Definition of Scoke
1. Noun. Tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous.
Definition of Scoke
1. n. Poke (Phytolacca decandra).
Medical Definition of Scoke
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Literary usage of Scoke
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1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1850)
"scoke-berry !' Or watch the thistle-down up in the sky, And the screaming hawk
swift sailing by, And little of care or pain have I ! ..."
2. The Knickerbocker; Or, New York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1850)
"scoke-berry P Or watch the thistle-down up in the sky, And the screaming hawk
swift sailing by, ... scoke-berry P Then I use for a mirror the dancing brook, ..."
3. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1900)
"... Red- weed, and scoke jalap. The name Phytolacca is derived from the Greek
phyton—a plant—and the modified Latin lacca,or French lac, meaning lake, ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"To scoke, va To mark with a line, E. To SCORE л WITCH. ... scoke, s. A deep,
narrow, ragged indentation on the side of a hill, South of S. Isl. alar, ..."
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