. A dictionary of the Bible .. . > The best anise, he adds, comesfrom Crete; and next to it that of Egypt is pre-ferred (Plin. H. N., XX. 17). Forskal { 154) includes the anise {Janisun, Arabic =)in the JIateria Medica of Egypt. Dr. Koyle is de-cidedly in favour of the dilH being the propertranslation, and says that the anethum^ is moreespecially a genus of Eastern cultivation than theother plant. The strongest argument in favour ofthe dill, is the foot that the Talmuds (Tract, Mass-roth, c. iv. §5) use the word shdbdth to expressthe dill, The seeds, the leaves, and the stem
. A dictionary of the Bible .. . > The best anise, he adds, comesfrom Crete; and next to it that of Egypt is pre-ferred (Plin. H. N., XX. 17). Forskal { 154) includes the anise {Janisun, Arabic =)in the JIateria Medica of Egypt. Dr. Koyle is de-cidedly in favour of the dilH being the propertranslation, and says that the anethum^ is moreespecially a genus of Eastern cultivation than theother plant. The strongest argument in favour ofthe dill, is the foot that the Talmuds (Tract, Mass-roth, c. iv. §5) use the word shdbdth to expressthe dill, The seeds, the leaves, and the stem ofdill are, according to Rabbi Eliezer, subject to tithe ;and in connexion with this it should be stated, thatForskal several times alludes to the Anethum grave-olens as growing both in a cultivated and a wildstate in Egypt, and he rises the Arabic name forthis plant, which is identical with the Hebrew word,viz. Sjoebet, or Schibt {Descr. Plant. 65, 109).. Pimpinella Anisum. Common Dill. (Anelhum graveolens.) To & afie0v*^t jL), anisum, v. Gol. Arab. Lex, s. v. d Dill, so called from the old Norse word, the nurseslullaby? to diU=to soothe. Hence the name of the car-minative plant, the dilling or soothing herb (see Engl. Etymol.) ?^ avriOou : irapo. to avio 6eiy, Bi,&. rrji iv Tax^t auji)<rti{Etijm. Mag. ed. Gaisford). xii ANT Celsius remarks ii]ion the dilTeience of opinionamongst the old authors who have noticed thisplant, some maintaining that it has an agreeabletaste and odour, others quite the opposite; the so-hition of the difficulty is clearly that the matter issimply one of opinion. There is another plant very dissimilar in externalcharacter to the two named above, the leaves andcapsules of which are powerfully carminative. Thisis the a
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