Brewer's: Knotgrass

Supposed, if taken in an infusion, to stop growth.

Get you gone, you dwarf; You minimus, of hindering knotgrass made.

Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream, iii. 2.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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