meadwort
English
Alternative forms
- medæwart [16th c.]
Etymology
From Middle English medewort, from Old English medewyrt, medowyrt, corresponding to mead + wort. Cognate with Norwegian mjødurt, Danish mjødurt.
Noun
meadwort (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Meadowsweet, a plant found near rivers or on damp ground.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- The metall first he mixt with Medæwart, / That no enchauntment from his dint might saue; / That it in flames of Aetna wrought apart, / And seuen times dipped in the bitter waue / Of hellish Styx, which hidden vertue to it gaue.
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