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Definition of Soap-weed
1. Noun. Tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soap-weed
Literary usage of Soap-weed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana (1848)
"To the sentinel, they will appear as forms of men ; and many an unconscious soap
weed has run the chance of a sentry's shot from not answering the challenge ..."
2. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1848)
"To the sentinel, they will appear as forms of Wn; tod many an unconscious soap
weed has run the chance of a sentry's shot from not answering the challenge, ..."
3. Opportunities for Industry and the Safe Investment of Capital; Or, A by Edwin Troxell Freedley (1859)
"To the sentinel they will appear as the forms of men ; and many an unconscious
Soap Weed has run the chance of a sentry's shot for not answering the ..."
4. Saddle and Mocassin by Francis Francis (1887)
"Is that an Indian over there, or is it only a soap-weed ? ... "There's a hell's
mint of soap-weed killed these Indian times, though—grease-bush too-—-and ..."
5. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by John Timbs (1877)
"The Soap Weed. -A substitute for soap has been found in New Mexico —the soap
weed, the roots of which are used for washing by the Mexicans. ..."
6. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"Is that an Indian over there, or is it only a soap-weed? There's a helft mini of
soap-weed killed these Indian times, grease bush too—and cactus! cactus ..."
7. Navaho Legends by Washington Matthews (1897)
"Then his maidens from the yellow house came in bringing corn meal; the maidens
from the black house entered bringing soap- weed, and the maidens of the ..."
8. The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in by Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1870)
"... saw them attain the dimensions of a good-sized tree ; standing thirty feet
high, and twenty feet in circuit round the branches. The soap-weed (Yucca ..."
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