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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Mekil(l)wort, n. Also: -wourte. [Mekil(l a. Only Sc. Cf. also Mikillwort and Mukillwort.] The plant belladonna or deadly nightshade. Also attrib. b. A drink made of deadly nightshade berries. —1533 Boece xii. ij. 456 b.
This mekilwort … is ane herbe of grete quantite … having liquore provocative to sleip
15.. Herbarius Latinus Annot. (Adv.) lvi.
Elleborus albus mekill wort
1633 Dalyell Darker Superst. 153.
Ane little pig of oyle maid of mekillwort
attrib. 1531 Bell. Boece II. 148.
The iusse of mekilwourte beryis
b. a1538 Abell 4* b.
Danvs the 4 tyme come in Scotland & drank mekilwort

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