graymill
(ˈgreɪmɪl)
Also 6 gray mil(e, myle, 7 greimile.
[Etymological perversion (after gray, grey a.) of F. grémil gromwell. (A further corruption is grey millet: see grey a. 10.)]
= gromwell.
| 1548 Turner Names of Herbes 49 Lithospermon is called of the Herbaries Milium solis, in englishe Grummel, but it shoulde be called Gray myle. 1551 ― Herbal ii. 40 Lithospermon..is called gray mil of the blewish gray color that it hath. 1565 Cooper Thesaurus, Lithospermum..Some take it to be grummell, or gray mile. 1601 Holland Pliny (1634) II. 284 Of all herbes that be, there is none more wonderful than Greimile. 1611 Cotgr., Gremil, the hearb Gromill, Grummell, or Graymill. 1756 Watson Leicestersh. Plants in Phil. Trans. XLIX. 814 Gromwell, Gromil, or Graymill. |