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of rennet is steeped, i. e. soaked in warm water before being used ; and 
about Belfast milk when curdled by rennet is said to be steeped, curds 
and whey being known as steeped milk. 
Grass, Sticky. (1) Galium Mollugo, L. — Cumh. 
(2) Dactylis glomerata, L. — E. Bord. ‘As the leaf feels rough, 
and does not draw smoothly across the back of their little hands, 
children call the grass sticky -grass ; and they use it to bleed each 
other in the tongue.’ Bot. E. Bord, 
Grass, Suffolk. Poa annua, L. — From its abundance in that county : 
Stillingfieet (Obs. on Grasses) says, ‘ It is called in some parts the 
Sufolk grass. I have seen whole fields of it in High Suffolk without 
any mixture of other grasses .... I have seen a whole park in 
Suffolk covered with this grass.’ 
Grass, Swaggering. Briza media, L. — Lane. 
Grass, Sweet. (1) Asperula odorata, L. — E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. 
(2) A book-name for the genus Glyceria. — English Flora. 
Grass, Sweet Vernal. AnUioxanthum odoratum, L. — E. Bord. Bot. 
E. Bord. ; the general name for the species. 
Grass, Swine’s. (1) Polygonum aviculare, L. — Turn. Hames : in Turn. 
Lib., Swynegyrs. E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. Coles (A. in E.) says, 
‘ Swine delight to feed thereon.’ ‘ It is given unto swine with good 
successe, when they are sicke, and will not eate their meate, where- 
upon the countrie people do call it Swines grasse and Swines skir.* 
Ger. 452. Prior, p. 229. 
(2) Senecio Jacohcea, L. — ‘ Eaggewort (Jacobaoa) vulgo Swine-grasse 
growes too plentifully in good ground from Notts to the Bishopricke 
of Durham.’ Aubrey’s MS. (Eoyal Soc.), p. 12. 
Grass, Sword. Phalaris arundinaeea, L. — dies. ; Cumh. (Keswick). 
This may be the sword-grass of Tennyson’s May Queen : 
‘ The oat-grass and the sword-grass, and the bulrush in the pool ; ’ 
or, perhaps, Poa aquatica, L., which has very sharp-edged leaves, is 
there intended. 
Grass, Thickening. Pinguicula vulgaris, L. — Ayrsh. From its 
property of curdling milk. 
Grass, Thirlestane. ‘ Saxifrage.’ Jamieson. Probably Saxifraga 
granulata, L. — ‘The Sw. name corresponds; sten-hraeckaJ Jamieson. 
Grass, Three-leaved. A book-equivalent for Trifolium . — Ger. 
Grass, Timothy. The general book-name for Phleum pratense, L. — 
dies.; E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord.; E. Yks. ‘Was much recommended 
about thirty years ago, under the name of Timothy grass : and Mr. 
Wych is said to have brought it from Virginia in 1763. It received 
this quaint appellation from Mr. Timothy Hanson, who is said first 
to have brought the seeds of it from New York to Carolina.’ Mart. 
Mill. (1807). Prior, p. 235. 
Grass, Toad. Juneus hufonius, L. — ‘ The Flemmings generally call 
[it] Padde grasse, that is, T ode grasse.' Park. Theatr. 1190. ‘Quia 
provenit in locis ubi bufones stabulantur.' E. Cat. 
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