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[gosting
Explained in Johnson and some later Dicts. as ‘madder’: taken from 1736 Ainsworth Thesaurus 1, ‘Gosting (herb), Rubia’. In the Eng.-Lat. part there is: ‘Rubia, Rubia tinctorum, an herb called gosling weed or clivers; madder’. Thus gosting in Ainsworth is a mistake for gosling weed, which does not mean, however, ‘madder’, but ‘goose-grass’ or ‘cleavers’.
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