† neeze-wort Obs.
Also 6–7 nese-, (6 niese-, nise-), neese-.
[ad. G. nies(e)-wurz(el or Du. nies-wortel (also nieskruid): see neeze v. and wort.]
A former book-name of hellebore.
| 1548 Turner Names Herbs (E.D.S.) 79 Veratrum..maye be called in englishe Nesewurte. Ibid. 80 The herbe..which hath bene hytherto taken for blacke Nisewurt, or Veratrum nigrum. 1578 Lyte Dodoens 347 This kinde of Hellebor is called..in English White Hellebor, Neseworte, and Lingwort. 1601 R. Chester Love's Martyr (1878) 93 First of the Nesewort, it doth driue away, And poysoneth troublesome Mice. 1629 Parkinson Parad. lxxxii. 346 White Ellebor, Neesewort or Neesing roote, because the powder of the roote is vsed to procure neesing. 1668 Wilkins Real Char. ii. iv. 78. |