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Burdock. World English Historical Dictionary

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Burdock. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Burdock Bot. [f. BUR sb.1 + DOCK sb.]

1   1.  A coarse weedy plant (Arctium Lappa, and kindred species) common on waste ground, bearing prickly flower-heads called burs, and large leaves like those of the dock.

2 1597.  Gerard, Herbal, cclxxvi. § 1. 664. The great Burre is called … Great Burre, Burre Docke, or Clot Burre.

3 1605.  Timme, Quersit., III. 181. Take … of the seedes … of the burdock.

4 1794.  Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xxvi. 383. The Burdock, whose heads sometimes fasten themselves to your clothes as you pass.

5 1859.  Tennyson, Holy Grail, 570. A bedmate of the snail and eft and snake, In grass and burdock.

6 1860.  All Y. Round, No. 48. 510. The hooks of the burdock cling to the passing animal, and are carried … miles away.

7   b.  Rarely applied to Xanthium strumarium (Small Burdock or BURWEED). c. Prairie Burdock, of N. America (Silphium terebinthinaceum), having leaves like those of the burdock.

8   2.  attrib., as in burdock-leaf, -root.

9 1607.  Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 281. Take a handful of Sorrel, and lay it in a Bur-dock leaf.

10 1764.  Gale, in Phil. Trans., LV. 245, note. A pultice of burdock-root pounded.

11 1872.  Black, Adv. Phaeton, xix. 268. The mighty burdock-leaves … beloved of painters.

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