Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several plants of the genus Eupatorium in the composite family, especially the eastern North American species E. perfoliatum, having opposite leaves united around the stem and clusters of small white flower heads.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To set bones; practise the setting of broken bones.
- noun The thoroughwort, Eupatorium perfoliatum. See
Eupatorium . - noun In England, an old name for the comfrey, Symphytum officinale.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort (
Eupatorium perfoliatum ). Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several plants of the
genus Eupatorium . - noun The
herb common boneset .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun European herb having small white, pink or purple flowers; naturalized as a weed in North America
- noun perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Examples
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I think Mrs. Klopton was fascinated out of her theories by the "boneset" in connection with the fractured arm.
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"It's after, 'boneset's good for colds,'" said Polly, puckering up her face again at the thought.
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There was the witch hazel I had asked for, boneset and comfrey for tea, and something I tentatively identified as cherry bark.
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The boneset, comfrey, and cherry bark were steeping in a small pan of hot water set by the fire.
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Come cold and flu season, boneset can be invaluable in relieving coughs and upper-respiratory congestion, helping to loosen up phlegm, and clearing nasal passages.
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Come cold and flu season, boneset can be invaluable in relieving coughs and upper-respiratory congestion, helping to loosen up phlegm, and clearing nasal passages.
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I remembered the names of boneset and snakeroot, both in bloom right now, and knew them one from the other, and maybe because of that I found this other road, and wandered quite away from everything.
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Come cold and flu season, boneset can be invaluable in relieving coughs and upper-respiratory congestion, helping to loosen up phlegm, and clearing nasal passages.
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Come cold and flu season, boneset can be invaluable in relieving coughs and upper-respiratory congestion, helping to loosen up phlegm, and clearing nasal passages.
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Malva and I had started some fresh penicillin the day before, and had made up fresh tinctures of boneset and troutlilly, and some fresh gentian salve, as well.
knitandpurl commented on the word boneset
"The dragonflies hung above the still surface like turquoise needles and woodpeckers knocked at the dead willow branches up above. The opposite bank was a rich jungle of jewelweed and boneset."
Then There Were Five by Elizabeth Enright, pp 112-113 of the 2002 hardcover edition
July 12, 2011