couslip

English

Noun

couslip (plural couslips)

1. Obsolete spelling of cowslip
   • 1551, Thomas Rainold, A Compendious Declaration of the Excellent Vertues of a Certain Lateli Inuentid Oile, Callid for the Vuorthines Thereof Oile Imperial. Vuith the Maner Hou the Same Is to Be Usid, to the Benefite of Mankind, Against Innumerable Diseasis., Ioan. Gryphius:

     Take of the floures of roſemarie, ſage, betoni, yſope, Gelifloures, primroſes, Couſlips, damaſk roſes, of eache of theſe floures the waight of .vi. pẽs: […]

   • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Gardens”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 267:

     In Aprill follow, The Double white Violet; The Wall-flower; The Stock-Gilly-Flower; The Couſlip;

   • 1732, The Hive. A Collection of the Most Celebrated Songs., volume IV, London: […] J. Walthoe, […], page 53:

     When couſlips, and daiſies, and daffadils ſpread, / And adorn, and perfume the green flow’ry mead;