Obs. [a. Fr. ache:—L. apium, ad. Gr. ἄπιον parsley (or some allied plant). The intermed. stages between apium and ache were apio, apje, apche.] An umbelliferous plant; properly the Smallage (i.e., Small-Ache) or Wild Celery (Apium graveolens), but loosely applied also to other species of Apium, and allied genera, as parsley.
c. 1300. in Wright, Lyric P., 26. The primerole he passeth, the parvenke of pris, With alisaundre thare-to, ache ant anys.
1502. Arnold, Chron., 172. Also ete fenel sede corny and ache.
1601. Holland, Pliny (1634), II. 24. As for the garden Ach, commonly called Parsely, there be many kinds thereof.
1865. Pop. Sc. Rev., IV. 199. Celery … having been formerly called Ache in England which is in fact its true English name.
