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Webster 1913 Edition

(dĭl)

Noun.

[AS

dile

; akin to D.

dille

, OHG.

tilli

, G.

dill

dille

, Sw.

dill

, Dan.

dild

(Bot.)

An herb (

Peucedanum graveolens

), the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, and were formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; – called also

dillseed

Dr. Prior.

Verb.

[OE.

dillen

, fr.

dul

dull,

Adj.

]

To still; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain.

[Obs.]

Noun.

[G.] An annual plant of the genus Anethum, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent and aromatic.