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jimsonweed U.S.
Also 7-9 Jamestown-weed, 9- jimpsonweed.
[f. Jamestown, in Virginia.]
The Thorn-apple, Datura Stramonium. Also ellipt. as jim(p)son.
1687J. Clayton in Phil. Trans. XLI. 160 Several of them [the Soldiers] went to gather a Sallad..and lighting in great Quantities on an Herb called Iames-town-weed, they gathered it; and by eating thereof in plenty, were rendered apish and foolish. 1700J. Lawson Carolina (1718) 78 James-Town-Weed..is excellent for curing Burns and asswaging Inflammations. 1812Cramer's Almanac 1813 (Pittsburgh) 26 James'-town weed..also known by the name of Jimson, and Thorn-Apple. 1842Amer. Pioneer I. 314 She said her principal dressings were made of..the leaves of stramonium, or ‘jimson’. 1880‘Mark Twain’ Tramp Abr. I. 220 The village jokers came creeping stealthily through the jimpson weeds and sunflowers. 1892Harper's Mag. LXXXIV. 936/2 The front yard was overrun with cockle⁓burs and ‘jimsonweed’. 1911C. Harris Eve's Second Husband xiv. 299 Clumps of sweet jimson and borders of balsam and pinks. 1930R. Bass in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 382 He cures..headaches with a poultice of jimson-weeds. 1934Amer. Ballads & Folk Songs 23 Mike was pilin' ties near the ditch by the road Out among the jimpson where the boys ain't mowed. 1943R. Peattie Great Smokies 118 Jimson root for ulcers. 1954C. J. Hylander Macmillan Wild Flower Book 360 Jimsonweed is a stout plant, growing to a height of five feet, with ovate lobed leaves and white or violet, trumpet-shaped flowers up to four inches in length. |