SC - was dill seed used?

[Vicki Strassburg]

Interesting info from the OED about dill which may help in its uses.
~Maedb

C. 1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. xxiii. 23 Wa eow, boceras..(asg)e pe teodiad
mintan and dile and cymyn. 

C. 1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 20 Wip heafod ece (asg)enim diles blostman. 

A. 1387 Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 10 Anetum, dile vel dille. 

C. 1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 167 Nowe sette in places colde, senvey and
dyle. 

1578 Lyte Dodoens ii. xc. 270 They sowe Dill in al gardens, amongst
wortes, and Pot herbes. 

1590 Spenser F.Q. iii. ii. 49 Had gathered rew, and savine, and the flowre
Of camphora, and calamint, and dill. 

1612 Drayton Poly-olb. xiii. 218 The wonder-working Dill..Which curious
women use in many a nice disease. 

1627 Drayton Agincourt, etc., Nymphidia 127 Therewith her Veruayne and her
Dill, That hindreth Witches of their will. 

THE OED SAYS DILL IS ALSO KNOWN AS ANET AND HERE's STUFF ON THAT:

C. 1265 in Wright Voc. 140 Anetum, anete, dile. 

1382 Wyclif Matt. xxiii. 23 Woo to 3ou, scribis and Pharisees..that tithen
mente, anete [v.r. anese] and comyn. 

1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. lxxi. (1495) 645 The sede of Ferula is
lyke to Annet. 

1533 Elyot Cast. Helth (1541) 76 Oyle of camomyll, oyle of anete, and
other lyke. 

1540 R. Wisdom in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. App. cxv. 317 To tyth mint &
annett; 

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