This herb is of the Borage tribe, and is conspicuous by its height of from one to two feet, its large rough leaves, which provoke itching when handled, and its drooping white or purple flowers growing on short stalks.
And it is to such saline qualities the wholesome, invigorating effects and the specially refreshing properties of the Borage are supposed to be mainly due.
All herbs of the Borage order are indifferently "of force and virtue to drive away sorrow and pensiveness of the mind: also to comfort and strengthen the heart.
The Romans named the Borage Euphrosynon, because when put into a cup of wine it made the drinkers of the same merry and glad.
Chemically, the plant Borage contains potassium and calcium combined with mineral acids.
Parkinson says, "The seed of Borage helpeth nurses to have more store of milk, for which purpose its leaves are most conducing.
The yellow or yellowish flowers of the Golden Borage are clustered at the ends of stems 4-10 in.
Defn: A plant (Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets.
As for the blues, from the azure of the dawn to the indigo of the sea and the deep lakes, from the periwinkle to the borage and the corn-flower, they are banished on pain of death.
After the sugar is dissolved throw in a sprig of borageor a slice or two of cucumber and some pounded ice.
Add a wineglass of curaçoa, a sprig of green borage or a couple of slices of cucumber with the juice and fine shavings of the outside peel of a lemon, and a pound of bruised ice.
Add a sprig of borage or balm, a bit of toasted bread, and nutmeg grated on the top.
Soak a handful of borage seeds in warm water for fifteen minutes; drain, and work them into the flannel around the bottle, as evenly as possible.
Take fresh Borage flowers cleansed well from their heads four ounces, fine sugar twelve ounces, beat them well together in a stone Mortar, and keep them in a vessel well placed.
A good hour after that, put in a large quantity of Sorrel, Lettice, Purslane, Borage and Bugloss, and boil an hour more at least three hours in all.
In the Summer you may put in Lettice, Sorrel, Purslane, Borageand Bugloss, or what other pot-herbs you like.
Our borage is certainly a foreign plant, and Cæsalpinus said that it was brought from other countries to Italy.
Flowers chiefly blue or white, in one-sided cymes or false racemes, which are mostly bractless and coiled from the apex when young, as in the Borage Family.
Nothing better for him that is melancholy than to steep this and boragein his ordinary drink.
The wines ordinarily used to this disease are wormwood wine, tamarisk, and buglossatum, wine made of borage and bugloss, the composition of which is specified in Arnoldus Villanovanus, lib.
The stamens of the Common Borage have no thread-like stalks; their purple heads are placed close together in a circle round the slender white pillar of the seed-vessel.
The leaves of theBorage are a dusty grey-green colour.
Here Karshish breaks off and asks pardon for writing of such trivial matters, when there are so important ones to treat of, and states that he noticed on the margin of a pool blue-flowering borage abounding, the Aleppo sort, very nitrous.
Aleppo: a city of Syria; the blue-flowering borage was supposed to possess valuable medicinal virtues and exhilarating qualities.
The plains in the neighbourhood of our intended camp were richly grassed; and a species of Hypoxis and the native Borage (Trichodesma zeylanica, R.
The best known of these beverages is cool tankard, composed of wine, water, lemon juice, sugar and borage flowers.
The blue or pink flowers of borage have long been famous for the same purpose, though they are perhaps oftener added to a mixture of honey and water, to grape juice, raspberry vinegar or strawberry acid.
Borage is of somewhat spreading habit, branchy, about 20 inches tall.
The flaming rose glooms swarthy red; The borage gleams more blue; And low white flowers, with starry head, Glimmer the rich dusk through.
Up to this time the ground is kept open and clean by cultivation; afterwards the boragewill usually have possession.
Borage and hellebore fill two scenes - Sovereign plants to purge the veins Of melancholy, and cheer the heart Of those black fumes which make it smart.
He turned and said to the dental patient, "You must rinse with this tea of borage leaf, or the grass that the cattle eat if you run out too soon.
We have only a little borage tea, such as this one treated you with before.
L'acoci was treating Si'Wren with borage and red clover blossom tea, together with dandelion, which was quite agreeable and most healing to her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "borage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: condiment; herb; pepper; salt; spice
