neckweed (nekwed)

1. A small, widely diffused plant, Veronica peregrin a, once deemed efficacious in scrofula.-2. Hemp, as used for making ropes for hangmen's use. [Slang.] There is an her be whiche light fellowes merily will call Gallowgra e, Neckeweede , or the Tristrams knot, or Saynt Audres lace, or a bastarde brothers badge, with a difference on the left side, .: you know my meaning. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 240. Some call it neck - weed , for it hath a tricke To cure the necke that's troubled with the crick. John Taylor , Praise of Hemp-Seed. ( Nares .) Same as yoke , 1. [NL., νεκρός , A genus of beetles neck-yoke (nek'yōk), n. Necrobia (nek-ro'bi-a), n. a dead body, + βίος , life.] of the family Clerid a. necrobiosis (nek"rō-bi-ō'sis), n. [NL., Gr. νεκρός, & dead body, + βíos, life, + -osis.] In pathol., degenerative progre toward and ending in the death of a portion of ti ue. necrobiotic (nek"ro-bi-ot'ik), a. [