† myrt-tree Obs.
Also 6 myrtre(e.
[See myrt.]
= myrtle 2 a and b.
In second quot. used erron. (cf. note s.v. myrrh-tree).
| 1382 Wyclif 2 Esdras (= Neh.) viii. 15 The braunchis of myrt tree. 1388 ― Esther ii. 12 So oneli that thei weren anoyntid with oile of myrt tre [oleo myrrhino] bi sixe monethis. c 1510 Barclay Mirr. Gd. Manners (1570) F iij, The Myrtree and Orange by sea bankes doth growe. 1562 Turner Herbal ii. 60 b, The Wild Myrte tre, which is called in Englishe bochers brome. 1580 Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 364 And in this poynt they [sc. women] are not vnlike vnto the Mirt [ed. 1581 Mirre] Tree. 1616 Surfl. & Markh. Country Farm 290 The Myrt-tree, which craueth the same ground..that the Myrtle-tree, as being a kind of wild Myrtle-tree. |
| attrib. 1513 Douglas æneis vi. vii. heading, Eneas..fand quene Dido in the myrtre schaw. |