† stonehore Obs.
Also 5 stonore, 6 stonnord, 7 stonnard, (ston-chore).
[f. stone n.; the second element is obscure.]
= stonecrop (Sedum acre or S. reflexum).
| a 1400–50 Stockh. Med. MS. 173 Stonore or stoncrop: crassula minor. 1541 Bk. Properties Herbs B vj, Crassula minor. Thys herb is called Stonehore or Stonecroppe. 1579 Langham Gard. Health 623 Stonhore or wall-pepper, causeth vomite, taken with vineger,..and is good against feuers. 1597 Gerarde Herbal ii. cxxxvii. 415 The Englishmen [call this] Stonecrop and Stonehore, little Stonecrop, Pricket, [etc.]. Ibid. Suppl., Stonnord is Stonecrop. 1640 Parkinson Theat. Bot. 735 Wee [call it] in English Prickmadam, Stonecrop or Great Stonecrop,..Stonehore and Mousetaile. 1665 Lovell Herbal (ed. 2) 417 Stone hore, see Stone pepper, or Stone crop. Stonnard and Ston-chore, see Stonecrop. |