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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.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.