Hemp-agrimony, in botany, a genus of the lyganea polygamia aquilis clas. The receptacle is naked; the pappus is plumose; the calyx is oblong and imbricated; and the stylus is long and semi-bifid. There are twenty-one species, only one of which is a native of Britain, viz. the cannabium, hemp-agrimony, or Dutch agrimony. The leaves are said to strengthen the stomach.

EUPHYSISM, in rhetoric, a figure which expresses things in themselves disagreeable and shocking, in terms implying the contrary quality.