a. (sb.) Obs. Forms: see prec. [ad. med.L. iacint(h)inus, iacinctinus, for L. hyacinthinus.] Consisting of jacinth; hyacinthine.
1382. Wyclif, Exod. xxv. 5. Skynnes iacynktynes. Ibid. xxviii. 37. A iacynctyne filete.
1430–40. Lydg., Bochas, VIII. xii. (MS. Bodl. 263), ff. 379/2. Fourti stonis Iacynctyne.
B. sb. The hyacinth (flower).
1513. Douglas, Æneis, XI. ii. 30. The purpour flour, hait iacynthyne [ed. 1555 iacinctyne].
So † Jacinthinous (in 5 -cinct-) a., of the color of jacinth, dark purple.
1495. Trevisa’s Barth. De P. R., XVII. cxi. 674. The fruyte of the oliue is fyrste … grene and thenne reddysshe other iacinctinous [Bodl. MS. iacinctines] and at the laste blacke.
