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Spergula, sper′gū-la, n. a genus of polypetalous annuals belonging to the Caryophyllace�, with small white or pink flowers—spurry or sandweed.—n.

Spurry, spur′i, n. a plant of the genus Spergula.

Mowbray advises that the grass run should be sown "with common trefoil or wild clover, with a mixture of burnet, spurry, or storgrass," which last two kinds "are particularly salubrious to poultry."

Everywhere they grew fodder, and spurry and horse-beans.

That spurry leaves bruised and laid to a cut finger will speedily heal it, “whereof the Country people in divers places say they have had good experience,” and that it is also good for causing “the Kine to give more store of milke than ordinary otherwise, so it causeth Pullaine likewise to lay more store of egges.”