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If she were seen holding a stem of beardtongue blossoms to admire their color or stooping to touch the spikes of jimson leaves, some would solemnly call her mazed in the head not to know beardtongue when she saw it, and others would wonder, grinning, was she so wit-scoured as perhaps to eat jimson?
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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If she were seen holding a stem of beardtongue blossoms to admire their color or stooping to touch the spikes of jimson leaves, some would solemnly call her mazed in the head not to know beardtongue when she saw it, and others would wonder, grinning, was she so wit-scoured as perhaps to eat jimson?
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
vendingmachine commented on the word wit-scoured
To remove one's natural ability to perceive and understand as if by scouring it.
June 29, 2015