Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name of the shepherd's-purse, Capsella Bursa-pastoris, in allusion to its little pouches hung out as it were by the wayside, as the begging lepers of old times extended a pouch at the end of a pole and called attention to it by a clapper or bell.

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