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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SETTERWORT

SETTERWORT Set "ter *wort `, n. (Bot. )

 

Defn: The bear's-foot (Helleborus foetidus ); -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots. Dr. Prior.