Obs. exc. poet. Forms: 5 eglantere, 45 eglenter, -ier. [a. OF. esglantier, aiglantier (mod.F. églantier), f. aiglant (see EGLANTINE1) + -ier, as in ros-ier rose-tree, etc.] = EGLANTINE1
a. 1387. Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.), 12. Bedegar est nodus rosæ albæ silvestris, vulgari nomine, eglenter.
1459. Test. Ebor. (1855), II. 226. Ij gilt peces with ij coverkills with treiles of eglenters.
a. 1500. Flower & Leaf, viii. The hegge With sicamour was set and eglatere. Ibid., xii. I Thought suddenly I felt so swete an air Of the Eglantère.
1830. Tennyson, Dirge, 23. The woodbine and eglatere Drip sweeter dews than traitors tear.