nettle

General exclamations of surprise and doubt greeted him from our little circle, and this seemed to nettle him somewhat.

A curious dark blue dead-nettle (Dracocephalum speciosum) was found on dry ground at the same altitude.

"Not a word," said Neeld, grasping the nettle firmly this time.

The Nettle needs no introduction; we are all too well acquainted with it, yet it is not altogether a weed to be despised.

Indeed, the temper of our eminently serene will feel the strain of a doldrum-dulness that is goaded to activity by a nettle.