lunarius

lunarius [ML] 1 lunar; b (of a species of dog) that bays at the moon (by misr. of limarius). 1234 cujus anni circulus ~ius fuit nonodecimus Rec. Leic. I 60. b est et ~ium [genus], quod nihil aliud quam excubias agit, quam insomnes noctes totas protrahit baubando ad lunam Caius Can. 8. 2 of Monday: a (nox ~ia) Monday night. b (as sb. m.) customary tenant owing Monday-work. a s1249 contigit nocte ~ia proxima ante festum S. Andree ‥ quod J. M. ‥ furatus fuit xxxj d. a bursa W. W. Ann. Tewk. app. 515. b c1182 idem facient cotmen et †binarii [? l. lunarii] RB Worc. 367. 3 (as sb. f., bot.) var. plants bearing crescent-shaped leaves or white flowers. ~ia major, asterion; ~ia minor lunary MS BL Sloane 3545 f. 7v; ~ia purgeþ þe colre þe whyche hatz a bleu flour MS Camb. UL Dd. 11. 45 f. 150v; linaria major, vasterion. linaria minor, moneherbe MS BL Royal 12 E i f. 95; †lunacia [l. lunaria], respice in merula Alph. 104; merula, †limacia [l. lunaria] idem Ib. 113; ~ia is of two kyndes, the one is called in Latine ~ia major . ‥ It maye be called in English great lunari. Some cal it Shalut. The other kinde is called in Latin ~ia minor, which may be called in Englishe litle lunary or maye grapes Turner Herb Names H 3. 4 (alch.) silver (cf. 1 luna 6). quando est ad ~iam perductum, destilla ~iam a calcibus et iterum repone Ripley 337.

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