dill

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. An aromatic herb (Anethum graveolens) native to Eurasia, having finely dissected leaves and small yellow flowers clustered in umbels.
2. n. The leaves or seeds of this plant, used as a seasoning.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. An umbelliferousplant, Peucedanum (Anethum) graveolens, an erect glaucous annual, with finely divided leaves, yellow flowers, and an agreeably aromatic fruit. It is a native of the Mediterranean and Caucasian region, is a weed in many countries, and is frequently cultivated in gardens. It is extensively grown in India, where the seeds are much used for culinary and medicinal purposes. They yield a volatile oil having a lemon-like odor, and the distilled water is used as a stomachic and carminative, and as a vehicle fot other medicines.
2. n. The two-seeded tare.
3. To dull; blunt.
4. 2. To soothe; still; calm.
5. n. Same as dell.
6. To conceal; hide.
7. n. An obsolete dialectal form of dole.

Wiktionary

1. n. Anethum graveolens (the sole species of the genus Anethum), is a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, and were formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; also known as dillseed.
2. n. A cucumber pickled with dill flavoring, also called a dill pickle.
3. n. informal a fool.
4. v. To still; to assuage; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain.
5. v. To lull to sleep.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Bot.) An herb (Peucedanum graveolens), the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, and were formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; -- called also dillseed.
2. v. obsolete To still; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. aromatic Old World herb having aromatic threadlike foliage and seeds used as seasoning
2. n. aromatic threadlike foliage of the dill plant used as seasoning