Sc. [f. bla, BLAE + wort herb, plant.] The name in Scotland of two plants: the Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia), and the Corn Bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus). Cf. BLEWART.
1728. Ramsay, Poet. Wks. (1848), III. 137. Of colour like a blawart blue.
a. 1774. Fergusson, Poems (1845), 35. Een as blue’s a blawort Wi’ straiks.
1824. Scott, St. Ronan’s, II. 165 (Jam.). His poor wizened houghs as blue as a blawart.
