fumiter

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English

Noun

fumiter (countable and uncountable, plural fumiters)

  1. Obsolete form of fumitory.
    • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
      […] Why, he was met even now
      As mad as the vex’d sea, singing aloud,
      Crown’d with rank fumiter and furrow weeds,
      With harlocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo flow’rs,
      Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow
      In our sustaining corn.
      in the earliest published version, the 1608 quarto, and the Nahum Tate version of 1681, the spelling is femiter)

Middle English

Noun

fumiter

  1. Alternative form of fumyter
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