edgrow

alternative edgrew

1. obsoleteuncountableAftergrass; eddish.

   1699, July 29 — This week has produced much rain here; if the same be at Brampton, will not you please to order the grounds to be watered, which may produce good "edgrow."

   1699 July 29, a letter published in 1894 in the reports of Great Britain's Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts

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   Very fine Weather—remarkably hot & dry; the Shrubs languishing for Rain, the Edgrew all burn'd up—a fire in the upper Country amongst the Heaths, & they can't extinguish it for want of Water.

   1800 August 15, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thraliana

   Similarly, Thomas Bowen of Tyddyn, Llanidloes, complained to Harris about the 'careless sayings' of a brother called Jones who at a society meeting in Montgomeryshire uttered words like the following: You shall be turn'd into the Clover, and afterwards into the Edgrow which was brought [= ? bought] with the blood of the Lamb: the Sun circulateth in the Blood of the Lamb.

   1988, The Great Awakening in Wales, page 99

   Synonyms: edgrowth