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

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smallage

Take the juice of smallage or lovage, and mix with any kind of bait.

From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs

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

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

Trisper′mum, a poultice made of the crushed seeds of cummin, bay, and smallage.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

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