† ˈbone-wort Obs.
Forms: 1 banwyrt, 3 bonwurt, 5 banworte, 6 banwort, banwurt, banwoort, 7–8 bonewort.
[OE. bánwyrt, f. bán, bone + wyrt, wort.]
A name given, on account of their supposed bone-healing properties, to several different plants, as the common Daisy, Golden-Rod, Centaury (Erythræa), Yellow Mountain Pansy, Consolida minor, and Osmund Royal or Flowering Fern.
| c 1000 Ags. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 300 Uiola aurosa et uiola purpurea, banwyrt. c 1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 294 Ðeos wyrt þe man violam, & oðrum naman banwyrt nemneð, ys ðreora cynna. c 1265 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 556 Osmunda, osmunde, bonwurt. c 1400 Roy. MS. 18 A vi. f. 72 b in Promp. Parv. 52 note, Bryse-wort or bon-wort or daysye. 1483 Cath. Angl. 20/1 Banworte, consolidum. 1513 Douglas æneis xii. Prol. 115 In battill gyrs burgionys the banwort wyld. 1565–73 Cooper Thesaur., Bellis, the whyte daysy, called of some the margarite, in the North banwoort. 1736 Bailey Househ. Dict. 2 Take adder's spear, alehoof..bone-wort. |