Mugwort vs False - What's the difference?
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(botany) Any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia native to Europe and Asia.
, also (common wormwood), used as a herb in cooking.
* 1653 , (Nicholas Culpeper), The English Physician Enlarged , Folio Society 2007, p. 197:
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun mugwort
is (botany) any of several aromatic plants of the genus artemisia native to europe and asia.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.mugwort
English
(wikipedia mugwort) (Artemisia)Noun
(en noun)- Mugwort is with good success put among other herbs that are boiled, for women to sit over the hot decoction to draw down their courses, to help the delivery of the birth and expel the afterbirth, as also for the obstructions and inflammations of the mother.
Synonyms
* absinthe, artemisia, wormwoodDerived terms
* - (Chinese mugwort), used in traditional Chinese medicine * - (Douglas mugwort), native to western North America * - (alpine mugwort) * - (Japanese mugwort) * - (Oriental mugwort) * - (Norwegian mugwort) * - (Japanese mugwort) ("yomogi"), (Korean mugwort) ("ssuk"), used as a culinary herb and in traditional Chinese medicine. * - (hoary mugwort) * - (Chinese mugwort)false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}