cinquefoil

• There is little in its pages to recall the identity of the editor; but in one place he quotes as follows from Lord Bacon: “The ointment which witches use is made of the fat of children digged from their graves, and of the juices of smallage, cinquefoil, and wolf's-bane, mingled with the meal of fine wheat,” and hopes that none of his readers will try to compound it. —  A Study Of Hawthorne
• The diminutive Robbins 'cinquefoil, restricted to a handful of alpine communities in northern New Hampshire, had suffered for years from trampling and other threats. —  Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth
• 366.--Earl of Chester A cinquefoil, said to have been borne by him on a red Shield, was the device of ROBERT FITZ-PERNEL, Earl of LEICESTER, who died in 1204. —  The Handbook to English Heraldry
• Water parsnip, sweet flag, cinquefoil, bat's blood, deadly nightshade, and oil 3. —  The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology
• Under the windows runs an arcade of blind tracery, two lights to each division, with a cinquefoil ornamented with a sculptured boss above. —  The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See

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