10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WALL RUE»
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
Same as wall-rue. wall-piece (wal'pés), n. A piece of artillery pre ared for
mounting on the wall of a fortress, as istinguished from one intended for
transportation from place to place; especially, of ancient firearms, a light gun,
along musket, ...
William Dwight Whitney, 1904
... you can see on the other side of the street, at no 57, squeezed between two
buildings and slightly set back, a red-brick medieval tower, Tour Philippe-
Auguste, a piece of the Philippe-Auguste wall. Rue des Rosters Cross the street
and take ...
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
A forfeit paid for withdrawing from a bargain. He said it would cost him a guinea
of rue-bargain to the man who had bought his pony, before he could get it hack
again. Scott, Rob Roy, xxvii. rue-fern (rB'fern), n. Same as wall-rue. rueful (ro'ful),
...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1914
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: A Work of Universal ...
Wall rue. See Asplenium. rue-anemone (ro 'a-nera'o-ne), n. A little American wild
flower, Anemone thalictroides, resembling both anemone and meadow-rue. me-
bargain (ro'bar'gan), n. 1. A bad bargain. HallUrell. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.]— 2.
William Dwight Whitney, 1906
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The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the ...
Wall rue. w See A*i>l( nium. rue-anemone (ro'a-nem'o-ne), n. A little American
wild flower, Syndesmon thalictroides, resembling both anemone and meadow-
rue. rue-bargain (r8'bar*gan), n. 1 . A bad bargain. Halliwell. [Prov. Enig. and
Scotch.] ...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1914
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
See harmel and Peg a num. — Wall rue. w See A splenium. rue-anemone (ro^a-
nem^o-ne), n. A little American wild flower, Syndesmon thalictroides, resembling
both anemone and meadow-rue. rue-bargain (ro'bar*gan), n. 1 . A bad bargain.
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Wayside and Woodland Ferns: A Pocket Guide to the British ...
Wall Rue (Asplmium rufa-muraria). The Wall Rue, or Rue-leaved Spleenwort, is
one of the smallest of our ferns, and one that is easily overlooked by the tyro.
Usually only two or three inches in height—though in favoured localities as much
as ...
8
The Encyclopedia of Superstitions
Had the girl been unable to obtain the right herb, rue-fern would have done as
well, provided she had plucked it from a plant growing on the churchyard wall.
Rue could be used to cure a variety of ills, but according to one country tradition,
...
Edwin Radford, Mona Augusta Radford, Christina Hole, 1961
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Culpeper's Complete Herbal & English Physician
Culpeper. These be the herbs as the college set down to look upon, we will see if
we can translate them in another form to the benefit of the body of man. Herbs
temperate in respect of heat, are common Maiden-hair, Wall-rue, black and ...
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The English Physician Enlarged: With Three Hundred and ...
... fair, and well coloured ; for which Purpose some boi.lit i : Wine, putting some
Smallage Seed thereto, and afterwards tome Oil. The Wall Rue is as effectual as
Maiden Hair, in all all Diseases of the Head, orfallingand recovering of the Hair ...
