seseli
(ˈsɛsɪlɪ)
Also 6 -y.
[med.L. seseli, -is (also seseleos), a. Gr. σέσελι, var. of σέσελις. Cf. F. séséli (16th c.), It., etc. seseli, and cicely.]
a. = hartwort. b. A plant of the umbelliferous genus Seseli.
| 1578 Lyte Dodoens 6 If it be drunken with Annis seede or Sesely. 1597 Gerarde Herbal ii. ccccviii. 893 Of Seselios, or Harte woorts of Candie. Ibid. 894 Seseli Creticum. Seseleos of Candie. 1601 Holland Pliny viii. xxxii. I. 213 The hearbe Seselis or Siler-mountaine. 1605 Timme Quersit. iii. 172 Take..of the seedes peony, of seseli or comin, of each two ounces. 1753 Chambers' Cycl. Suppl., Seseli seed, in the materia medica, the name of the seed of a plant, called also by some libanotis. 1834 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 43 The root of several of the seselis. |