See Also: winded(dictionary)
winded(2)(dictionary)
winded(1)(dictionary)
long-winded(dictionary)
short-winded(dictionary)
long-winded(dictionary)
thick-winded(medicine)
short-winded(medicine)
long-winded(medicine)
broken-winded(medicine)

hellebore (iou) and winded(1) (iou)


hellebore (iou)



hellebore noun. . OE.
[(Old French ellebre, elebore from) medieval Latin eleborus, Latin (h)elleborus from Greek helleboros: refash. in 16 after prevailing Greek form.]
Orig., (the root of) either of two poisonous and purgative plants reputed in classical times to cure insanity, Helleborus orientalis and related species (more fully black hellebore) and Veratrum album (more fully white hellebore; cf. false hellebore below). Now, any of various early-flowering plants constituting the Eurasian genus Helleborus, of the buttercup family, with palmately divided leaves and petaloid sepals; esp. H. viridis (in full green hellebore) and H. foetidus (in full stinking hellebore), both green-flowered plants of calcareous woodland.
false hellebore any of various plants of the genus Veratrum of the lily family (see VERATRUM).
helleborism noun [Greek helleborismos] the treatment of insanity etc. by means of hellebore (Hist.); the (excessive) ingestion of hellebore: E17.

winded(1) (iou)



winded adjective1. LME.
[from WIND noun1 + -ED2.]
Having wind or breath of a specified kind or in a specified condition. Chiefly in comb., as broken-winded, long-winded, short-winded, etc.