† ˈpuliol Herb. Obs.
Also 5 pylyol(e, -eol, 5–6 pulyol(e, 5–7 -ial(l, 6 -ioll, -iole, -yall, pilliall, 7 puleall.
[a. OF. puliol, poulieul, poliol (14th c. in Godef.):—L. type *puleiolum, dim. of puleium, pulegium pennyroyal (or ? ad. L. *poliolum, dim. of polium poly1). Cf. mod.F. pouliot (with different suffix) pennyroyal (Littré), also F. dial. polieu, poulieu, pouillu thyme (Godef.).]
The name of some aromatic herbs. a. (Also puliol royal) = pennyroyal, Mentha Pulegium. b. puliol mountain, perh. the same as poly-mountain (poly1 c); but sometimes identified with Wild Thyme, Thymus Serpyllum: cf. pellamountain.
| [Cf. 1450 Alphita 150/2 Pulegium regale, gliconeum idem, simile est calamento minori. Pulegium ceruinum uel montanum, serpillum, [herpillum] idem, minora habet folia quam alia. gallice puliol, anglice Brotheruurt...Pulegium quando simpliciter ponitur pro regale intelligitur. Ibid. 167/1 Serpillum..gallice serpoul uel tymbre uel puliol. Ibid. 31/2 s.v. Calamiten. Ibid. 120/2 s.v. Montanum serpillum. 1597 Gerarde Herbal 672 Pennie royall [called] Pulegium regale for difference sake between it and wilde Time, which of some is called Pulegium montanum.] |
| a. [c 1265 Voc. Names Plants in Wr.-Wülcker 555/1 Chaudes herbes...Pulegium, i. puliol, i. hulwurt. Ibid. 557/20 Origanum, i. puliol real, i. wdeminte.] 14.. Stockh. Med. MS. i. 19 in Anglia XVIII. 295 Take eysyl & pulyole ryale And camomylle. Ibid. 35, viij [ounces] of puliol reall. 14.. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 601/25 Pelegum, anglice Pylyole. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 399/1 Pyleol ryal, origonum. 1486 Bk. St. Albans B ij b, Take puliall and garlek and stampe it wele togeder. a 1568 in Bannatyne Poems (Hunter. Cl.) 360 Sum bad hir tak erb pilliall. 1578 Lyte Dodoens ii. lxv. 232 This herbe is called..in English Penny Royal, Pulioll Royall. 1611 Cotgr., Pouliot, Penniroyall, Pulial royall. 1706 [see b]. |
| b. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 399/1 Pylyol mounteyne, herbe, Pulegium. c 1450 M.E. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 104 Take puliol montayne, þat is to say hullewort and wasshe hit clene. 1542 Boorde Dyetary xxvi. (1870) 289 These thynges folowynge doth purge Melancoly: quyckbeme,..pulyall mountane. 1545 Elyot Dict., Clinopodium, the herbe whiche is called Puliole mountayne. 1657 C. Beck Univ. Charac. K ij, Puleall of the mountain. 1706 Phillips, Puliol, or Puliol-Mountain, a sort of Herb; Puliol-Royal, the same as Penny-Royal. |