Middle English Dictionary Entry
hǒus-lẹ̄k n.
Entry Info
| Forms | hǒus-lẹ̄k n. |
| Etymology | From hǒus & lẹ̄k. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum); (b) ?cuckoopint (Arum maculatum).
Associated quotations
a
- a1400 Alphita (SeldArch B.35)20 : Barba iouis..anglice syngrene, erewort, houslek.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)34b : Ivbarbe oþer houseleke with a þikk lefe growith commynly vppon house.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)251 : Howsleke, herbe, or sengrene: Barba Jovis, semper viva, jubarbium.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)371 : Orpyn, herbe: Crassula major, et media dicitur howsleek.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)308/1011 : Stamp sanycle and howsleke..menge the juse with stale ale.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)210 : Tak þe jus of houslek.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)68/11 : Tak ii sponful of jeus of houslek and off wommannys-mylke.
- a1500 Agnus Castus (Bal 329)204/3 : Semperuiua ys an erbe þat me clepyth sengrene housleke..and he hathe a longe stalke, and his flour ys of purple colowre, and it growyth moche a-pon wallys and on howssys.
b
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)43a/b : Medle the þinges aforsaide wiþ some of þe openynge farmacies, as is..housleke [L iarri siue dragontee] & coste.