ˈnose-smart ? Obs.
[f. nose n. + smart, after L. nasturtium.]
The plant Cress.
| 1589 J. Rider Bibl. Schol. 1749 The hearb nose smart, Nasturtium. 1598 Florio, Nasturcio,..the hearbe wilde mint, or nose-smart. 1611 Cotgr., Nasitort, Nose-smart, garden Cresse. 1655 Stanley Hist. Philos. i. (1701) 105/2 The magnetick vertue of the Earth Would draw away the humour of my Brain, Just as we see in Nose-smart. 1755 in Johnson [hence in later Dicts.]. |