herb Gerard
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Named after St. Gerard of Toul, who used to be invoked against the gout.
Noun[edit]
- (archaic) The ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria).
- 1720, E. R. (Gent.), “Things good in general for Cramps or Convulsions of the Sinews”, in The Experienc'd Farrier; Or, Farring Compleated[1], page 257:
- […] Calamint given inwardly, Betony, Elecampane, Master-wort or the Herb Gerard given inwardly […]
- 1731, Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary[2]:
- GOUT WORT, the herb Gerard, Ashweed and Jump-about.