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Lombard (iou) and Veratrum viride (medicine)


Lombard (iou)



Lombard noun1 & adjective. ME.
[Middle Dutch, Middle Low German lombaerd or French lombard from Italian lombardo (medieval Latin lombardus) repr. late Latin Langobardus, Longo-, Latin langobardi (Tacitus) from Germanic, from base of LONG adjective1 + ethnic name Bardi. Cf. LANGOBARD, LONGOBARD. See also LUMBER noun2.]
A. noun.
Hist. A member of a Germanic people from the lower Elbe who invaded Italy in the 6th cent. and founded a kingdom named Lombardy after them. ME.
A native or inhabitant of the region of Lombardy in north central Italy. Formerly spec., one engaged in banking, money-changing, or pawnbroking; hence any banker, money-changer, or pawnbroker. LME.
The Italian dialect of modern Lombardy. L16.
A bank, a money-changer's or moneylender's office; a pawnshop. Cf. LUMBER noun2. E17-L18.
b. adjective. Of or pertaining to the Lombards or Lombardy; Lombardic. ME.
Special collocations & comb.: Lombard band Architecture a shallow pilaster dividing a wall into bays. Lombard Street [a street in London, orig. occupied by Lombard bankers and still containing many of the principal London banks] the money market, financiers as a body; Lombard Street to a China orange, great wealth against one ordinary object, virtual certainty.
Lom'bardian adjective = LOMBARDIC adjective M19.
Lombardism noun a Lombardic idiom E19.
Lom'bardo- combining form. [after Italian Lombardo-Veneto] Lombardic and : L19.

Veratrum viride (medicine)


Veratrum viride


The dried rhizome and roots contain therapeutically important alkaloids (cevadine, veratridine, jervine, pseudojervine, rubijervine, and several ester alkaloids of the base germine) used in the treatment of hypertensive disorders.