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smallage

noun

Etymology

From Middle English smalache, equivalent to small + ache (“celery, parsley”).

  1. inherited from smalache

Definitions

  1. Celery in its wild uncultivated form.

    • Chop the smallage exceeding small and put it in a good half hour before you are to take your posset from the fire: You are to season your Gruel with a little Salt, at the due time; and you may put in a little Nutmeg, and Mace to it.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for smallage. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA