Crossword-Solution: MUGWORT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mugwort | n. | A somewhat aromatic composite weed (Artemisia vulgaris), at one time used medicinally; -- called also motherwort. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “MUGWORT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| N temperate herbaceous plant with aromatic leaves | 1 answer |
| Shrub related to the wormwood. | 1 answer |
| ARTEMISIA vulgaris | 2 answers |
| wormwood plant | 2 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
MECAZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MUGWORT (5)
People on this occasion wore chaplets of mugwort and vervain, and they looked at the fire through bunches of larkspur which they held in their hands, believing that this would preserve their eyes in a healthy state throughout the year.
And for the same reason they stick burs and mugwort on the gate or the hedge through which the cows go to pasture, because that is supposed to be a preservative against witchcraft.
Cunning old leech-wives treated the French lady with tonics, mugwort, and bogbean, and good wine enow, But, like David of old, she got no heat; and before Yule-tide came, she had prayed herself safely out of this world, and into the world to come.
XIII Top’s Contribution—Making Bows and Arrows—A Brick-Kiln—A Pottery—Different Cooking Utensils—The First Boiled Meat—Mugwort—The Southern Cross—An Important Astronomical Observation.
TOP’S CONTRIBUTION—MAKING BOWS AND ARROWS—A BRICK-KILN—A POTTERY—DIFFERENT COOKING UTENSILS—THE FIRST BOILED MEAT—MUGWORT—THE SOUTHERN CROSS—AN IMPORTANT ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATION.
Quotes with MUGWORT (2)
On Hallows Eve, we witches meetto broil and bubble tasty treatslike goblin thumbs with venom dip, crisp bat wings, and fried fingertips. We bake the loudest cackle crunch, and brew the thickest quagmire punch. Delicious are the rotting flieswhen sprinkled over spider pies. And, my oh my, the ogre brainsall scrambled up with wolf remains! But what I love the most, it’s true, are festered boils mixed in stew. They cook up oh so tenderly. It goes quite well with mugwort tea. So,…
The witch who claims to forbear her magick for fear of causing the next Indian tsunami is really saying that she is powerful enough to kill thousands of innocent strangers when all she meant to do was water her mugwort. She can't be challenged to produce evidence of this, because doing could provoke earthquakes and Africanized bee attacks.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1963).