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lyb-corn

  • noun [ neuter ]
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lyb-corn, es; n.
'A grain of purgative effect, especially the seeds of various euforbias, probably also of some of the gourds, as momordica elaterium, cucumis colocynthis,'
  • Cockayne Lchdm. ii. 397, col 2
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  • Libbcorn

    catharticum,

    • Wrt. Voc. 67, 8
    • .
  • Libcorn

    lacyride,

    • 67, 73
    • :

    tytymalosca,

    • 68, 55
    • .
  • Lybcorn

    cartomo,

    • ii. 14, 14;

    lattyride,

    • 54, 23
    • :

    cartam,

    • 103, 53
    • ;

    chartamo,

    • 76
    • :

    catarticum, potus,

    • 129, 43
    • .
  • Wyrc útyrnendne drænc genim fíf and hundeahtatig lybcorna

    make a purgative drink thus; take eighty-five purgative seeds,

    • Lchdm. iii. 18, 12
    • :
    • 20, 1
    • .
  • Wyrc óðerne [spíwdrænc] of beóre and of feówertig lybcorna,

    • 20, 10
    • .
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  • lyb-corn, n.