raspis
noun1
Obsolete a raspberry
- And men themselves contented well with plaine and simple foode, That on the earth by natures gift without their travell stoode, Did live by raspis ...1567, Arthur Golding, The.xv.Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled metamorphosis:
- It were good to keepe some of the juyce of raspis-berries in some wooden vessel, and to make it, as it were, raspis wine.1597, William Langham, The Garden of Health:
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- In this manner you may preserve Raspices and Mulberries.1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, page 8: