Meaning of margeline | Babel Free

Definitions

A type of herb referred to by Pliny as "asyla"; potentially chickweed or ivy-leaved speedwell.

no-plural, obsolete

Examples

“sheepe […] hate and abhor the female Pimpernell […] : howbeit, in case they should […] tast the Pimpernell with the blew floure, presently they have recourse (by a naturall instinct) to an hearbe for remedie called in Greeke Asyla, and by us in Latine Ferus oculus, [i. the wild and cruell eye, or Margellane.]”

CEFR level