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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Contr. from

spike nail

a large, long nail; – so called in allusion to the shape of its capillary leaves.]

(Bot.)

An umbelliferous herb (

Meum Athamanticum

) having finely divided leaves, common in Europe; – called also

baldmoney

mew

, and

bearwort

[Written also

spignel

, SPIG'NEL,

Noun.

The herb maldmony or bear wort. the Athamanta Meum, Ethusa Meum.

spicknel ‎(uncountable)