Consound
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Consound is a noun meaning (botany, obsolete) Any of several healing plants of the genera Symphytum, Consolida, Ajuga, Bellis, etc., especially comfrey.
Meaning
(botany, obsolete) Any of several healing plants of the genera Symphytum, Consolida, Ajuga, Bellis, etc., especially comfrey.
More Meanings
- (rare, archaic) Alternative form of confound: to damn
Example Sentences
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.’
“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.”
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.
Word Forms
- consounde
- consounded
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include comfrey, boneset, allheal, scammony, panacea, conium.
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