Obs. Forms: α. 4, 6 sticados, 6 stycados, stichados; β. 6–7 stechados, 7 stœ-, stæchados, stæ-, stecados, stecadose; 6 stechado, steckado, 7 -doe. See also STICKADOVE, STICKADOOR. [a. med.L. sticados, stecados etc., corrupt forms of L. stœchados genit. of stœchas STŒCHAS.] French Lavender, Lavandula stœchas.

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  α.  1516.  Gt. Herbal, cccxc. (1529), X iv b. Sticados citrine is called barba iouis…, and hercules grasse. De stycados Arabyke. Sticad[o]s arabyke is an herbe that groweth in sharpe places & hylles.

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1542.  Boorde, Dyetary (1870), 288. Mayden-heere, and stycados. Ibid., 289. Sticados.

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1562.  Turner, Herbal, II. 148. The broth of stichados … is profitable and good for the diseases of the breste.

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  β.  1578.  Lyte, Dodoens, I. lxi. 89. Golde floure Motheworte, or Golden Stechados.

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1591.  Percivall, Sp. Dict., Cantuesso, stechado.

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1597, 1611.  Steckado [see STICKADOVE].

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1621.  Burton, Anat. Mel., II. iv. I. v. 448. Camomile, Stœchados,… &c. to be vsed after bathing.

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1639.  O. Wood, Alph. Bk. Secrets, 3. Wherein infuse some Stœchados. Ibid., 26. The flowers of Stæcados. Ibid., 227. Stecadose, or French Lavander, opens all stoppings in body.

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1641.  French, Distill., ii. (1651), 57. The flowers of Stechados.

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