, but þe lewys of þis herbe are noȝt so moche..and it stynkyȝt sumdel.
- ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh 10.90)205/9,11 : Þis herbe haȝt lewys lyce to houndberi [vr. howndysberes], but it is more..and it hat gret bayes swmdel grettere þanne houndberie.
b
- a1300 Hrl.978 Vocab.(Hrl 978)558/16 : Labrusca, i. hundesberien.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)34/62 : An other take hundisburies of the hegge & stamp heme & take þe juse by it selue.
c
- a1500 Agnus Castus (Hrl 3840)180 : Or houndeberye [Stockh: an herbe þat men clepe marube or horrowne or houndbene].