alehoof

[A.S. ealo ale; heafod = head. In Dut. eiloof is = ivy.] A plant, the ground-ivy ( Nepeta glechoma ). It was called alchoof, as being among the old English the chief ingredient in ale. [ALEGILL.] " Alchoof , or ground-ivy, is, in my opinion, of the most excellent and most general use and virtue, of any plants we have among us."- Temple . a-lěide, pa . par. [A.S. alegd = deposed, frightened.] Abolished, put down. "Pes among the puple he put to the reaume, A- leide alle luther lawes that long had been vsed." William of Palerne (ed. Skeat), 5,240.