anthos

anthos [ἄνθος] , flower. b (?) flower (fig.). c rosemary. ~os pro quolibet flore secundum Grecos Alph. 9.  b 1346 patria collecta ‥ / hymnis insistens ‥ / in sulcis cantos [? l. cantus] fecit divinitus †antos (Neville’s Cross) Pol. Poems I 43.  c florum borrag’ anthos salvie sicce Gilb. II 121 v. 1; antos flos roris marini Bacon IX 174; pliris et similia que recipiunt majoranam et ~os et conserva florum ‥ herbe paralesis Gad. 65 v. 2; ros marinus frutex est cujus flos ~os dicitur Alph. 155.