whiteflawとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

whiteflaw

1. (obsolete) Synonym of whitlow.
   • 1852, Richard Dowden, Walks after wild flowers; or The botany of the Bohereens, page 105:

     The useful stimulating qualities of these herbs as a cure for paronychia, may have been further recommended by the resemblance of the seed-pod to the " whiteflaw," or inflamed vesicle, which it was intended to allay.

   • 1877, John Brand & ‎Sir Henry Ellis, Observations on Popular Antiquities:

     A cock is offered (at least was wont to be) to St Christopher in Touraine for a certaine sore which useth to be in the end of men's fingers, the whiteflaw” (World of Wonders, 1607). The cock was to be a white one.

   • 1995, William Turner, ‎(George T. L. Chapman & ‎Marilyn N. Tweddle), William Turner: A New Herball: Parts II and III, ISBN 0521445493, page 461:

     The powder of the withered leaves is good to be cast upon the whiteflaw [and] agnails.