Obs. [OE. fille, app. shortened from cerfille, CHERVIL.] ? = CHERVIL.

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  In Wr.-Wülcker, 323 (c. 1050) it glosses serpillum, which properly means thyme. Halliwell’s Dict. has ‘Fill, the plant Restharrow,’ but gives no authority.

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c. 1000.  Sax. Leechd., 34. Fille and finule.

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a. 1310.  in Wright, Lyric P., xiii. 44.

        The lilie is lossom to seo,
  the fenyl ant the fille.

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