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stave-acre

stave-acre noun: a medicinal herb, Staphis agria. Also the alternative form of starve-acre.

Noun

stave-acre (uncountable)

  1. A medicinal herb, Staphis agria.
    • Th' infectious scab, arising from extremes Of want or surfeit, is by water cur'd Of lime, or sodden stave-acre, or oil Dispersive of Norwegian tar, renown'd By virtuous Berkeley.=1810, Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson, The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper
    • Stonehenge recommends an ointment made of 2 oz. finely powdered stave-acre to lb. lard; it should be well rubbed in several times a day.1920, John Boyd Cramsie, Management and Diseases of Sheep in Australia, page 10

Also used as

stave-acre is also the alternative form of starve-acre.

Questions about stave-acre

What does stave-acre mean?
Stave-acre means a medicinal herb, Staphis agria.
What part of speech is stave-acre?
Stave-acre is a noun.

Words near stave-acre in the dictionary

  1. stave churches
  2. stave in
  3. stave off
  4. stave rhyme
  5. stave rhymes
  6. stave-acre
  7. stave-rhyme
  8. stave-rhymed
  9. stave-rhymes
  10. staved
  11. staved in

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