ˈbrotherwort
[f. as prec. + wort.]
Wild Thyme, Thymus Serpyllum. (Britten and Holland.) (According to Halliwell, Pennyroyal.)
| 1387 Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 35 Pulegium montanum, brotherwort. c 1465 Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 81 Herpillum, serpillum, pulegium montanum, brothuurt. Ibid. 186 Tymbra uel timbria, brotherwrt. 1499 Promp. Parv. 54 Brother wort, pulio, puleium. 1530 Palsgr. 201/2 Brother worte herbe. 1597 in Gerard App. (Britten & Holl.). |