† jusquiam Obs.
[= F. jusquiame (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. late L. iusquiamus (Palladius).]
= hyoscyamus.
| [c 1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 94 Ðeos wyrt þe man..iusquianum nemneð, & oðrum naman belone, & eac sume men henne belle hatað. c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 264. 1527 Andrew Brunswyke's Distyll. Waters ii. cclxxv. T ij b/1 The venims of Opium and Iusquiamus. 1565 J. Halle Hist. Expost. Table 52 Hyosciamus, henbane is called in Greeke Ὑοσκυαµος: in Latin: Hiosciamus..of the Apothecaries Iusquiamus.] 1727 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Goose, Henbane, or Jusquiam, call'd the Death of young Geese. 1736 Bailey Househ. Dict. 318 Take half an ounce of..the ointment of jusquiam. |