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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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ALLICOMPAIN, ALACAMPINE, ALIGOPANE, n. Sc. forms of elecampane, the plant, or the extract from it used in medicine, or the sweetmeat flavoured with the latter. (Similar forms — e.g. alycompaine, allicampane — are or have been current in England.)Sc. 1691 Account Bk. of Sir J. Foulis (S.H.S. 1894) 140:
For tablets and alacampine roots confected . . . 6 [shillings].Sc. 1886 Britten and Holland Eng. Plant Names 506:
Aligopane. (A Scottish corruption of Elecampane), Inula Helenium, L. — Jolly Life of John Duncan 250.Sc. 1911 S.D.D.:
Alacampine . . . a coarse candy.Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl. 18:
Allicompain — Enula Campana, the medical plant; the Elecampain of materia medica. . . . [He quotes “an old song”:] Whan howstin made me unco' sair, Whan my poor breast wad rack and rair, I drank the broe — it haled me fair, The broe o' Allicompain O!