Nettles

NET'TLES, well-known wild plants, the leaves of which are armed with stings connected with a small bag of poison; and when the leaves are pressed by the hand, the stings penetrate the flesh and produce a swelling with a sharp, burning pain. Those who grope among the ruins of Palestine are often made to know that these weeds still abound there. The presence of nettles betokens a waste and neglected soil; hence the figure in Isa 34:13; Hos 9:6. The word rendered "nettles" in Job 30:7; Prov 24:31; Zeph 2:9 is supposed to refer to a different species of nettles, or to some shrub of similar properties, else it could not afford shelter. Tristram believes this plant to have been the formidable prickly acanthus.

NET'TLES, well-known wild plants, the leaves of which are armed with stings connected with a small bag of poison; and when the leaves are pressed by the hand, the stings penetrate the flesh and produce a swelling with a sharp, burning pain. Those who grope among the ruins of Palestine are often made to know that these weeds still abound there. The presence of nettles betokens a waste and neglected soil; hence the figure in Isa 34:13; Hos 9:6. The word rendered "nettles" in Job 30:7; Prov 24:31; Zeph 2:9 is supposed to refer to a different species of nettles, or to some shrub of similar properties, else it could not afford shelter. Tristram believes this plant to have been the formidable prickly acanthus.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting.

2. Small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams.

3. Reef points.