nettle
noun
any plant of the genus Urtica, covered with stinging hairs.
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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If he be well, it will nettle him in spite of resignation.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Mrs. Thomson