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salicinus

salicinus [CL salix+-inus], consisting of or derived from willow or willow wood. b (w. fossatum) planted or edged with willow, osier, withy, or sim.. c (carbo ~us) charcoal made from willow or sim. (used in manufacture of gunpowder). d (as sb.) grove or plantation of willows, osier- or withy-bed. fiat inunctio cum oleo mirtino ~o Gilb. IV 200. 2; 1425 de xx d. pro iiij virgis cilicivis [? l. salicinis] ad ij altaria Ac. Churchw. Bath 31.  b s1301 fecit fieri unum stagnum novum cum fossato ~o ex una parte Whittlesey 154; s1304 alios tres holmos de marisco circuivit fossato ~o ac fraxinis et quercubus Ib. 156.  c 1387 carbonum ~orum KR Ac 183/12 f. 24; c1390 iij m li. pulveris gunnorum, j barello pulveris carbonum salisinorum Tout Papers II 271.  d 1461 unum cotagium cum salisino eidem cotagio adjacente in Kyavene Cl 311/313 (cf. CalCl 50: †salismo).

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