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Charlemagne's capitulary waisda, whence O.Fr. guesde, Fr. 

 guede, andgaide, M.Lat. guasdium, guesdium, words derived 

 originally from some ancient barbaric language, 



Isatis tinctoria, L. 



WOAD, WILD-, Keseda Luteola, L. 



WOLPSBANE, wolf-poison, a plant so called because, says 

 Gerarde (p. 822), " the hunters which seeke after woolfes, 

 put the juice thereof into rawe flesh, which the woolfes 

 devoure, and are killed," Aconitum Lycoctonum, L. 



WOLF'S-CLAW, from the claw-like ends of the trailing 

 stems, Lycopodium clavatum, L. 



WOLF'S MILK, from the acrid qualities of its milky 

 juice. Talbot, in Eng. Etym., suggests that the name has 

 arisen from a confusion of Gr. Xeu/co9, white, with Xu/co?, 

 wolf; but the plant does not seem to have been called 

 either white- or wolf s-milk by any Greek writer. 



Euphorbia, L. 



WOODBINE, not a bine that grows in woods, but a creeper 

 that binds or entwines trees, in old authors called WOOD- 

 VYNDE and WOODBINDE, A.S. wudu-winde and ivudu-Und, 

 from wudu, a tree, and windan, twine, or bindan, bind, 

 G. in TabernEem. ii. 616, Wald-winde, It. Vincibosco, 



Lonicera Periclymenum, L. 



It would seem in some passages to mean the bittersweet, 

 as in Mids. N. Dr. iv. 1. 



" So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle 

 Gently enfrwist." 



WOOD BLADES, -GRASS, Or -KTJ8H, 



Luzula sylvatica, DC. 



WOOD CROWFOOT, of Parkinson, the wood anemony, from 

 its leaves resembling those of a crowfoot, 



Anemone nemorosa, L. 



WOOD LAUREL, L. laureola, dim. of laurus, a name under 

 which all evergreen shrubs were once included, 



, Daphne Laureola, L. , 



