Also 3–6 anete, 4–6 annet(t, ennet. [a. Fr. anet, aneth:—L. anēthum, a. Gr. ἄνηθον, dial. form of ἄνῑσον dill, anise; the two carminatives being originally confounded. See ANISE.] The herb Dill (Anethum graveolens).

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c. 1265.  in Wright, Voc., 140. Anetum, anete, dile.

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1382.  Wyclif, Matt. xxiii. 23. Woo to ȝou, scribis and Pharisees … that tithen mente, anete [v.r. anese] and comyn.

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1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. lxxi. (1495), 645. The sede of Ferula is lyke to Annet.

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1533.  Elyot, Cast. Helth (1541), 76. Oyle of camomyll, oyle of anete, and other lyke.

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1540.  R. Wisdom, in Strype, Eccl. Mem., I. App. cxv. 317. To tyth mint & annett.

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1617.  Minsheu, Anet; Vide Dill.

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1736.  Bailey, Househ. Dict., Anet or Dill, a plant much resembling fennel.

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1811.  Hooper, Med. Dict., Anethum, Fennel, dill, anet.

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  b.  Comb. anetseed, the seed of Anet or Dill (sometimes confounded with ANISEED).

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1549.  Compl. Scotl., vi. 67. Ennetseidis that consumis the ventositeis of the stomac.

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1549.  Latimer, 7 Serm. bef. Edw. VI. (Arb.), 165. Their doctrine was vnsauery, it was but of Lolions, of decimations of Anets seade, and Cummyn and suche gere.

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1571.  Wills & Inv. N. Count. (1835), II. 363. Ij lb. of annetseedes xvjd.

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