fumiter

English

Noun

fumiter (countable and uncountable, plural fumiters)

  1. Obsolete form of fumitory.
    • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act IV, Scene 4, (in the earliest published version, the 1608 quarto, and the Nahum Tate version of 1681, the spelling is femiter)
      […] Why, he was met even now
      As mad as the vex’d sea, singing aloud,
      Crown’d with rank fumiter and furrow weeds,
      With harlocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo flow’rs,
      Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow
      In our sustaining corn.

Middle English

Noun

fumiter

  1. Alternative form of fumyter
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