Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A composite plant, Eupatorium perfoliatum, common in eastern North America.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
boneset .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several plants of the genus
Eupatorium . - noun The
common boneset .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"But I had to take a big bowlful of bitter thoroughwort tea," she added, making a little face at the remembrance.
A Little Maid of Old Maine Alice Turner Curtis
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"Well, you are a better medicine than thoroughwort tea," said Lucia; and
A Little Maid of Old Maine Alice Turner Curtis
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The bitters will keep good almost any length of time, and is an excellent remedy for bilious complaints, and can often be taken when the thoroughwort tea will not sit on the stomach.
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Make a strong tea of the thoroughwort -- strain it, and when cool, put to
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Strings of dried apples are festooned from chamber windows; and paper bags of catnip and spearmint and thoroughwort and penny-royal and mullen hang drying on the garret walls.
Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Fanny Fern
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Persis Tame, who turned her back and fell to picking thoroughwort blossoms as he came up.
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-- Take the leaves of motherwort and thoroughwort, and the bark of poplar root; equal parts.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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"Don't go worryin ', Mary, an' start to brew him some thoroughwort in the hope of havin 'him down with a fever."
The Wall Between Sara Ware Bassett 1920
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As they searched for thoroughwort, and picked the tender spruce and pine tips, they all talked of the coming May-day, but Amos soon began to look about for a good place to make his fire.
A Little Maid of Province Town Alice Turner Curtis 1912
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The conversation became at once professional after the briefest preliminaries, and he would stand twirling a sweet-scented sprig in his fingers, and make suggestive jokes, perhaps about her faith in a too persistent course of thoroughwort elixir, in which my landlady professed such firm belief as sometimes to endanger the life and usefulness of worthy neighbors. 3
Mrs. Todd 1910
mollusque commented on the word thoroughwort
The conversation became at once professional after the briefest preliminaries, and he would stand twirling a sweet-scented sprig in his fingers, and make suggestive jokes, perhaps about her faith in a too persistent course of thoroughwort elixir, in which my landlady professed such firm belief as sometimes to endanger the life and usefulness of worthy neighbors.
--Sarah Orne Jewett, 1896, The Country of the Pointed Firs
January 28, 2010