† senvy Obs.
Forms: 3 senei, 3–4, 6 senevey, 4 senevei, 4–5 seneveye, 4, 6 senevy, synevey, 4–7 senvey, 5 senvyne, senefee, synewey, 6 senvye, synvy, sinvy, 6–7 senvie, seny, 7 seenie, seeny, (sceny), 5–8 senvy.
[a. OF. senevé, also -vei, -vel, -vil (mod.F. sénevé):—pop.L. *sināpātium, f. sināp-i mustard.]
1. The mustard plant: see mustard n. 2.
| c 1265 Voc. Plants in Wr.-Wülcker 554/9 Sinapium, [Fr.] seneuel, [? Eng.] senei. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. clv. (1495) 705 Senueye hyghte Sinapis..and though all the herbe in substaunce be kene and feruent: yet Bein louyth beste the floures of senuey. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 349/1 Mustard, or warlok, or se(n)vyne, herbe (MS. S. senwyn), sinapis. 1572 J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 76 b, Q. Beareth Argent and verte..6 leafes de Senuye d'Or. 1578 Lyte Dodoens v. lv. 618 There be two sortes of Senuie, the tame & the wilde, wherof also the tame or garden Senuie is of two sortes. Ibid. 619 The seconde kinde of tame Mustarde..whiche is the blacke Mustarde & common Senuy. 1584 Cogan Haven Health xxviii. 44 Senuie..bringeth foorth that seede whereof mustard is made. 1597 Gerarde Herbal ii. ix. 190 The second kinde [of Mustard may be called] common Mustarde, or fielde Senuie. 1600 Surflet Country Farm ii. xxxvi. 244 Senuie or mustard delighteth in a fat ground. 1601 Holland Pliny xx. xxii. II. 73 The hearbe Senvey, whereof there be three kinds. 1759 Mills tr. Duhamel's Husb. ii. ii. 267 The wheat seemed to have disappeared, to make room for a prodigious quantity of senvy, which looked extremely well. |
2. = mustard seed 1.
| 1382 Wyclif Matt. xiii. 31 The kyngdam of heuenes is like to a corn of seneuey. Ibid. xvii. 19 Ȝif ȝe shulen haue feith, as a corn of seneuey. c 1422 Hoccleve Min. P. 240 If yee haue as mochil feith as is the greyn of Senefee. a 1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 85, I putte noȝt..in..ouer þe quantite of a corne of senvey. c 1440 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 610 Senvy let sowe hit now. c 1440 Gesta Rom. 41 If ye haue feith, as moche as hath þe corn of synewey. 1505 Will of Jerard (Somerset Ho.), Beryng yerely to the heyre a pownd of Senvye. 1533 Elyot Cast. Helthe (1539) 86 He that in suche wyse will vomite, let him eate hastyly..town⁓keris, rokat, synuy, or purslane. 1578 Lyte Dodoens v. lv. 619 The Mustarde, especially the seede which men cal Senuie, is hoate and dry, almost in the fourth degree. a 1618 Rates Marchandises M 4, Garble of Seny the pound ij.d. |
3. Comb.: senvy-seed = mustard seed 1.
| 1298 in Rogers Agric. & Pr. II. 174/2 Seneueyseed. 13.. Sloane MS. 5 lf. 11/2 Sinapis, tam semen quam herba..A(nglice) Seneuy sed. c 1440 Pallad. on Husb. viii. 149 A sester and a semycicle take Of senuey seed. c 1450 ME. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 212 Seneueye seed. 1565 Cooper Thesaurus, Sinapi, senuie seede wherof mustarde is made. 1606 Rider Lat.-Eng. Dict., Sinape,..seenie seed. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts 518 White Sceny-seede..being put into broath..will [etc.]. 1678 Littleton Lat.-Eng. Dict., Sinape,..seeny seed... Eng.-Lat., Senvie seed. |