"witch-meal" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Club mosses",
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          "ref": "1915, Alice Mona CAIRD, The Stones of Sacrifice, page 275:",
          "text": "[…] substance which Graine knew to be 'witch-meal'; the seeds of dried lycopodium moss; the other set the dust on fire with a burning stick, the flame pursuing the flying particles till they were consumed, when the light flashed out[…]",
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        "A flash powder made from club moss; vegetable sulphur."
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        "(obsolete) A flash powder made from club moss; vegetable sulphur."
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        {
          "word": "witchmeal"
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          "word": "witches' meal"
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        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
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        "(obsolete) A flash powder made from club moss; vegetable sulphur."
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