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wormwood |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wormwood \Worm"wood\, n. [AS. werm?d, akin to OHG. wermuota wormuota G. wermuth, wermut of uncertain origin.] 1. (Bot.) A composite plant ({Artemisia Absinthium}), having a bitter and slightly aromatic taste, formerly used as a tonic and a vermifuge, and to protect woolen garments from moths. It gives the peculiar flavor to the cordial called absinthe. The volatile oil is a narcotic poison. The term is often extended to other species of the same genus. 2. Anything very bitter or grievous; bitterness. Lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood. --Deut. xxix. 18. {Roman wormwood} (Bot.), an American weed ({Ambrosia artemisi[ae]folia}); hogweed. {Tree wormwood} (Bot.), a species of Artemisia (probably {Artemisia variabilis}) with woody stems. {Wormwood hare} (Zo["o]l.), a variety of the common hare ({Lepus timidus}); -- so named from its color. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: wormwood n : any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Wormwood Heb. la'anah, the Artemisia absinthium of botanists. It is noted for its intense bitterness (Deut. 29:18; Prov. 5:4; Jer. 9:15; Amos 5:7). It is a type of bitterness, affliction, remorse, punitive suffering. In Amos 6:12 this Hebrew word is rendered hemlock" (R.V., "wormwood"). In the symbolical language of the Apocalypse (Rev. 8:10, 11) a star is represented as falling on the waters of the earth, causing the third part of the water to turn wormwood. The name by which the Greeks designated it absinthion, means "undrinkable." The absinthe of France is distilled from a species of this plant. The southernwood" or "old man," cultivated in cottage gardens on account of its fragrance, is another species of it
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