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Definition of Southernwoods
1. southernwood [n] - See also: southernwood
Lexicographical Neighbors of Southernwoods
Literary usage of Southernwoods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. "Alongside;": Being Notes Suggested by "A New England Boyhood" of Doctor by Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1900)
"... combs" and " southernwoods." A large lot was devoted to vegetables and herbs.
It was to such houses as these that we children went modestly for our May ..."
2. Chambers' Edinburgh Journal by Robert Chambers, William Chambers (1851)
"... southernwoods, and tansy, are among the tonic aM bitter medicinal plants of
the first sub-order; and tw the camomile. ..."
3. The Chinese Classics: Translated Into English, with Preliminary Essays and by James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Ching Shih (1876)
"2 Where streams among the valleys shine, Of southernwoods she plucks the white;
And brings it to the sacred shrine, To aid our prince in solemn rite. ..."
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