Melilot

Word MELILOT
Character 7
Hyphenation mel i lot
Pronunciations /ˈmɛlɪlɒt/

Definitions and meanings of "Melilot"

What do we mean by melilot?

A plant of the genus Melilotus. noun

Any species of Melilotus, a genus of leguminous herbs having a vanillalike odor; sweet clover; hart's clover. The blue melilot (Melilotus cærulea) is used in Switzerland to give color and flavor to sapsago cheese. noun

A fragrant plant of the genus Melilotus, often having small yellow or white flowers. noun

Erect annual or biennial plant grown extensively especially for hay and soil improvement noun

A fragrant plant of the genus Melilotus, often having small yellow or white flowers.

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The word "melilot" in example sentences

"There are eight kinds, child of the city," said Rose, "beside melilot, which is a kind of clover-cousin. ❋ Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1896)

Tall grassland is scattered with hawkweed, ragwort, wild carrot and melilot flowers, along with clumps of bird's-foot trefoil, lucerne and goat's rue, and there are regular uprisings of brambles and wild rose, and sprawls of sallow and birch scrub. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Season of the Inundation: Sweet, black silt mingled with holy myrrh, melilot, hyssop, spikenard, balsam, cedar, and a hint of melting snow from the Abyssinian hills. ❋ Anverie (2009)

For old ulcers which occur on the fore part of the legs; they become bloody and black: - Having pounded the flower of the melilot and mixed it with honey, use as a plaster. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Will not some serious thoughts mingle with thy melilot, and tear off the callus of thy mind, as that may flay the leather from thy back, and as thy epispastics may strip the parchment from thy plotting head? ❋ Unknown (2006)

I rubbed it vehemently, but did not scratch it: then it grew into three or four great sores like blisters, and run; at last I advised the doctor to use it like a blister, so I did with melilot [2] plasters, which still run: and am now in pain enough, but am daily mending. ❋ Unknown (2003)

One favorite treatment for sciatica used by Cherokee herbalist David Winston is a combined extract of sweet melilot (Melilotus alba), dodder (Cuscuta americana), and sweet or black birth (Betula lenta). ❋ JOHN LUST (2003)

Then the thigh, and the whole of the leg, must be fomented with a decoction made of sage, rosemary, thyme, lavender, flowers of chamomile and melilot, red roses boiled in white wine, with a drying powder made of oak -- ashes and a little vinegar and half a handful of salt. ... ❋ Various (N/A)

Continental physicians still employ the same made of melilot, wax, resin, and olive oil. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

In the process of making this cheese, melilot, a clover-like herb, is added, and this gives the cheese a green color and a peculiar flavor. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The old herbalists were wise in their simplicity in the making of marigold potions, medicaments of herbs, soothing unguents from melilot and musk-mallow, elecampane and agrimony, pillows for the sick from rosemary and basil, beech-leaf mattresses for the weary – for these things cleanse the whole being. ❋ Unknown (1917)

Then the thigh, and the whole of the leg, must be fomented with a decoction made of sage, rosemary, thyme, lavender, flowers of chamomile and melilot, red roses boiled in white wine, with a drying powder made of oak-ashes and a little vinegar and half a handful of salt…. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Bushes of tall, white melilot, clustered with myriads of tiny flowers, exhale a sweet fragrance into the morning air. ❋ Frederick John Lazell (1905)

What fine old names they have, great with the blended dignities of literary and rural lore; archangel, tormentil, rosa solis or sun-dew, horehound, Saracen's wound-wort, melilot or king's clover, pellitory of Spain! ❋ Unknown (1905)

Isis meanwhile having been informed that Osiris, deceived by her sister Nephthys, who was in love with him, had unwittingly enjoyed her instead of herself, as she concluded from the melilot-garland which he had left with her, made it her business likewise to search out the child, the fruit of this unlawful commerce (for her sister, dreading the anger of her husband Typhon, had exposed it as soon as it was born). ❋ Unknown (1895)

Nepthys who was in love with him, had unwittingly united with her instead of herself, as she concluded from the melilot-garland, ❋ Unknown (1895)

River and leat and back-water here ran clear among willow-clad islands, all fringed deep with meadow-sweet and comfrey and butterbur and melilot. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)

Agrimony, mint, and marjoram, with a tall inula, and the pretty, sweet-scented white melilot, were in great abundance along the bank. ❋ Edward Harrison Barker (1885)

Great purple snapdragons hung from clefts in the rocks, inula flashed gorgeously yellow, white melilot raised its graceful drooping blossoms, and hemp-agrimony made the bees sing a drowsy song of the brimming cup of summer. ❋ Edward Harrison Barker (1885)

We have only to stretch out our hands as we lie to gather half a dozen spikes of lavender, wild thyme, rosemary, Deptford pink, melilot, blue pimpernel, and white scabious. ❋ Matilda Betham-Edwards (1877)

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