Middle English Dictionary Entry
mil-foil(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | mil-foil(e n. Also -foille, -foli(e, millefoil(e, -foli(e, -fole, millifoile, -foli(e, melfoile & (Latinate) millefolium, -foliam, -folio, -folii. |
| Etymology | L mīlifolium, mille- & OF milfueil. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Milfoil, yarrow (Achillea millefolium).
Associated quotations
- ?a1200(?OE) PDidax.(Hrl 6258b)47/9 : Syle him drincan..myllefolyam wyð wyne ȝemengged.
- a1300 Hrl.978 Vocab.(Hrl 978)555/9 : Millefolium, i. milfoil [?OF].
- a1400 Recipe MS Hal.in Rel.Ant.1 (Hal 335)p.55 : Another drynk to wounde: tak confery, marigolde, matfelon, mylfoyle..seth tham in ale..and drynk.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)23a : Dropwort is like to milfoly, but his leuys beþ more large, and he growiþ by þe grownde, as doþe mylfoly.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)46b : Myllefoly haþe smale jaggid levis and many and for hit ys mylfoly some men calliþ hit yarowe.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)47a : The sede of mylfoly, avance, and centory in wyne y-vsid delyuereth þe childe of javndys.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)172b/a : Veruene, pimpinelle, pilocelle, i. moushere, millefolij [Ch.(2): millifoyle].
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)196a/b : Millefolium Millefoile ȝarow.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)60/24 : Agaynz þe flowyng of þe emoroidez distempre þou..mele of whete with iuyse of millefoile.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)106/9 : Millyfoyle [*Ch.(1): millefolium] and peritorie stampede wiþ a litel salte.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)329/7 : Mylefoyle [*Ch.(1): millefolio], i. ȝarowe.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)337 : Myllyfoly, herbe. Millefolium, sanguinaria.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)441 : Sanguinarye, herbe, or myllefolye.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)72/10 : Tak..tansay, betoyn, milfoille, comfery..of ilkane ilike mekill.
- ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh 10.90)176/10 : Millefolie is an herbe þat men clepe Millefoly or noseblod or ȝarwe. þis herbe haȝt lewys lyk to phylypendula and it haȝt a quyt flour.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)237/10 : Take..ambrose and mylfoyle..an hand full.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)250/15 : Take..myllfoyle and wete flowur.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)254/20 : Take..of mylfoyle, henbane..of weybrede..and sethe all þes to-geder.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)112 : Take..millefoil & quintfoile.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)232 : Tak millefoyle, i. nosebledels or yarow.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)596/9 : Myllefoyle vel Noseblede.
- ?c1450 Iff a man (Stockh 10.90)299/173 : Take mylfoly & flour & comyn..And..þe wermis xal owt.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)49/17 : Take..lawreall, millefoyle..and auence.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)87/15 : Take jus of myllyfoyle and flour of whete.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)136/9 : Take millifolye, þat is ȝarwe..and wrynge ouȝt þe jows.
- (1473) Paston (Gairdner)5.175 : Water of mynte or water of millefole were good for my cosyn Bernay to drynke, for to make hym to browke.
- a1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking in Studia Neoph.16 (Hrl 2340)15 : Take mellfoyle and stamp it.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)60b/a : Take oon or two dropis of þe iuys of mylfoile & putt it in þe wounde.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)113a/b : Millefoile brusid in a morter and putt to þe wounde heeliþ it.