BONESET Definition & Meaning

boneset

[bohn-set]

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noun

any composite plant of the genus Eupatorium, especially E. perfoliatum, of North America, having white flowers in a flat-topped cluster.

boneset

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noun

Also called: agueweed.�� feverwort.�� thoroughwort.��any of various North American plants of the genus Eupatorium , esp E. perfoliatum , which has flat clusters of small white flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of boneset¹

1810–20, bone ( def. ) + set (v.), so named (by hyperbole) because supposed to have healing properties

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“Broken, by God’s whiskers. Broken,” she moaned, feeling her ankle, and she set about telling Beetle how to pack the boneset herbs and wrap the rags about the limb.

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Next winter I'll "need" some boneset tea— I wish she wouldn't think always of me!

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Our grandmothers made boneset tea from its leaves when we were in danger of colds or malaria.

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No clouds was in the sky, and the air was bammy with the warm sunshine and the wet smell of the earth and the locus blossoms and the flowrs and pennyroil and boneset.

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Therefore three times a day Carolyn May was dosed with boneset tea.

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boner bonesetter

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