meadwort
English
Alternative forms
- medæwart [16th c.]
Etymology
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, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
- 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.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
Anagrams
- damewort, metaword, to meward, two-armed, wardmote