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Medical Definition of Goutwort

1. A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (aegopodium Podagraria). Synonym: bishop's weed, ashweed, and herb gerard. Origin: So called from having been formerly used in assuaging the pain of the gout. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Goutwort

Literary usage of Goutwort

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Physician; Enlarged with Three Hundred and Sixty-nine Medicines by Nicholas Culpeper (1814)
"goutwort. Tj. (hd 2.) IT is also called Herb-gerrard, Ash-weed, and Ground. Ash. Descript.] It is a low herb, seldom rising half a yard high, having sundry ..."

2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... as (for, de larmes, etc. goutte d'or (got dor). A white wine of Burgundy, of the second class. goutweed (gout'wed), ». Same as goutwort. ..."

3. Works by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"he asked himself, turning aside the goutwort leaf, that it might not be in the bug's way, and bending down another grass-blade for the bug to crawl on. ..."

4. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...by John Walker by John Walker (1806)
"GOURNET. gur'nêt. s. (314) A fish. GOUT? gout. s. (313) A periodical disease attended with great pain. GOUT, ROO. S. (315) desire. goutwort ..."

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