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hyssop
/ˈhɪsəp/
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What does hyssop mean?
noun
- Any of several aromatic bushy herbs, of the genus Hyssopus, native to Southern Europe and once used medicinally.
- Any of several similar plants
- Agastache foeniculum, blue giant hyssop.
More meanings (2)
noun
- A plant used for the sprinkling of blood or water in purification rituals and at Passover, Origanum syriacum.
- (obsolete) The sagebrush (Artemisia spp.).
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈhɪsəp/
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A border on one side or end will hold all herbs, such as parsley, thyme, sage, hyssop, mints.
He had hanging in the attic great bunches of dried herbs: wormwood, rue, horehound, elder-flowers, parsley-purt, marshmallow, hyssop, dandelion, and centuary.
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We can study the earth, its strata, its soil, its animals, and its productions, "from the cedar that is in Lebanon, to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall."
So that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.