Crossword-Solution: PEARLWORT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pearlwort | n. | A name given to several species of Sagina, low and inconspicuous herbs of the Chickweed family. |
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| plant with small white flowers that are spherical in bud | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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AEMZEC
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eruption
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Sentences with PEARLWORT (5)
Creevey describes it as growing, along with other wildings of such sweet names or quaint as Celandine, and Dwarf Larkspur, and Squirrel-corn, and Dutchman's breeches, and Pearlwort, and Wood-sorrel, and Bishop's--cap, and Wintergreen, and Indian-pipe, and Snowberry, and Adder's-tongue, and Wakerobin, and Dragon-root, and Adam-and-Eve, and twenty more, which must have got their names from some fairy of genius.
Creevey describes it as growing, along with other wildings of such sweet names or quaint as Celandine, and Dwarf Larkspur, and Squirrel-corn, and Dutchman’s breeches, and Pearlwort, and Wood-sorrel, and Bishop’s--cap, and Wintergreen, and Indian-pipe, and Snowberry, and Adder’s-tongue, and Wakerobin, and Dragon-root, and Adam-and-Eve, and twenty more, which must have got their names from some fairy of genius.
The plant _mōthan_, pearlwort, put in the milk-pail, was a more gentle but quite as sure a method of restoring its virtue to the milk.
The Trailing Pearlwort (_Sagina procumbens_), which grows in very dry places and on old walls, was one of the most efficacious plants against the powers of darkness.
The plant _mòthan_ (_sagina procumbens_), or Trailing Pearlwort, was placed by old women in Tiree above the door, on the lintel (_san àrd-dorus_), to prevent the spirits of the dead, when they revisited their former haunts, from entering the house, and it was customary in many places to place a drink of water beside the corpse previous to the funeral, in case the dead should return.