allgood, n.
(ˈɔːlgʊd)
[all- E 6.]
A popular name of the herb (Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus), also called English Mercury, and Good King Henry.
| 1578 Lyte Dodoens 560 Algood groweth..about wayes and pathes and by hedges. 1616 Surflet & Markh. Country Farm i. 58 Take the leaues of Plantaine..Mallowes, Allgood. 1853 N. & Q. Ser. i. VIII. 36/1 Mercury Goose-foot..It is also called All-good. |