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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete spelling of marigold.

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Examples

  • You are as gay as a marygold: and I wear your colors, thou laughing mother of mischief!

    Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's, 1872

  • So in cornfields we have the scarlet poppies, the purple corn-cockle, the yellow corn-marygold, and the blue cornflower; while on our moors the purple heath and the dwarf gorse make

    Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

  • And when the boy called him at the hours of prayer, saying, "My Father, it is now time for the Nones office, for the marygold is closing," or

    Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

  • When these insects have been developed, their destruction may be secured by either one of the following remedies: calomel, applied in powder, or suspended in water; black wash; creosote and water; an infusion of the marygold; chloroform; elder juice; an infusion of elder leaves and flowers; and various other applications, which it is unnecessary to mention.

    An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863

  • It was in vain Wolfert's wife remonstrated; it was in vain his darling daughter wept over the destruction of some favourite marygold.

    Tales of a Traveller 1824

  • It was in vain Wolfert's wife remonstrated; it was in vain his darling daughter wept over the destruction of some favorite marygold.

    Tales of a Traveller Washington Irving 1821

  • You gaze, and are first struck with its matchless window: call it rose, or marygold, as you please.

    A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

  • «You gaze, and are first-struck with its matchless window: call it rose, or marygold, as you please.

    Rouen, It's History and Monuments A Guide to Strangers Th��odore Licquet 1809

  • As the marygold that openeth its leaves when the sun riseth, and closeth when it goeth down again, so exactly doth our spiritual constitution follow the motions of his countenance, and depend wholly on them.

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

  • The flowers of french marygold (tagetes patu - la) feparated from their calices, were fubjefted to the fame trials.

    Elements of the Art of Dyeing Claude-Louis Berthollet 1791

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