cuckoo-pint
(ˈkʊkuːˌpɪnt)
[Shortened from next.]
The wild or common Arum, A. maculatum, or Wake-robin.
| 1551 Turner Herbal i. (1568) D vj b, Coccowpynt called also in Englyshe rampe or Aron. 1656 Ridgley Pract. Physick 299 Root of Cuckoe-pint, half a dram. 1762 B. Stillingfleet Econ. Nature Misc. Tracts 76 There is a kind of cuckow-pint in New-France, that if you break a branch of it, will afford you a pint of excellent water. 1874 T. Hardy Madding Crowd I. 239 The odd cuckoo-pint—like an apoplectic saint in a niche of malachite. |