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Danewort   Listen
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Danewort  n.  (Bot.) A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood. Note: (Said to grow on spots where battles were fought against the Danes.)






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"Danewort" Quotes from Famous Books



... bones; incense, with cheap resin and benzoin. But the thing that was worse was that the substances, indispensable to the holy sacrifice, the two substances without which no oblation is possible, had also been debased: the wine, by numerous dilutions and by illicit introductions of Pernambuco wood, danewort berries, alcohol and alum; the bread of the Eucharist that must be kneaded with the fine flour of wheat, by kidney beans, potash and ...
— Against The Grain • Joris-Karl Huysmans



Words linked to "Danewort" :   elderberry bush, Sambucus, Sambucus ebulus, genus Sambucus, dwarf elder



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