parsley (parsli)

[Formerly also parsly, parsely, persely, dial. parsil; = terselie, D. peter sel i lige = OHG. pedersilli, petrasile, MHG. G. peter silie Dan. petersille, also persille = Sw. per silja ( MLG. peters i lie, pettercil soups and other dishes; and for garnishing it is a great favorite on account of its much-divided, finely cut, and crisped leaves, which, however, in the wild plant are plain. In the Nemean games the victors' crowns were of parsley. A variety, the Hamburg parsley, is grown for its large root, which is used in soups, etc., or as a separate dish. Parsley yields the drug apiol. Parsley-leaves are often chewed to neutralize the scent of onions. The parsley-plant is dangerously mimicked by the fool's - pars ley. See below. Quinces & peris Ciryppe with parcely rotes rizt so bygynn your mele. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 172. Her glorious head is compast with a Crown, Not made of Olive, Pine, or Lawrell bough, Nor Parsly Wreath, which Grecians did allow Th' Olympian games for signals of renown. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Triumph of Faith, i. 11. IMG:content-2386.png:[blocks in formation] A -parsleyt, an old name of some umbelliferous plant, perhaps the same as fool's-parsley. - Bastard parsley, the umbelliferous genus Caucalis. - Black parsley, a shrubby plant, Thapsia ( Me lanose linum ) decipiens, of Madeira, with simple stem and umbrella-like crown of fine foliage, three or four feet in diameter. - Corn-parsley, a grainfield weed, Carum ( Pet rose linum ) segetum, of the Old World. Cow-parsley. Same as cow - chervil. - Fool's-parsley, a fetid poisonous umbellifer, Æthus a Cynapium, with the aspect of the common parsley, but without the curled leaves of its usual cultivated forms, and having long hanging involucels. It is an Old World plant sparingly naturalized in the eastern United States.-Oil of parsley. See oil. Square parsley, Carum ( Ptychotis ) he terophyllum, of Switzerland, etc. (See also bur - parsley, hedge- parsley, hemlock - parsley, horse - parsley, etc.) parsley-camphor (pärs'li-kam"for), n. Same as apiol. rock-brake.