Crossword clues for hyssop
hyssop
- Potherb mint
- Bitter leaves used sparingly in salads
- Dried flowers used in soups and tisanes
- European mint
- Aromatic herb of the mint family
- Small bushy plant with bitter minty leaves
- Plant of mint family
- Passing mention
- Herb, hint of scent in bouquet recalled by husband
- Henry's bouquet wrapped up small flower
- Mint family herb
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hyssop \Hys"sop\, n. [OE. hysope, ysope, OF. ysope, F. hysope, hyssope, L. hysopum, hyssopum, hyssopus, Gr. ?, ?, an aromatic plant, fr. Heb. [=e]sov.] A plant ( Hyssopus officinalis). The leaves have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste.
Note: The hyssop of Scripture is supposed to be a species of caper ( Capparis spinosa), but probably the name was used for several different plants.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English ysope, from Irish Latin hysopus, from Greek hyssopos, a plant of Palestine, used in Jewish purification rites, from Hebrew 'ezobh (compare Syriac zupha, Arabic zufa).
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several aromatic bushy herbs, of the genus ''Hyssopus'', native to Southern Europe and once used medicinally 2 Any of several similar plants 3 # (taxlink Agastache foeniculum species noshow=1), (vern: blue giant hyssop) 4 (context obsolete US English) The sage brush 5 (context biblical English) A plant used used for sprinkling of blood or water in purification rituals and at Passover, (taxlink Origanum syriacum species noshow=1)
WordNet
n. a European mint with aromatic and pungent leaves used in perfumery and as a seasoning in cookery; often cultivated as a remedy for bruises; yields hyssop oil [syn: Hyssopus officinalis]
bitter leaves used sparingly in salads; dried flowers used in soups and tisanes
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "hyssop".
I had brushed it, though, and it floated loose around my shoulders, smelling pleasantly of the hyssop and nettle-flower infusion I combed through it to keep lice at bay.
To make Hyssop tea, one drachm of the herb should be infused in a pint of boiling water, and allowed to become cool.
They advocate bloodletting, laxatives, hot fomentations, a potion of hydromel mixed with hyssop, and lozenges made from galbanum and turpentine resin.
Beds of other old-fashioned plants were set in the parterres, as well as such herbs as hyssop, savory, thyme and rosemary, mingling with pinks, pansies, violas and cistus.
He fed Rhodry infusions of coltsfoot and elecampe to bring up the phlegm, hyssop and pennyroyal to make him sweat, and quaking aspen as a general febrifuge.
The bruised herbs raised a sharp aromatic smell, of sage and rosemary and sweet minty hyssop that shed anthrophora bees and golden butterflies in clouds before the horses' hooves.
Our bodies are our gardens, to the whichour wills are gardeners: so that if we will plantnettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed upthyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, ordistract it with many, either to have it sterilewith idleness, or manured with industry, why, thepower and corrigible authority of this lies in ourwills.
In it were crushed petals and stems of fennel, hyssop, bee balm, sour camomile, woodsy sage, and other plants.
Royle disagrees, and identifies the Hyssop of the Bible with the Caper-plant (Capparis spinosa) which grows in the Jordan Valley, in Egypt, and the Desert, in the gorges of Lebanon, and in the Kedron Valley.
And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
But they understood those antibiotic properties—'Smite me with hyssops, and I shall be clean,' the Bible says.
So far, all I had on that was the reference to hyssops in the Bible—a slim reed indeed.
The Hyssop of commerce (Hyssopus officinalis) occurs in Palestine, but is not conspicuous among the numerous Labiatae of the Syrian hillsides, which include thyme and marjoram, mint, rosemary and lavender.
But she was still going on about God's love and a shower of golden light and a pure vessel molded as Her Son's bride, who would be clothed with the odor of sanctity granted to all saints beloved of God when in facteven in a chamber strewn with dried lavender and honeysuckle to sweeten the closed-in scent of winter and sachets of hyssop and mint to drive off fleas and verminhe could smell her, an odor like milk gone sour.
Besides the common garden vegetables, there were Yellow-Dock, Lemon Balm, Hyssop, Gill-go-over-the-ground, Mouse-ear, Chick-weed, Roman Wormwood, Elecampane, and other plants.