Obs. Also (? erron.) tolmeiner, tol(l)meyner. [app. = toll (= draw or attract) me near: see TOLL v.1, see TOLL v.1, and cf. COLMENIER.] A name for the Sweet William.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, II. viii. 157. The floures grow at the toppe of the stalkes, many clustering togither after the manner of Tol-me-neers, or sweete Williams. Ibid., xiii. 334. They are taken for Sweete Williams or Tolmeyners.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, II. clxxiv. § 4. 480. [The great Sweete William and the narrow leafed Sweete William are called] sweete Williams, Tolmeiners, and London Tuftes.
1629. Parkinson, Paradisus, 320. Armerius, or Armeria. In some places they call the broader leafed kindes that are not spotted, Tolmeiners, and London tufts; but the speckled kinde is termed by our English Gentlewomen, for the most part, London pride.