Meanings
consound1
alternative obsolete consounde
- obsoletebiologyAny of several healing plants of the genera Symphytum, Consolida, Ajuga, Bellis, etc., especially comfrey.
a Plant commonly call’d the Great Consound or Comfrey; it has Stems which grow two or three Foot high: The Leaves are great, large, hairy, and of a dark Green; […] The small Consound is the most proper for healing of Wounds.
1725, Noel Chomel, Dictionaire Oeconomique: Or, The Family Dictionary
consound2
participle past consounded · past consounded · alternative obsolete consounde
- alternativearchaicno present participlerareAlternative form of confound: to damn
He held his eye there as much as a minute; then he raised up and sighed, and says, ‘Consound it, I don't seem to understand this thing, no way; however, I'll tackle her again.’
1880, Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad, page 391 more example
“You bad!” and Huckleberry began to snuffle too. “Consound it, Tom Sawyer, you’re just old pie, ’longside o’ what I am. Oh, lordy, lordy, lordy, I wisht I only had half your chance.”
1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Chapter X
Origin
consound · noun
- Latincōnsolida“common confrey”
- Old Frenchconsolde
- Old Englishconsolde
- Middle Englishconsoude
- Englishconsound
Inherited from the Middle English consoude, consowde, consol, consold, consaud, consaude, from the Old English consolde, borrowed from the Old French consolde, consoulde, consoude, inherited from the Latin cōnsolida (“common confrey”), so called because of its supposed healing power.
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