† maidweed Obs.
Also 5–6 mayde-, 6 mayd-, made-.
[For *maithe-, *maythe-weed: see maythe.]
a. Stinking Camomile, Anthemis Cotula. b. red maidweed, Red or Purple Camomile, Adonis autumnalis. (Cf. mayweed.)
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 319/2 Mayde wede, herbe, or maythys (MS. S. maydewode, P. maydenwede), melissa, amarusca. 1548 Turner Names of Herbes (E.D.S.) 14 They call it in Englishe red mathes, alij, red mayde wed, alij purple camomyle. Ibid. 60 Stynkyng maydweede. 1551 ― Herbal 1. D ij, Dyuers thynke, that heranthemon is the herbe: whych is called of the herbaryes, amarisca rubra: and of oure countre men, red mathe, or red made wede. 1660 Lupton 1000 Notable Things viii. §46. 202 Which Maid⁓weed is a stinking herb, having a flower like a Daysie. |