Meadwort

Alternative forms

• medæwart 16th c.

Origin

Old English medewyrt, medowyrt, corresponding to mead + wort. Cognate with Norwegian mjødurt, Danish mjødurt.

Full definition of meadwort

Noun

1. (obsolete) Meadowsweet, a plant found near rivers or on damp ground.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:The metall first he mixt with Medæwart,
  That no enchauntment from his dint might saue;
  That it in flames of Aetna wrought apart,
  And seuen times dipped in the bitter waue
  Of hellish Styx, which hidden vertue to it gaue.

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