thoroughwort
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of thoroughwort
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The walls were hung with old clothes and dried herbs,—catnip and tansy and thoroughwort.
From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin
How to Cure Hysterics.—Take the leaves of motherwort and thoroughwort, and the bark of poplar root; equal parts.
From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs
Mullein, motherwort, thoroughwort, golden-rod, everlasting, burdock-leaves, may-weed, must all be dried and hung up in the garret.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various
The first person he met was Miss Persis Tame, who turned her back and fell to picking thoroughwort blossoms as he came up.
From Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature by Various
“But I had to take a big bowlful of bitter thoroughwort tea,” she added, making a little face at the remembrance.
From A Little Maid of Old Maine by Alice Turner Curtis
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