10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ADDERWORT»
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Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England: ...
-e, fem., oakrind, cortex quernus. Lacn. 12. Ache, apium. Gl. MS. Vitell. c. iii. fol.
10 b. ~Zi\Lvov. Adrelwort,/euer/ue. GL Harl. 978. Abpemmt, parthenium. Lex.
Somner. These seem to be errors for Adderwort. See Na;bbeppypt. jEbs, abies. -
55.
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Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England: Læce ...
In case a man swallow poison, take then hore- hound, work up a mickle deal of it,
and adderwort, pound them together and wring the juice, pour thereon three
measures of wine and give this to the poisoned man to drink. For hurt from snake
...
Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Sextus Placitus (Papyriensis.), Dioscorides Pedanius (of Anazarbos.),
1865
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Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England: ...
In case a man swallow poison, take then horehound, work up a mickle deal of it,
and adderwort, pound them together and wring the juice, pour thereon three
measures of wine and give this to the poisoned man to drink. For hurt from snake;
...
Thomas Oswald Cockayne,
1865
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It Has Helped to Admiration: Eighteenth-Century Medical ...
Snakeweed and adderwort are both synonyms for bistort (Polygonum bistorta), a
powerful astringent used to stop bleeding in the treatment of diarrhea and bowel
complaints and as a gargle to harden gums. Gerard 1633, 400, says that the ...
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On the Popular Names of British Plants: Being an Explanation ...
... from its spike of capsules having some fancied resemblance to that reptile's
tongue, Ophioglossum vulgatum, L. Adderwort, the snakeweed or bistort, from its
writhed roots, Polygonum Bistorta, L. Affadyl, M. Lat. affodillus, from L.
asphodelus, ...
Richard Chandler Alexander Prior,
1879
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AQUIRE: Aquatic Information Retrieval Toxicity Data Base : ...
... Typha sp Cat-Tail TR TRAC 18 1410 Utricularia sp Bl adderwort TR TRAC 18
510 Utricularia vulgaris Common Bl adderwort TR TRAC 18 1596 Vallisneria
americana Water-Celery, Tapegrass TR TRAC 18 1412 Vallisneria sp Water-
Celery, ...
Rosemarie C. Russo, Anne Pilli, Environmental Research Laboratory (Duluth, Minn.),
1985
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A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
'adder,' snake, serpent, viper, Mt; AO, CP. nǣdrewyrt (der)f.adderwort. næfde pret.
3sg.of nabban. næfebor (A 9∙263 3 ) = nafūgar næfig (NG) = næftig næfne =nefne
nǣfre (ē)adv.'never,' B,Bo, Bl,G;CP.[ne, ǣfre] næfst v. nabban. næft f. need, ...
John R. Clark Hall, Herbert Dean Meritt,
1898
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Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England: ...
In case a man swallow poison, take then horehound, work up a mickle deal of it,
and adderwort, pound them together and wring the juice, pour thereon three
measures of wine and give this to the poisoned man to drink. For hurt from snake;
...
Thomas Oswald Cockayne,
2012
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Medieval medical miniatures
But the most striking feature is the root, wrapped about with a coil of serpents,
which later hands have labelled adderwort and basilisca. In the text it says that
basilisca or adderwort grows in the places where adders are, and that it is useful
...
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Leechcraft: Early English Charms, Plant Lore, and Healing
This herb which one calls 'viperina' and by another name 'adderwort' is produced
in water and in fields, it is soft-leaved and bitter in tasting. Adder. 1. For an
adder's bite take this same uiperinam, pound it, mix with wine, give it to drink, it
heals ...