Middle English Dictionary Entry
savī̆n(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | savī̆n(e n. Also saven, savain, savein(e, savien, sawin & (Latinate) savinam & (errors) saveryn, smyn. |
| Etymology | OE safine, safene, savine, savene & OF savine & L savīna. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The plant Juniperus sabina; -- often used medicinally; (b) ?the plant Aster amellus; (c) ?the dwarf elder or danewort [cp. ebulus n.].
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B:Berberich)126.114/1 : Nim þa wyrt þat man sabinan & oþþer nama sauinam nemneð.
- ?a1200(?OE) PDidax.(Hrl 6258b)11/3 : Nim sauinam and ambrotena and cnuca hi.
- c1390 Susan.(Vrn)69 : Heo greiþed hire til hire gardin..Þer lyndes and lorers were lent vpon lone, Þe sauyne and sypres, selcouþ to sene.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.1353 : Canis maior..The fifte sterre is of Magique..forto worche and to fulfille Thing which to this science falleth, Ther is an herbe which men calleth Saveine, and that behoveth nede To him that wole his pourpos spede.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)276/32 : Þou schalt make him a clisterie wiþ a decoccioun of herbis..mollificatif & duretik: as malua, violae..sauine, ebuli, sambuci.
- c1400 Daniel *Herbal (Arun 42)f.23v : The grene [read: grete] junipere is as heyh as firze þat þey callen whyn; his stok blakkysh, braunched & leuyd mykel lik saueyn or cypres fro fer & euermore grene
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)71b : Sawyn ys hote and drye..Savayn dronkyn in wyne drawith oute flouris and spillith conseyvynge.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)424/10 : So þat the hete þerof be broken wiþ temporate oyles..þat is oyle of saveyne [L sabinum] and oyle of sisan.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)441 : Saveyne [Win: Sawyn], tree: Savina.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)83 : Medle saveyn with hony and it wole dreye fast a wounde.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)221/5 : For þe wormys in a manis body: Take beteny and savyenn and drye hem.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)225 : Pro vulneribus: Tak wermot, weybrode, fenkelrote, þre leues of smyn [read: sauyn], wodebynde, [etc.].
- a1500 Agnus Castus (Hrl 3840)203/6 : Take the juys of sauyn and medle hyt with hony and a-noynt the sor ther-with.
- a1500 Peterb.Lapid.(Peterb 33)p.73 : If þu berest þis stone in a rynge, put a litel sauen vndire þe left kne & þu schalt neuer be wroþ with þe woman þat þu hast weddid.
- a1500 Peterb.Lapid.(Peterb 33)p.89 : Firigins is..gode if it be dronkyne with sauen for þe gowte.
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)787/12 : Samina [?read: Savina]: a saveryn [?read: saveyn].
b
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B:Berberich)69.7/1 : De Asterion..Þeos wurt þe man asterion & oþrum naman sauine nemneð, he byð cenned betweoh stanum & on smeþum stowun.
c
- a1400 Mirfeld Sinonoma (Pmb-O 2)18 : Ebel, i. savin.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- c1475 Yale-BA.Artist.Recipes (Yale-BA R486.M43 1450) 101/27 : For blew lethyr, take the juyce of brasyl, and of saveyne, and of vertegrece..and þan worche þerwith.
- a1500 Sln.122 Artist.Recipes (Sln 122) 118/12 : To make blew ledyr. Take the jus of brasil, and of sabyne, and of verdegrece, and lete þe lest part be of brasil, and worche þerwith when þu list.
- a1500 Sln.122 Artist.Recipes (Sln 122) 118/21 : To make blew carde. Take and wasche thy cloth in alom de glas..and temper it with sabeyne and with verdegrece.
- a1500 Rwl.C.506 Artist.Recipes (Rwl C.506) 169/7 : To make lynne cloþe blewe..seþe brasill in strong lye, and temper it with sauerayne [?read: sawdyne] and vertegres.
- a1525 BodEMus.52 Artist.Recipes (BodEMus 52) 190/22 : Forto make blewe cloth. Firste washe þi clothe in alum glasse, and after þat seth brasell in strong lye, and temper it with sawern and with vertegres.
Note: Glossary: "sabyne, sabeyne, saveyne, sawyn, sawern, sawdyne n. 'some plant providing a blue colourant, perh. cornflower (Centaurea cyanus L.) or dwarf elder (Sambucus ebulus L.), (but prob. not Juniperus sabina L.)'."
Note: ?New sense (or note additional usage for source of blue pigment). Cp. sabinan n.
Note: New spellings (sabine, sabeine, sawern, & (?errors) saveraine, sawdine).