† herb Ive Obs.
Also herb Ivy, herb Eve.
[a. OF. herbe ive, f. ive, Ajuga Chamæpitys; supposed by Darmesteter to be a fem. deriv. of if yew.]
a. A name for Ground Pine, Ajuga Chamæpitys. b. Buck's-horn Plantain, Plantago Coronopus. c. Buck's-horn or Swine's Cress, Senebiera Coronopus.
| [c 1265 Voc. Plants in Wr.-Wülcker 558/21 Ostragium, i. herbyue, i. liþewurt.] c 1386 Chaucer Nun's Pr. T. 146 Of herbe yue growyng in oure yeerd ther mery is. a 1387 Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 17 Cornu cervi, i. herbive. 1548 Turner Names of Herbes, Coronopus..is called in Cambryge, herbe Iue..it groweth muche aboute Shene aboue London. 1551 ― Herbal i. M ij, Coronopus..is called in Englyshe herbe Iue or Crowfoote plant[ay]ne. 1578 Lyte Dodoens i. xviii. 28 Called in English..Ground Pyne, Herbe Iue, Forget me not, and field Cypres. 1591 Percivall Sp. Dict., Yva, ground pine, herbe Iuie. 1597 Gerarde Herbal ii. xcvi. §2. 347 Buckes horne is called..of many herbe Iuie, or herbe Eue. 1611 Cotgr., Ive arthritique, Hearbe Iue, ground Pine, field Cyprues, Forget-me-not. |