 | David Lindsay - 1806 - 546 pages
...signifying Co play the inconstant : So in Troil. and Cres. he says: " But canst thou playin racket to and fro, Nettle in, docke out, now this, now that, Pandare ?" RAD, advised, counselled: part. pa. of rede: So, rod, in O. Eng. Chaucer ; radde, R. of Glo'ster... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 520 pages
...only with a touch, Unshooes the new-shod steed." [Round-dock, the common mallow, malva syleestris, called round-dock from the roundness of its leaves....a good deal puzzled the glossarists : " But canst thou playin raket to and fro, Nettle in, docke out, now this, now that, Pandare ?" The round-dock leaves... | |
 | John Brand - 1855 - 520 pages
...only with a touch, Unshooes the new-shod steed." [Round-dock, the common mallow, malva sylvestris, called round-dock from the roundness of its leaves....has a good deal puzzled the glossarists: " But canst thon playin raket to and fro, Nettle in, docke out, now this, now that, Pandare ?" rubbed on the stung... | |
 | James Jennings - 1869 - 258 pages
...over-ripe. \ To Rough. va To roughen ; to make rough. Round-dock. s. The common mallow ; rtialva sylveslris. Called round-dock from the roundness of its leaves....But canst them playin raket to and fro, " Nettle in, Liocke out, now this, now that, Pandare ?" Troilus and Cressida, Book IV. The round-dock leaves are... | |
 | James Jennings - English language - 1869 - 256 pages
...over-ripe. To Rough. va To roughen ; to make rough. Round-dock. s. The common mallow; malva sylvestris. Called round-dock from the roundness of its leaves....a good deal puzzled the glossarists : " But canst thou playin raket to and fro, " Nettle in, Docks out, now this, now that, Pandare !" Troilus and Gressida,... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt - Fasts and feasts - 1905 - 366 pages
...around, around, around.' " Chaucer, in Troilus and Cresseidc, writes : " But canst thou playinraket to and fro, Nettle in, docke out, now this, now that. Pandare— " It appears from a communication to " Notes and Queries," that friction with a dock-leaf was then... | |
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The round-dock leaves are used at this day as a remedy, or supposed remedy or charm, for the sting of a nettle, by being rubbed on the stung part; and the rubbing is accompanied, by the more superstitious, with the following words— In dock, out nettle... 