inwyrm
Old English
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editinwyrm m
- an internal or intestinal worm
- c. 9th century, Bald's Leechbook, published in Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman conquest (1865, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green), edited and with translations by Oswald Cockayne, volume I, page 4
- Herba arniglosa, þæt ys, weġbræd...wiþ inwyrmas
- The herb arniglosa, that is, waybread...[used] against intestinal worms
- c. 9th century, Bald's Leechbook, published in Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman conquest (1865, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green), edited and with translations by Oswald Cockayne, volume I, page 4