Obs. [a. OF. warance (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.; also 13th c. in Wr.-Wülcker, 556/19; 15th c. in Alphita, 155) = mod.F. garance madder.] = MADDER sb.1
1525. Grete Herbal, ccclxvii. (1529), U iv. Rubea the more … is the herbe that warence or madder is made of. Ibid., ccccxvii. Z j b. Spargula … is lyke to warence in leues.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, Suppl., Warence is Madder.
1665. Lovell, Herball (ed. 2), 464. Warence, see Madder.
