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† gall-wort Obs.
[f. gall n.1 + wort.]
A name for Toad-flax (Linaria vulgaris), and perh. for the Lesser Centaury (Erythræa Centaurium).
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. 135 b, Take..Gall-wort, beastes Loongwort, Planten leaues [to cure the ‘sicknesse of the Gall’ in cattle]. 1587L. Mascall Govt. Cattle (1600) 277 For the staggars in a hog, giue him of the hearbe called starewort or gallwort in milke, and he shall amend. 1657W. Coles Adam in Eden 313 It is called also Toad-Flax..and Flax-weed; in Sussex, Gallwort. |