Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hawk-weed, Hieracium venosum, of the eastern half of the United States.
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Examples
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Wherever the snakes grow, there the rattlesnake-weed grows.
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"Oh, Mis 'Persis," said Dolly, after a pause of awe and horror, "what is rattlesnake-weed?"
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Well, he come and brought a bag of rattlesnake-weed with him, and he made poultices of it and laid all over her stomach and breast and hands and feet, and he made a tea of it and got some down her throat, and kep 'a feedin' on it to her till she got so she could swallow.
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"Of course he did," said Mis 'Persis, as decidedly as if she had been a trained theologian, "that's what rattlesnake-weed was made fer; any fool can see that."
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Everywhere the rattlesnake-weed grows in profusion.
At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe Margaret Fuller 1830
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Everywhere the rattlesnake-weed grows in profusion.
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 Margaret Fuller 1830
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"The rattlesnake-weed and the bluet-bloom were unknown to Herrick and to Wordsworth, but such art as Mr. Cawein's makes them at home in
Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses Madison Julius Cawein 1889
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