† pedelion Herb. Obs.
Also 6 patedelion, 6–7 padelion, -lyon.
[a. F. pied (or † pié) de lion ‘Lions foot, Lions paw, Ladies mantle,..Padelion’ (Cotgr.). Also F. pas de lion in same sense, and patte de lion ‘Bastard blacke Ellebore, Beares-foot, Setterwort..also, as Pied de lion’ (Cotgr.); Littré has pied de lion and patte de lion both as = alchémille, lady's mantle.]
A name of certain plants: a. Black Hellebore; b. ? Leontopodium; c. Lady's Mantle: cf. lion's foot, lion's paw, lion n. 11 b.
| 14.. Stockh. Med. MS. i. 108 in Anglia XVIII. 297 Late take a gres..Þat men clepe pedelyoun. ? 1516 Grete Herball clviii. K ij b, De elleboro nigro, Pedelyon, or lyons fote. 1578 Lyte Dodoens i. xcviii. 140 The latter wryters do call this herbe in..Latin Achimilla,..Pes leonis..in English Ladies mantell,..Padelion. 1589 J. Rider Lat. Dict. 1751 An hearb called patedelion or pied de lion... Leontopodium. 1597 Gerarde Herbal App., Pedelion is Helleborus niger. 1611 Cotgr., Pied de Lion, Lions foot, Lions paw, Ladies mantle,..Padelion. 1640 Parkinson Theat. Bot. 538 We in English [call it] Padelyon, after the French. 1864 Prior Plant-n. (1879) 175 Padelion,..from the resemblance of its leaf to the impress of a lion's foot, the lady's mantle. |