smallage

American  

[smaw-lij] / ˈsmɔ lɪdʒ /

noun

1. the celery, Apium graveolens, especially in its wild state.

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smallage British  

/ ˈsmɔːlɪdʒ /

noun

1. an archaic name for wild celery

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Etymology

Origin of smallage

1250–1300; Middle English smalege, smalache, equivalent to smale small + ache parsley < Old French < Latin apium celery, parsley

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smallage

Take a drachm and a half of trochisk of myrrh; ten grains of musk with the juice of smallage; make twelve pills and take six every morning, or after supper, on going to bed.

From The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy by Aristotle

How is one to know how much smallage was got for a penny in mid-seventeenth century?

From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Anne MacDonell

In the square garden, with its pointed picket-fence, that ran along the road, I saw clusters of smallage, and thickets of delicate fennel.

From Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

The principal herb was smallage of extraordinary size, which they eat raw, or boiled in their broth, and of which they brought away a considerable quantity of juice in bottles.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. by Robert Kerr

Chop the smallage exceeding small, and put it in a good half hour before you are to take your possnet from the fire.

From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Anne MacDonell

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