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(Waybred,) Wabred, -bret, Vabried, -brat(t, Wa(y)burne, Wabrune, -broun, n. [ME and e.m.E. weibrode (c1265), weybrede (Trevisa), waybrede (1538), OE weᵹbrǽde, MLG, MDu. wegebrede. Also in the later dial.] Plantain. Also attrib. with leiff (Lefe n.¹). — c1500 Makc. MS xiii 69.
Hec plantago, a wabred 1500-1699 Herbarius Latinus Annot. xix (Bot.).
Wabret 1500-1699 Herbarius Latinus Annot. xix (Adv.).
Vabrat, vabratt —attrib. 1500-1699 Herbarius Latinus Annot. xix (Bot.).
Aruoglossa, vabried leiff 1609 Craig-Brown Selkirkshire I 180.
Being demandit if she gave drinks, she answered she gave nane bot off waburne leavis for the hart-axes 1623 Lanark Presb. 1.
Comperis Besse Smythe in Lesmahego, and confesses hir charming of the heart feawers, and that by knielling they socht thair healthe … that she appoyntit thame the wayburne leaf to be eattin nyne morningis 1639–43 Ellon Presb. 146.
[He] did give him … the wabrune leafe and new beir 16… McPherson Prim. Beliefs 248.
For the barne bed she gave the fever fuilyis, the red netill, seige and wabroun leaff