Succory

Forms: 6 suckorie, -ery(e, -erie, succoury, -arie, -orye, succhory, 6–7 succorie, 7 suckary, succoreye, 8 succury, 6– succory. [Alteration of cicoree, sichorie, sycory, old forms of CHICORY, q.v., after MLG. suckerîe, MDu. sûkerîe (Du. suikerei, older Flem. suykerey, succory).]

  1.  The plant Cichorium Intybus (N. O. Compositæ), with bright blue flowers, found wild in England, esp. by roadsides. Also, its leaves and roots used medicinally and as food (cf. CHICORY, ENDIVE).

  Also called for distinction wild succory.

1533.  Elyot, Cast. Helth (1541), 28 b. Cykorie or suckorie is lyke in operation to lettise.

1548.  Turner, Names Herbes (E.D.S.), 44. Intybus syluestris is of two sortes, the one is called in latin Cichorium, and in englishe Succory or hardewes.

c. 1550.  Lloyd, Treas. Health, G j b. The ioyce of Succorye put into the eare or nostrel that is on the contrary syde to the grefe taketh away vtterly the tooth ache.

1655.  Culpepper, etc., Riverius, I. i. In Summer we can allow a moderate use of Herbs,… as Endive, Succory, Sorrel.

1697.  Dryden, Virg. Georg., I. 182. And spreading Succ’ry choaks the rising Field.

1736.  Bailey, Houshold Dict., s.v., Succory pounded and put under the left nipple eases the heart-ache.

1750.  Phil. Trans., XLVI. 377. He had taken, for some Days, a Decoction of wild Succory.

1833.  Macaulay, Ess., War Success. Spain (1897), 239. The conquerors were trying to manufacture coffee out of succory, and sugar out of beet-root.

1880.  Jefferies, Gt. Estate, 131. The blue succory and the scarlet poppies stand side by side in the yellow wheat.

  2.  Applied with qualifying words to other composites, chiefly of the tribe Cichoriaceæ:

  Garden Succory: = ENDIVE 1 b. Gum Succory: see GUM sb. 9 b. Hog Succory: = Swine’s Succory (b). Lamb Succory, the genus Arnoseris (Treas. Bot.). Poison Succory, Aposeris fœtida (ibid.). † Rush (Rushy) Succory: see RUSH sb.¹ 7. Swine’s Succory, (a) dwarf nipplewort, Arnoseris (Lapsana) pusilla; (b) the genus Hyoseris. Wart Succory: = Swine’s Succory (a). † Yellow Succory, Picris hieracioides.

1538.  Turner, Libellus, Intubum, Suckery, Ryght gardyn wylde.

1548.  [see GUM sb.² 9 b, RUSK sb.¹ 7].

1548.  Turner, Names Herbes (E. D. S.), 42. Hieracium … may be called in englishe greate Haukweede or yealowe Succory. Ibid., 44. Intybus hortensis is of two sortes, the one is called Endyue, or whyte Endyue, & the other is called gardine Succory.

1597.  Gerarde, Herbal, II. xxix. 224. Blewe gum Succorie. Ibid., 225. Yellowe gum Succorie. Ibid. Rushie gum Succorie hath a tough and harde roote. Ibid., 226. The male Swines Succorie hath a long and slender roote.

1601.  Chester, Love’s Mart., etc. (1878), 82. Mosse of the Sea, and yellow Succorie, Sweete Trefoile, [etc.].

1728.  Bradley, Dict. Bot., Swine’s Succory or Hawksweed.

1760.  J. Lee, Introd. Bot., App. 328. Succory, Wart, Lapsana.

1776.  Withering, Arrangem. Veget., 493. Hyoseris Minima … Small Swine’s Succory.

1829.  Lindley, Synops. Brit. Flora, 157. L[apsana] pusilla.… Swine’s succory.

  3.  attrib., as succory leaf, plant, powder, root, seed; succory broth, water, a decoction made from succory, used as a cooling draught; succory dock-cress, nipplewort, Lapsana communis; succory hawkweed, the genus Crepis.

1809.  Med. Jrnl., XXI. 393. It may be taken … mixed with syrup of *succory broth.

1857.  Miss Pratt, Flower. Pl., III. 218. Common Nipple-wort … is sometimes called Swine’s-cress, and *Succory Dock-cress.

1776.  Withering, Arrangem. Veget., 486. Crepis Tectorum … Smooth *Succory Hawk-weed.

1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, II. iv. 60/1. He beareth Argent, a *Succory Leaf, Vert.

1831.  J. Davies, Manual Mat. Med., 122. Succory leaves.

1876.  Encycl. Brit., V. 614/2. The Chicory or *Succory plant.

1867.  Brande & Cox, Dict. Sci., etc. III. 637/2. If *succory powder be present [in coffee].

1570.  in Gutch, Coll. Cur. (1781), II. 7. *Suckerye rotes and parsnip rotes.

1832.  Veg. Subst. Food of Man, 304. The succory root … is … cut in pieces, and … dried to admit of its being … ground.

1665.  Hooke, Microgr., 156. *Succory Seeds are like a Quiver full of Arrows.

1670.  Temple, Lett., Wks. 1731, II. 222. A Glass of *Succory-Water.

1822.  Scott, Nigel, xvi. Drink succory-water to cool your blood.

1839.  G. P. R. James, Louis XIV., III. 296. And drinking a glass of succory water, she was suddenly seized with violent pain.