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(botany, obsolete) Any of several healing plants of the genera Symphytum, Consolida, Ajuga, Bellis, etc., especially comfrey..
a Plant commonly call’d the Great Consound or Comfrey; it has Stems which grow two or three Foot high: The Leaves are great, large, hairy, and of a dark Green; […] The small Consound is the most proper for healing of Wounds.
“You bad!” and Huckleberry began to snuffle too. “Consound it, Tom Sawyer, you’re just old pie, ’longside o’ what I am. Oh, lordy, lordy, lordy, I wisht I only had half your chance.”
He held his eye there as much as a minute; then he raised up and sighed, and says, ‘Consound it, I don't seem to understand this thing, no way; however, I'll tackle her again.’
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Consound means (botany, obsolete) Any of several healing plants of the genera Symphytum, Consolida, Ajuga, Bellis, etc., especially comfrey..
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a Plant commonly call’d the Great Consound or Comfrey; it has Stems which grow two or three Foot high: The Leaves are great, large, hairy, and of a dark Green; […] The small Consound is the most proper for healing of Wounds.
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