Bot. [L.] The wormwood, Artemisia Absinthium of Linnæus, distinguished by its intensely bitter aromatic taste.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R. (1495), XVII. xii. 610. Abscintiuȝ: wormode is a full sharpe herbe.
1748. Phil. Trans., XLV. 299. For baking and roasting they make use of Abrotanum, Absynthium, and such-like.
1792. A. Young, Trav. in France, 366. Some of the absinthium and lavender, so low and poor, as hardly to be recognized.
