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lupulus

lupulus [ML] 1 wolf-cub (also fig.). nimis caro vendidit nobis ~um suum Anselm (Ep. 271) IV 186; lupus exclamat: “‥ / ‥ / congruus obses erit lupulus meus ‥” Walt. Angl. app. 8 p. 377; lupus esuriens protulit hec lupulo Ib. p. 379. 2 (bot.): a sorrel. b hop. a detur ygia etc. ‥ mixtis cum apozimate lilifagi, vel longe melius ~i que acedula vocatur Gilb. IV 188. 1; ~us ‥, i. e. acedula optimus [sic], equipolet benedicte Ib. VI 272. 1; ~us, swredok MS BL Sloane 405 f. 12.  b ~us multum assimilatur rubo ferenti mora set spinis caret ~i, lebleve Alph. 106; Turner Herb. B ii v (v. 2 lupus 4d); Levins Manip. 169 (v. 2 humulus a).

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