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ˈneckweed
[f. neck n.1]
†1. The plant hemp (with ref. to the use of hempen rope for hanging persons). Also attrib.
1562[see gallow-grass]. 1588Marprel. Epist. (Arb.) 17 A cawdell of Hempseed, and a playster of neckweed. 1611in Coryat's Crudities L 2 b, The neck-weed-gallow-grasses sapling plant. 1620J. Taylor (Water P.) Praise Hempseed Wks. (1630) iii. 66/2 Some call it Neck-weed, for it hath a tricke To cure the necke that's troubled with the crick. 1681T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 4 (1713) I. 23 Have a care your Tutors do not give you some of the Salad de Gascon, which we call Neck-weed [printed-week], for it is apt to make a Man laugh but on one side of his Mouth.
2. U.S. (See quots.)
1846–50A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. 406 Veronica Agrestis. Neckweed. Field Speedwell. 1860W. Darlington Amer. Weeds, etc. 227 Veronica peregrina,..Foreign Veronica. Purslane Speedwell. Neckweed. Ibid., It was at one time supposed to possess medicinal virtues in scrofulous affections—which acquired for it the name of ‘Neckweed’. |