Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name sometimes given to ground-ivy or gill, from the shape of its leaves, and to Gnaphalium dioicum, from its soft flower-heads. Also called
cat's-paw .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant (
Nepeta Glechoma ) of the same genus with catnip; ground ivy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
plant (Nepeta Glechoma) in the samegenus ascatnip ;ground ivy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun low-growing perennial herb having leaves with whitish down and clusters of small white flowers
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"This," wrote Forbes, on hearing of the proposal, "is a new system of military discipline truly, and shows that my good friend Burd is either made a cat's-foot of himself, or little knows me if he imagines that sixty scoundrels are to direct me in my measures." [
Montcalm and Wolfe Francis Parkman 1858
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