also LION’S TEETH
ETYMOLOGY
from the French Dent de lion (lion’s tooth) (Latin Dens leonis)
EXAMPLE
“… It is temperate, cold, and drye with Roses and Uineger tepered togeather, it helpeth the hed in hotte diseases, the sowthistle called Sonchos hath ye same vertue & so hath Cicory: if they be sodden, the loose the belly & quencheth heat which burneth in the stomacke and defendeth the head from hot smoking vapoures, and purgeth yellow choller, and rebateth venerous & fleshly heat, & is good to be sodden & dronk in hote burning Agues: though this herbe be commonly knowen and counted of many as a vile wede, yet it is reported of Dioscorides to be an excellent herbe, & is called Lyons teeth. …”
From: Bulleins Bulwarke of Defence against all Sicknesse, Soarenesse, and VVoundes that doe dayly assaulte mankinde
By William Bullein, 1562
“The Booke of Simples”
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