wincopipe

English

Noun

wincopipe (plural wincopipes)

1. (obsolete, dialect) The pimpernel flower, Anagallis arvensis.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     There is a small red flower in the stubble fields which country people call the wincopipe; which if it open in the morning you may be sure of a fair day to follow

References

• “wincopipe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.