ˈblind-nettle Herb.
[f. blind a. 12; from its wanting the characteristic stinging quality of nettles proper.]
The Dead-nettle; also the Hemp-nettle and Hedge Nettle or Wood Woundwort.
| c 1000 ælfric Gram. 311 Archangelica, blindnetle. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. cxciii. (1495) 730 The deed nettyll or the blynde nettyl. 1578 Lyte Dodoens i. lxxxviii. 131 At this present time it is called..in English Blinde Nettel. 1736 Bailey Househ. Dict. 113 Blind Nettle..is of a heating, drying, digestive and incisive quality. 1878 Britten & Holland Plant-n. |