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Lady's slipper   /lˈeɪdiz slˈɪpər/   Listen
Lady's slipper

noun
1.
Any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden.  Synonyms: ladies' slipper, lady-slipper, slipper orchid.



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"Lady's slipper" Quotes from Famous Books



... bed in a darkish room. Womb troubles and other diseases that cause it such as protruding piles, etc., should be attended to. Tincture gelsemium is a good remedy. Put ten drops in a glass half full of water, and take two teaspoonfuls every half hour until better. A tea made from lady's slipper is also effective in some cases, used freely. Bromide of potash in ten-grain doses one-half hour apart, for three doses, if necessary, is quieting in many attacks. Mustard plaster ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... humble flowers of spring by-and-by when we find a brilliant cardinal flower, or a showy lady's slipper, just as we forget the timid, tender tones of the bluebird when the grand song of the grosbeak floods the evening air, or the exquisite melody of the hermit thrush spiritualizes the leafy woods; just as many a man forgets the ministrations of his humbler friends in early life ...
— Some Winter Days in Iowa • Frederick John Lazell

... in the valley, but here the wide plain was sunlit and the air was fresh and dry: in the valley even the river-aspens were almost quiet, but here there was still a sough of wind coming and going, through the dry grass thick set with lemon thyme and lady's slipper, or along the low garden wall where red valerian sprouted out of ...
— Nightfall • Anthony Pryde

... how they kept him from wandering off and hunting for medicinal roots and herbs while crossing that mountain. You may be sure that no patch of Lady's Slipper, Golden-Seal or Golden-Rod escaped his eye. The absence of a hoe is all that saved them from a deal of trouble with him. They went on through Shirleysburg, and got to Brother Andrew Spanogle's ...
— Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary - Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk • John Kline

... horns sticking out in every direction. And if here isn't a perfect shape of a lady's slipper! The lady should wear it inside out, so all ...
— Lord Dolphin • Harriet A. Cheever

... thither. I imagined that those were her buttercups that we gathered when we got over the wall, and held under each other's chin, to see, by the reflection, who was fond of butter; and surely the yellow toadflax (we called it "lady's slipper") that grew in the rock-crevices was hers, for we found it ...
— A New England Girlhood • Lucy Larcom

... with bars was specially impressed on the old man's memory, and every detail was carried out to the letter. When we were completed, my brother and I, you would have admired us. If it were possible to have anything handsome in the boot line, except, perhaps, a tiny, fur-lined lady's slipper, it was us. We were sewed with substantial rosen-end, the division between the inseam and soles was filled up with real leather skivings, and not the trashy "jump" which makes up the bulk of the ...
— Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches • David Drummond Bone

... with flowers, blue larkspur, scarlet lichens, the white and yellow and purple cyprepedium, or lady's slipper, called by the Indians 'moccasin flower,' the purple and scarlet iris, the bright pink blossom of the columbine, and all the other wind-blown and world-forgotten flowerets of ...
— An Algonquin Maiden - A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada • G. Mercer Adam



Words linked to "Lady's slipper" :   common lady's-slipper, showy lady's-slipper, ram's-head lady's slipper, lady-slipper, orchid, Cypripedium acaule, nerveroot, ladies' slipper, large yellow lady's slipper, clustered lady's slipper, Cypripedium, showy lady slipper, Cypripedium arietinum, Cypripedium montanum, Cypripedium californicum, moccasin flower, genus Cypripedium, Cypripedium album, yellow lady-slipper, Cypripedium parviflorum, Cypripedium reginae, ram's-head, orchidaceous plant, Cypripedium fasciculatum, Cypripedium calceolus



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