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broklempe

Brooklime \Brook"lime`\, n. (Bot.) A plant ( Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is Veronica Americana. [Formerly written broklempe or broklympe.]

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Prior tells us that the name Brooklime is in old writers Broklempe or Lympe, from its growing in the lime or mud of brooks, the Anglo-Saxon word lime, coming from the Latin limus, a word that from mud used in the rude buildings of Anglo-Saxon times, has come to be applied to the calcareous stone of which mortar is now made.