Also 6–7 swines-bread. [Cf. G. schwein(s)brot, mod.L. panis porcinus.]

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  † 1.  The plant Cyclamen; = SOWBREAD. Obs.

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1591.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. iii. 704. Swines-bread, so used, doth not only speed A tardy Labour; but (without great heed) If over it a Child-great Woman stride, Instant abortion often doth betide.

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1648.  Hexham, I. Herbs, Sow bread, or Swyne bread.

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  † 2.  Truffles. Obs.

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1677.  Miége, Fr. Dict., Trufe, Sow-bread, or swine bread (a most dainty kind of round and russet root).

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1696.  trans. Du Mont’s Voy. Levant, vi. 68. Tis not so hard Task to know the delicious Earth-Apples or Swine-bread [orig. Trufes].

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1755.  Johnson, Swinebread, a kind of plant; truffles.

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  3.  Locally applied to the earth-nut or pig-nut, Bunium flexuosum.

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1888.  Sheffield Gloss., Pig-nut, sb. the earth nut. Bunium flexuosum. Called Swine-bread in Inverness-shire.

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