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See also:HYSSOP (Hyssopus officinalis) , a See also:garden See also:herb belonging to the natural See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order See also:Labiatae, formerly cultivated for use in domestic See also:medicine. It is a small perennial plant about 2 ft. high, with slender, quadrangular, woody stems; narrowly elliptical, pointed, entire, dotted leaves, about t in. See also:long and a in. wide, growing in pairs on the See also:stem; and long terminal, erect, See also:half-whorled, leafy spikes of small See also:violet-See also:blue See also:flowers, which are in blossom from See also:June to See also:September. Varieties of the plant occur in gardens with red and See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white flowers, also one having variegated leaves. The leaves have a warm, aromatic, See also:bitter See also:taste, and are believed to owe their properties to a volatile oil which is See also:present in the proportion of 4 to z %. Hyssop is a native of the See also:south of See also:Europe, its range extending eastward to central See also:Asia. A strong See also:tea made of the leaves, and sweetened with See also:honey, was formerly used in pulmonary and catarrhal affections, and externally as an application to bruises and indolent swellings.
The hedge hyssop (Gratiola officinalis) belongs to the natural order See also:Scrophulariaceae, and is a native of marshy lands in the south of Europe, whence it was introduced into See also:Britain more than 300 years ago. Like Hyssopus officinalis, it has smooth opposite entire leaves, but the stems are cylindrical, the leaves twice the See also:size, and the flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves and having a yellowish-red veined See also:tube and bluish-white See also:limb, while the capsules are See also:oval and many-seeded. The herb has a bitter, nauseous taste, but is almost odourless. In small quantities it acts as a purgative, diuretic and emetic when taken internally. It was formerly See also:official in the See also:Edinburgh See also:Pharmacopoeia, being esteemed as a remedy for See also:dropsy. It is said to have formed the basis of a celebrated See also:nostrum for See also:gout, called Eau medicina;e, and in former times was called Gratia Dei. When growing in abundance, as it does in some See also:damp pastures in See also:Switzerland, it becomes dangerous to See also:cattle. G. peruviana is known to possess similar properties.
The hyssop ('ezob) of Scripture (Ex. xii. 22; Lev. xiv. 4, 6; Numb. xix. 6, i8; t See also:Kings v. 13 (iv. 33); Ps. li. 9 (7); See also:John xx, 29), a See also:wall-growing plant adapted for sprinkling purposes, has long been the subject of learned disputation, the only point on which all have agreed being that it is not to be identified with the Hyssopus officinalis, which is not a native of See also:Palestine. No fewer than eighteen See also:plants have been supposed by various authors to See also:answer the conditions, and See also:Celsius has devoted more than See also:forty pages to the discussion of their several claims. By Tristram (See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford See also:Bible for Teachers, 188o) and others the See also:caper plant (Capparis spinosa) is supposed to be meant; but, apart from other difficulties, this See also:identification is open to the objection that the caper seems to be, at least in one passage (Eccl. xii. 5), otherwise designated ('abiyyonah). Thenius (on i Kings v. 13) suggests Orthotrichum saxatile.
The most probable See also:opinion would seem to be that found in See also:Maimonides and many later writers, according to which the See also:Hebrew 'ezob is to he identified with the Arabic sa'alar, now understood to be Satureja Thymus, a plant of very frequent occurrence in See also:Syria and Palestine. with which Thymus Serpyllum, or See also:wild See also:thyme, and Satureja Thymbra are closely allied. Its See also:smell, taste and medicinal properties are similar to those of H. officinalis. 'In See also:Morocco the sa'atas of the See also:Arabs is Origanum compactum; and it appears probable that several plants of the genera Thymus, Origanumg and others nearly allied in See also:form and See also:habit, and found in similar localities, were used under the name of hyssop.
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