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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1699
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Tyme, Time, Thyme, n.2 [ME and e.m.E. thym (Trevisa), tyme (c1420), time (1563), OF thym, med. L. timum, L. thymum.] Thyme. Also attrib. 1566-70 Buch. Comm. on Virgil Eclogues ii 11.
Serpyllum, wyld tyme 1570 Satirical Poems xv 9.
Thow lauand, lurk; thow time, be tint; Thow margelene [etc.] 1500-1699 Herbarius Latinus Annot. xxxiii (Adv.).
Calamentum, wilde tyme a1606 Dioscoridis Annot. 153.
[Serpullum] Anglice vyld tyme, Scotiæ concessa c1614 Mure Dido & Æneas i 510.
Nectar-plenish't cels With thyme and cammomile most sweetly smelsattrib. 1513 Doug. i vii 35.
The hwny smellys of the sweit tyme seid 1532 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I 110.
For latus seid and tyme seid ii s. 1549–50 Treasurer's Accounts IX 385.
Half ane unce tyme seid a1568 Bannatyne MS 83a/84.
In the tyme of winter the north wind waxis kene So bittir bytting that tymeflouris be nocht sene
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