(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:41:30

Ag"nus cas"tus (#). [Gr. a willowlike tree, used at a religious festival; confused with holy, chaste.] Bot.

A species of Vitex (V. agnus castus); the chaste tree.

Loudon.

And wreaths of agnus castus others bore. Dryden.

 

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