vervein

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A form of vervain — Any herbaceous plant in the genus Verbena especially if used for medicinal purposes, primarily Verbena officinalis, common in Europe and formerly held to have medicinal properties.

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Meanings

noun
  1. obsoleteObsolete form of vervain.

    We may add a table, a seat, perhaps two stools. A poor dwelling and very bare; but then it is furnished with a living soul! The fire cheers her, the blessed box-twigs guard her bed, accompanied now and again by a pretty bunch of vervein.

    1862, Jules Michelet, La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages
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