Masterwork vs Masterwort - What's the difference?
masterwork | masterwort |
A piece done to prove possession of skill sufficient to be ranked a master.
A piece of quality, indicative of having been made by a master; a masterpiece.
(obsolete) An act of primary importance.
(obsolete) A main drain or irrigation channel.
Peucedanum ostruthium, an umbelliferous plant grown in gardens, formerly much used for medicinal purposes.
*1653 , (Nicholas Culpeper), The English Physician Enlarged , Folio Society 2007, p. 184:
*:The root of Masterwort is hotter than Pepper, and very available in all cold griefs and diseases both of stomach and body, dissolving very powerfully upward and downward.
