smallage


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smallage

(ˈsmɔːlɪdʒ)
n
(Plants) an archaic name for wild celery
[C13: from earlier smalache, from smal small + ache wild celery, from Old French, from Latin apium]
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But--would your worship believe it?--my broomstick hath strangely disappeared, stolen, as I suspect, by that unhanged witch, Goody Cory, and that, too, when I was all anointed with the juice of smallage, and cinquefoil, and wolf's bane"
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(32) Careawey, cirmunteyn, comyn, fenel, smallage, persile, sauge, myntis, ruwe, calamynte, origanum: and a half unce or moore or lasse, as bee likip.
MEASURES IN MEDIEVAL ENGLISH RECIPES --CULINARY VS. MEDICAL
A literal reading of the tale renders Goody Cloyse a self-proclaimed witch: "my broomstick hath strangely disappeared, stolen, as I suspect, by that unhanged witch, Goody Cory, and that, too, when I was all anointed with the juice of smallage and cinque-foil and wolf's bane--" she declares (10:79).
"The glory roundabout her": Hawthorne, feminism, and the "serious business" of the aged crone

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