Crossword-Solution: FLEAWORT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fleawort | n. | An herb used in medicine (Plantago Psyllium), named from the shape of its seeds. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “FLEAWORT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| European plantain | 1 answer |
| Plant reputed to repel insects | 1 answer |
| Plantain named for its seeds, which resemble small insects | 1 answer |
| EUROPEAN herb/herbaceous plant | 38 answers |
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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.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with FLEAWORT (5)
James's wort, or Canker wort, or (near Liverpool) Fleawort, and in Yorkshire, Seggrum; also Jacoby and Yellow Top.
She put divers herbs in it, herbs yielding coloured juices such as safflower and alkanet, and soapwort and fleawort to give consistency or 'body' to the lye; she put in alum and blue vitriol (or sulphate of copper), and she put in blood.
The dingle in which Telscombe lies is rich in flowers; in the Maytime of which I am speaking, there was a profusion of hound's-tongue in bloom, and a good sprinkling of that charming upland plant, deserving of a pleasanter name, the field fleawort; but of what I was searching for, no trace.
Therfield Heath, near Royston, is one of them, a grassy slope where the handsome purple milk-vetch is plentiful, and one may find, though in less abundance, the sprightly field fleawort, which seems more familiar as an ornament of the high chalk Downs.
After the bath they ought to have their loins rubbed with the oil of roses, or that of apples, or of unripe olives; and it is better to make them thick by mixing a little wax with them, and the juice of some cooling herb, such as the house-leek, nightshade, the navelwort, or fleawort.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NY Sun, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (2008–2015).