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An herb, the wall pellitory. See Pellitory.

Any plant of the Lily family or order. Lindley.

A ranunculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups.

a genus of perennial herbs. It was said to make sheep that fed on it lousy. Yellow lousewort , a plant of the genus Rhinanthus.

esp. M. Virginica and M. Sibirica) plants nearly related to Pulmonaria. The American lungwort is Mertensia Virginica, Virginia cowslip. Gray. Cow's lungwort mullein. -- Sea lungwort, Mertensia maritima, found on the seacoast of Northern Europe and America. -- Tree lungwort, a lichen (Sticta pulmonacea) growing on tre…

See Sundew.

A name proposed for any plant of the same natural order (Rubiaceæ) as the madder.

A genus of cruciferous plants (Alyssum) with white or yellow flowers and rounded pods. A. maritimum is the commonly cultivated sweet alyssum, a fragrant white-flowered annual.

Any plant of the order Malvaceæ.

A tall and coarse European umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Ostruthium, formerly Imperatoria).

The oxeye daisy.

The name of several plants of the genus Spiræa, especially the white- or pink-flowered S. salicifolia, a low European and American shrub, and the herbaceous S. Ulmaria, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.

A genus of plants (Polygala) of many species. The common European P. vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses.

Discomfort. [Obs.]

Producing misfortune. [Obs.]

Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance. Consider why the change was wrought, You 'll find his misfortune, not his fault. Addison.

Unfortunate. [Obs.]

To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.

To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of. Locke.

To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.