melilot

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Continental physicians still employ the same made of melilot, wax, resin, and olive oil.

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  1. noun Any of several Old World plants of the genus Melilotus in the pea family, having compound leaves with three leaflets and narrow racemes of small white or yellow flowers. Also called sweet clover.

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  • Continental physicians still employ the same made of melilot, wax, resin, and olive oil. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • Will not some serious thoughts mingle with thy melilot, and tear off the callus of thy mind, as that may flay the leather from thy back, and as thy epispastics may strip the parchment from thy plotting head? —  Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9
  • Fomentations to the hypochondries are very good, of wine and water in which are sodden southernwood, melilot, epithyme, mugwort, senna, polypody, as also [4401]cerotes, [4402]plaisters, liniments, ointments for the spleen, liver, and hypochondries, of which look for examples in Laurentius, Jobertus lib. —  The Anatomy of Melancholy
  • In the process of making this cheese, melilot, a clover-like herb, is added, and this gives the cheese a green color and a peculiar flavor 32. —  Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables
  • Isis meanwhile having been informed that Osiris, deceived by her sister Nephthys, who was in love with him, had unwittingly enjoyed her instead of herself, as she concluded from the melilot-garland which he had left with her, made it her business likewise to search out the child, the fruit of this unlawful commerce (for her sister, dreading the anger of her husband Typhon, had exposed it as soon as it was born). —  Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations
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  1. Middle English melilote, from Old French, from Latin melilōtos, from Greek : meli, honey; see melit- in Indo-European roots + lōtos, lotus; see lotus.

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  1. from Old French melilot, mellilot, merilot, French melilot = Spanish Portuguese meliloto = Italian meliloto, melliloto, from Latin melilotos, from Greek μελίλωτον or μελίλωτος, a kind of clover, from μέλι, honey, + λωτός lotus: see lotus.
 

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