GROUNDSEL

groundsel|grunsel. Groundsel, or Grunsel, n. a timber that is next the ground, an herb, a kind of common weed

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Ground″sel (?), n. [[OE. grundswilie, AS. grundeswylige, grundeswelge, earlier gundiswilge; gund matter, pus + swelgan to swallow. So named as being good for a running from the eye. See Swallow, v.]] (Bot.) An annual composite plant (Senecio vulgaris), one of the most common and widely distributed weeds on the globe.