[ad. L. LIGULA; cf. F. ligule.]
1. = LIGULA 1.
1862. in Cooke, Man. Bot. Terms.
1870. Hooker, Stud. Flora, 184. Compositæ,… Corolla … ligulate, lobes elongate and connate into a strap-shaped or elliptic ligule.
1872. Oliver, Elem. Bot., II. 277. Observe, in any common Grass … the ligule, a scale-like stipular projection at the base of the blade of the leaf, where it passes into the sheath.
1877. Coues & Allen, N. Amer. Rodentia, 528. The end of this ligule or girdle of bone thus encircling the tympanic.
† 2. ‘A small (Romane) measure containing about a spoonefull; and in weight three drammes, and a scruple’ (Cotgr.). Obs.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 41. If it be taken to the weight or quantitie of two or three Ligules, it cures those who [etc.].
