Middle English Dictionary Entry
pū̆liol n.
Entry Info
| Forms | pū̆liol n. Also pulliolle, pulial, piliol, pilliol, pileol, (in comb.) piol- & (error) pulior. |
| Etymology | OF poliuel, puliol. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium); also, wild thyme (Thymus serpyllum); (b) ~ haunt, ?wild marjoram (Origanum vulgare), ?hart's pennyroyal (Pulegium cervinum) [see Frisk Macer p.222]; ~ of hertes, hertes ~, hart's penny-royal; ~ mountaine (muntal), wild thyme; also, pennyroyal; ~ of the wode, pennyroyal; ~ real (roial), pennyroyal; also, wild thyme; feld ~, some plant resembling pennyroyal.
Associated quotations
a
- [ a1300 Hrl.978 Vocab.(Hrl 978)555/1 : Chaudes herbes..Pulegium, i. puliol, i. hulwurt. ]
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)56b : Pulyoll is hote and drye in the þirde degre.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)159b/a : Þes ben simpel repercussiue medicines..boþe þe pulioles, mirre, fraunk encense.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)197a/b : Pulegium montanum: Piliole, hulwort, hote & drye in þe þrid degree.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)14/29 : Tak piliol & vetoyne & mak powder þer-of & do þer-of in an egge & ete it.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)22/1 : Take puliol & chewe it & bynd it to thi nauyll, & it sal for-do þe euyll.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)134 : Pyliole or broþerwort is hoot and drie.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)134 : Take þe iuus of puliole rotes and medle it with fressh galle.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)196/18 : For a stynkyng brethe at þe nose..drynke the wyne þat pylyoll is boyled in.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)601/25 : Pelegum: Pylyole.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)96/24 : For a man þat spyttyth blod..take..pyllyoll and betoyne, and make powdir þerof, and putte of þat powdir in an ey, and ete it.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)76/31 : Tak effoentim..with þe rotys of Pulegye, þat ys, pulyol, and sethe hem yn swete wyn.
b
- [ a1300 Hrl.978 Vocab.(Hrl 978)557/20 : Origanum, i. puliol real, i. wde-minte. ]
- a1400 Recipe MS Hal.in Rel.Ant.1 (Hal 335)54 : Geder pulioll real with the rotes als mykel als the lekes and dry hit.
- ?a1400 Adv.18.5.16 Gloss.(Adv 18.5.16)159 : Puleium, i. pulyol muntal.
- ?a1400 Adv.18.5.16 Gloss.(Adv 18.5.16)160 : Polium: puliol real..Origanum: puliol real..Pulicaria: puliol montal.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)56a : Pulyoll monten oþer hilwort oþer wilde tyme ys gode to distroye all wekid humouris in the body.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)168b/a : Iohannes..gadred to gider many oþer exemplez, as calament, pulegium maxime seruinum, i. piliol most of hertes [Ch.(2): puliol and namely the hertes puliol].
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)146/13 : Diarundinem, in þe whiche þe virtue of fatte drye figes, of calamynte, of puliol real [*Ch.(1): origani or pullegii]..be stopped.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)399 : Pylyol mounteyne, herbe: Pulegium. Pyleol ryal: Origonum.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)22/39 : Tak..roses, puliol montayne, comyn ana..& of all thies mak a playster.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)151 : Puliole haunt is clepid in latin origanum.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)186 : Who-so chiewe ensence and puliole haunt to-gidre, it wole do a-wey alle wickyd humours.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)201/2 : Take pylyoll mo[n]teyn a good handfull and wasche hine clene and stampe it smale.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)238/8 : Take spykenarde..pyolryell, auaunce, betony.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)182 : Tak þe rote of saxifrage..pulior [read: puliol] ryal, rosmaryn.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)198 : Sauge, percyly, Red netle, pulyole of þe wode ana; grynd hem wel in amorter.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)43/4 : Take wormwode, calamynte, pillioll riall.
- c1475 Sln.4 Recipes in Rel.Ant.1 (Sln 4)324 : Recipe herbam vocam warmot..pyllyole ryalle, mawron calamynt, redemyntes, pullyolle monteyn.
- a1500 Agnus Castus (LdMisc 553)198/36,41 : Pvlogium montanum is an herbe me cleputh puliole mountayn or hulwort oþer broþerwort..Pvlogium rurale is an herbe þat me clepuþ feldpuliole; þis herbe haþ leues lich to þat oþer puliole..and he haþ a ȝolw flour.
- a1500 Sln.Herb List (Sln 1201)75 : Herbys necessary for a gardyn..Puliall royall.