† populeon Obs.
Forms: 5 popylyon, 5–7 -ilion, 6–7 -uleon, (7 pompil(l)ion).
[a. OF. populeon (15th c. in Godef. Compl.), ad. med.L. *pōpuleum, f. pōpulus poplar. OF. had popelion a 1300 (P. Meyer).]
An ointment made of the buds of the Black Poplar.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. cxx. (1495) 683 Ofte of the croppe of the populer is oynement made..amonge physicyens the oynement hyghte Popilion. 14.. Stockh. Med. MS. 90 An oynement þ at es callyd popylyon. c 1550 Lloyd Treas. Health C iv b, Distempre them w{supt} populeon. 1611 Cotgr., Populeon, popilion, or pompillion; an ointment made of blacke Poplar buds. 1616 Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 41 Rub his browes and all his head ouer with oyle of Roses, Vineger, and Populeon. 1702 Young in Phil. Trans. XXIII. 1280, I then anointed the passage with Populeum [mispr. Populkeum]. 1712 tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 79 The cooling Quality of the Ointment Populeon holds not above a Year. |