Middle English Dictionary Entry
pople n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | pople n.(1) Also popil(le, populle, & (?errors) pepil, peple. |
| Etymology | ?ML populia |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. popi(e n.(1).
1.
The weed cockle (Agrostemma githago); also, darnel (Lolium temulentum); ~ sed; ~ mele, meal made of the seeds of cockle.
Associated quotations
- a1400 Recipe MS Hal.in Rel.Ant.1 (Hal 335)53 : For to make a womans neke white and softe. tak fresch swynes grees molten and hennes grees and the white of egges half rosted, and do therto a lytel popyl mele.
- c1400 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Hrl 490)338 : Popil [vrr. pople; kokil; glossing AF (Cmb): neel].
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)71a/a : Zizannia: drawke or pople.
- a1425 Roy.17.C.17 Nominale (Roy 17.C.17)664/30 : Lollium: populle.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)26/36 : Tak þe rute of walworthe, peple & veruayne, & stampe þam with alde gres.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)66/35 : Of marigolde sedis..lynsede..of pepill sede..tak halfe an vnce, [etc.]
- 1483 Cath.Angl.(Monson 168)286 : Popylle: gith indeclinabile, lollium, nigella.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)726/21 : Lolium: a popylle.