Obs. Also 5 vetoyne, 6 Sc. vetoun, veyton, 7 vett’ny. [a. AF. *vetonie, OF. vetoine, var. (after L. vettonica) of betoine BETONY.] The plant betony.
a. 1400. Stockholm Med. MS., ii. 99, in Anglia, XVIII. 310. Betoyne is þe erbis name, And vetonye eke in same.
c. 1440. in Thornton Romances, p. xxxvi. Take vervayne, or vetoyne, or filles of wormod, and make lee therof.
1549. Compl. Scot., vi. 67. I sau veyton, the decoctione of it is remeid for ane sair hede.
1568. Skeyne, The Pest (1860), 25. Of herbis…. Pimpinell, Vetoun, Finkill.
a. 1689. Mrs. Behn, trans. Cowley’s Plants, C.’s Wks. 1711, III. 295. From Spanish Woods the wholsom Vett’ny came, The only Glory of the Vettons Name.
