Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name formerly given to several plants, as the comfrey, the daisy (Bellis perennis), the bugle (Ajuga reptans), and the wild larkspur (Delphinium Consolida).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A name applied loosely to several plants of different genera, esp. the comfrey.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun botany, obsolete Any of several plants of different genera, especially the comfrey.

Etymologies

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Corrupted from French consoude, from Latin consolida comfrey (so called because supposed to have healing power).

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Examples

  • He names as the others “Mr. Longfellow, Mr. Emerson and Mr. Oliver Wendell Holmes—consound the lot!”

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • He names as the others “Mr. Longfellow, Mr. Emerson and Mr. Oliver Wendell Holmes—consound the lot!”

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • "This is Saracen's consound," he said, skillfully folding the gauze into a tidy square with the ends tucked in.

    Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

  • At the words "consound the lot," Twain had expected a peal of laughter, but to his amazement "the expression of interest in the faces turned to a sort of black frost."

    Twain, Mark: Selected Obituaries 1910

  • "Mr. Longfellow, Mr. Emerson, and Mr. Oliver Wendell Holmes-consound the lot!"

    Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells. 1910

  • "Mr. Longfellow, Mr. Emerson, and Mr. Oliver Wendell Holmes -- consound the lot!"

    The Story of a Speech 1910

  • _climax_ -- consound that word, I never did know what it meant -- to clap the climax, Ned sends for Gholson and gets Quinn to speak to him civilly -- aw, haw, haw!

    The Cavalier George Washington Cable 1884

  • "Mr. Longfellow, Mr. Emerson and Mr. Oliver Wendell Holmes -- consound the lot!"

    Chapters from My Autobiography Mark Twain 1872

  • "Mr. Longfellow, Mr. Emerson, and Mr. Oliver Wendell Holmes -- consound the lot!"

    Mark Twain's Speeches Mark Twain 1872

  • “Then consound it, we’ve fooled away all this work for nothing.

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 2003

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