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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Nut-, Nutemug(g, Notmog, n. Also: nutt-, nowtand -mwg, -mog, -mowg, -mewg, -meg. [ME. and e.m.E. notemug(g)e (14th c.), nu temuge (c 1400), notemygge (14–15th c.), nutmuge (1483), -migge (1541), notmeg (c 1515), nutmeg(g)e (1542), after an OF. or AF. *nois mugue or muge (f. nois nut, mugue, muge musk), unrecorded var. of OF. nois mug(u)ede, mug(u)ete etc. Cf. also Nitmug.] A nutmeg.Also b. Nutmegs, collectively, or ground nutmegs, and c. attrib.(a) 1495 Halyb. 22, etc.
2 li. notmogis 1499 Ib. 180.
A li. notmowgis(b) 1496 Treas. Acc. I. 287.
For half a pund of nutmvgis vj s. viij d. c1580-90 Rules of Health.
Macis and nutmwgis 1597 Household Bks. Jas. VI 30 Apr.
Thre unce ½ nuttmugis 1621 Acc. Bk. Jas. Bell, Mcht., in Glasg. Her. (1864) 25 June.
2 lb. nutmuges, at 6 sh. the lb. 1637 Edinb. Test. LVIII. 243.
Tua pund nutt mewges 1646 Ib. LXII. ii.
Nutmoges 1668 Boyd Fam. P. No. 289.
Haf once nutmegs(c) 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 1725.
Of ane nutemug [1553, nutmog] they maid a monk 1570 Edinb. Test. II. 145 b.
Ane pund … of nutemuggis price … xxxvj s. 1575 Ib. III. 352 b. 1595 Ib. XXVIII. 82.b. 1598 Stirling Ant. III. 308.
Ane wnce nowt[m]ug 1664 Household Bks. Archb. Sharp 107.
For nuttmug lymon maice cloves etc. 1670 Dumbarton B. Rec. 86.
Ane unce of nutmegc. a1606 Dioscoridis Annot. 45 b.
The nut mugg tree