Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The peppergrass, chiefly Lepidium sativum.

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Examples

  • -- Nothing all day long but play -- play -- play, laughing and running, and walking, and going to see all the shops and sights, and going out in the coach to bring home radishes and tongue-grass, to be sure -- and every thing in the house is to be as she pleases, to be sure.

    Tales and Novels — Volume 01 Maria Edgeworth 1808

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