Crossword-Solution: TANSIES 7 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

And in the spring they make of them excellent Minnow-tansies; for being washed well in salt, and their heads and tails cut off, and their guts taken out, and not washed after, they prove excellent for that use; that is, being fried with yolk of eggs, the flowers of cowslips and of primroses, and a little tansy; thus used they make a dainty dish of meat.

Curlews, larks an’ tewits,[2] all have gone frae t’ moors, Frost has nipped i’ t’ garden all my bonny floors; Roses, lilies, pansies, Stocks an’ yallow tansies Fade away, an’ soon the leaves ’ll clutter[3] doon i’ shoors.

The air is balmy; the smiling lawns are gay with a thousand little flowers, dandelions, rock-roses, tansies and daisies, among which the harvesting Bee rolls gleefully, covering herself with pollen.

PERCH-FISHING On the far hill the cloud of thunder grew And sunlight blurred below; but sultry blue Burned yet on the valley water where it hoards Behind the miller's elmen floodgate boards, And there the wasps, that lodge them ill-concealed In the vole's empty house, still drove afield To plunder touchwood from old crippled trees And build their young ones their hutched nurseries; Still creaked the grasshoppers' rasping unison Nor had the whisper through the tansies run Nor weather-wisest bird gone home.

Their meat was such fowl as could be gotten, dressed after the English fashion and with English sauces, creams, puddings, custards, tarts, tansies, English apples, _bon chrétien_ pears, cheese, butter, neats' tongues, potted venison, and sweetmeats brought out of England, as his sack and claret also was.