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

Example Sentences

Let it remain three or four days, to have the smallage absorb the brandy—then put in as much more brandy as the bottle will hold.

From The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner by Anonymous

And you will not find smallage or anything of the same nature given to any other horses in the whole "Iliad."

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

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 Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

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 MacDonell, Anne