▪ I. † ers ? Obs.
[a. Fr. ers = Pr. ers, app. cogn. with Cat. er, Sp. yero, yervo, It. ervo:—L. ervum.]
The Bitter Vetch (Ervum Ervilia L.).
| 1578 Lyte Dodoens iv. xxiv. 482. 1879 Prior Plant-n. s.v. |
▪ II. ers(e
obs. ff. arse, q.v. Comb. ersgerdyll (= *arse-girdle); erswort (= *arse-wort), some plant (see quot.).
| 1438 E.E. Wills (1882) 110 To Edmond of Cornewayle an ersgerdyll of siluer. a 1400 Sloane MS. 10 b/1 Pilosella..[French] pilocelle..lambestounge uel erswort. |