Meanings of dittany in English

Some country nurses recommend dittany tea, or spice-wood berries boiled in new milk.

Her favourite flowers were the dittany, poppy, and lily.

My prince, if you can take an infusion of leaves of dittany of Crete .

Where the dittany and spice-wood cannot be obtained, other aromatics, as cinnamon and cloves, are good substitutes.

What (whether dittany or pancy hight)

I had collected a pocketful of eyebright and dittany by the time they finished talking and Hugh Munro rose to go.

Juno's favourite flowers were, it is written, the dittany (a milk-like plant), the flaunting poppy, and the fragrant lily.

Among the other substances generally employed in its manufacture are angelica root, sweet flag, dittany leaves, star-anise fruit, fennel and hyssop.

Let the woman take such medicines as strongly provoke the terms, such as dittany, betony, pennyroyal, feverfew, centaury, juniper-berries, peony roots.

But when Venus saw how grievously her son was troubled, she brought from Ida, which is a mountain of Crete, the herb dittany.

The smoke of the juniper was equally repellent to serpents, and the juice of dittany "drives away venomous beasts, and doth astonish them."

Plant associations: Dittany of Crete, Ivy, Lily, Narcissus, Parsley, Pomegranate, Willow

Plant associations: Dittany of Crete, Ivy, Lily, Willow

Plant associations: Acacia, Benzoin, Cedar, Clove, Dittany of Crete, Ivy (common), Orris, Palm (date), Tamarisk, Vine (grape), Willow, and all old world grains

He averted the hero's death by applying the plant "Dittany," smooth of leaf, and purple of blossom, as plucked on the mountain Ida.