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OENANTHE

Volume 15 · 51 words · 1815 Edition

WATER DROPWORT, a genus of plants belonging to the pentandria clas; and in the natural method ranking under the 45th order Umbellae. See BOTANY Index.

OENOPTÆ, in Grecian antiquity, a kind of censors OENOPTE forrs at Athens, who regulated entertainments, and took care that none drank too much, nor too little.