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Any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium
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wormwood
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n. 1 (context botany English) An intensely bitter herb (''Artemisia absinthium'' and similar plants in genus ''Artemisia'') used in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic. 2 Anything that causes bitterness or affliction.
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Wormwood is a fantasy sequel to Graham Taylor's Shadowmancer . It follows the adventures of the book's two main protagonists, Dr. Sabian Blake and his servant girl, Agetta Lamian. The work is a Christian allegory. The work, like its predecessor, was criticised ...
Usage examples of wormwood.
Less inured to tough setbacks, too riled to accept the wormwood of defeat, the senior enchantress paced the shed in mincing steps and balked tension.
Moist pith of farls of bread, the froggreen wormwood, her matin incense, court the air.
Coltsfoot and fenugreek, sage and wormwood, betony, fennel, hock and melilot were all said to be efficacious, at times.
Its odour is lemon-like, and depends on a volatile essential oil which consists chiefly of absinthol, and is common to the other Wormwoods.
Only in the painting, the wormwood leaves turned the Allegheny black as death shortly before the confluence.
Arctic bramble, the sloe, goat-weed, Mexican goosefoot, speedwell, wild geranium, veronica, wormwood, juniper, saffron, carduus benedictus, trefoil, wood-sorrel, pepper, mace, scurry grass, plantain, and betony.
Other sprays that can be used effectively against them include garlic spray, onion spray, wormwood tea or soap spray.
You keep too many secrets, Wormwood, and pull more surprises from your sleeve than a gleeman.
Ruskin and Morris, Gilbert Scott, Vanbrugh, Inigo Jones and Wren to name but a few had all lent their influence to a building that combined the utility of a water-tower with the homeliness of Wormwood Scrubs.
Around him, the wormwood and sedge tussocks looked ratty, hugging the ground.
Todd was an ardent lover of herbs, both wild and tame, and the sea-breezes blew into the low end-window of the house laden with not only sweet-brier and sweetmary, but balm and sage and borage and mint, wormwood and southernwood.
The monsters entered the maze of wormwood passages within the greenish biopolymer walls.
Again in the case of all things which exhale from their body a pungent smell, all-heal, nauseous wormwood, strong-scented southernwood and the bitter centauries, any one of which, if you happen to [feel it] lightly between two [fingers, will impregnate them with a strong smell] * * but rather you are to know that idols of things wander about many in number in many ways, of no force, powerless to excite sense.
Bushes sprouted green leaves along the jagged drainages, the pungent scents of willow and wormwood wafting on the breeze.
It was overrun with Roman wormwood and beggar-ticks, which last stuck to my clothes for all fruit.