miltwaste
(ˈmɪltweɪst)
Also 6–7 -wast, 7 -waist.
[f. milt n.1 + waste.]
The finger-fern, one of the spleenworts, Asplenium Ceterach.
| 1578 Lyte Dodoens iii. lxv. 406 Of brode or large Splenewort or Miltwast. Ibid. iii. lxvii. 408 This herbe is called..in English..Scaleferne, Finger ferne..and Myltewaste. 1657 B. W. Expert Phisician 189 Agrimony, Burnet, Miltwaist, Mercury, each a handful. 1866 Treas. Bot. 258/2 A commonish native fern called Miltwaste or Scale Fern. |