It excels Homers moly, cures this, falling sickness, and almost all other infirmities.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection iii:
Or, propt on beds of amaranth and moly, / How sweet (while warm airs lull us, blowing lowly,)1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 114:
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So spoke the Radiant One; then gave me the magic herb, pulling it from the ground and showing me in what form it grew; its root was black, its flower milk-white. Its name among the gods is moly.1980, Homer, translated by Walter Shrewing, The Odyssey, Oxford, published 1998, page 120:
I would need all the secret herbs of Dicte […] . I would need as well the rest of my moly stores.2018, Madeline Miller, Circe, Bloomsbury 2019, p. 113
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Any plant associated with the mythological moly, especially the European allium, Allium moly.
The fuselage and tail unit were constructed of welded chrome-moly steel tubing, fabric covered, with two seats in one elongated open 'bathtub' cockpit.1990, John Wegg, General Dynamics Aircraft and Their Predecessors, page 55: