† ˈague-tree
Obsolete name of the Sassafras.
| 1597 Gerard Herbal 1341 For want of an English name we are contented to call it the Ague tree, of his vertue in healing the Ague. 1712 tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 65 Sassafras, call'd the Ague-Tree, is rather a Root than a Wood. 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp., Ague-Tree is a name given to sassafras, on account of its febrifuge virtue. |