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ˈmotherwort
Also 4–6 moderwort(e, 5 moderuurt, modir-wort, modyr worte, 6 motherwoorte, 6–7 motherworte, 8 motherworth.
[f. mother n.1 (in sense 11) + wort.]
1. A name for various plants formerly supposed to be valuable in diseases of the womb; now chiefly applied to Leonurus Cardiaca; formerly often to the mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris.
a1387Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 36/2 Regina prati, moderwort. 14..Stockholm Med. MS. ii. 247 in Anglia XVIII. 313 Off modir-wort I wyl þe tellyn..Off þat erbe arn spycys iij. c1440Promp. Parv. 341/2 Modyr worte, herbe (or mugworte, infra), artemesia. c1450Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 106/2 Matricaria aquatica..modeuurt. 1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) A ij, Arthemisia queene of Caria, founde the vertues of motherworte, which in latyne bearith her name. 1548Turner Names of Herbes 50 Lycopus is called of the commune Herbaries Cardiaca, in englishe Motherwurt. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 350 Take of Camomile and Motherwort, of each two or three handfuls. 1747Wesley Prim. Physic (1762) 88 A Decoction of Mother Wort. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 319 Mother-wort, Leonurus. 1807T. Thomson Chem. (ed. 3) II. 431 Some are brown... Others blue, as camomile, mother⁓wort. 1856Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. (1861) IV. 179.
2. man's motherwort (see man n. 21). stinking motherwort, Chenopodium vulvaria.
1578Lyte Dodoens v. iv. 549, I haue named it in Englishe, The ranke stinking Goate, or stinking Motherwort. |