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stork's bill
[Cf. G. storchschnabel (schnabel beak, bill), OS. storkesnevel (in sense 1).]
1. A book-name for a plant of the genus Erodium (N.O. Geraniaceæ), esp. E. cicutarium or E. moschatum. † Also in corrupt forms stocks-bill (Ray N.C. Words, 1691), stockbill (Withering Brit. Pl., ed. 3, 1796, III. 608).
1562Turner Herbal ii. 9 This kynde [of Geranium] is called in Englishe Pinke nedle or starkis [sic] byll. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cccxliii. 795 Of knobbed Cranes bill..it is also called..in English Storks bill. Ibid. cccxliv. 796 Musked Storkes bill. 1657S. Purchas Pol. Flying-Ins. i. xv. 94 Bees gather of these flowers following..In May:..Storks-bill, Mous-ear, [etc.]. 1825Sir J. E. Smith Eng. Flora III. 229 Erodium. Stork's-bill. Ibid., E. cicutarium. Hemlock Stork's-bill. Ibid. 230 E. moschatum. Musky Storks'-bill. Ibid. 231 E. maritimum. Sea Stork's-bill. 1898C. M. Yonge John Keble's Parishes xiv. 162 On the road-side have sprung up..the Stork's bill, Erodium moschatum.
attrib.1845–50A. H. Lincoln Lect. Bot. App. 101/2 Erodium ciconium (stork-bill geranium).
2. A plant of the genus Pelargonium (N.O. Geraniaceæ).
1825Greenhouse Comp. I. 65 Pelargonium Barringtonii, a splendid flower..considered the first of storksbills. 1829T. Castle Introd. Bot. 146 One extensive genus, called pelargonium or stork's-bill, upwards of one hundred and fifty species of which are natives of the Cape of Good Hope. 1848Schomburgk Hist. Barbados 602 Pelargonium humifusum. Trailing Stork's Bill. 1866Treas. Bot. 1102/1.
†3. Surg. = crow-bill 2. Obs. rare.
1671Phillips (ed. 3), Storks bill, a Chirurgions Instrument, the same as Crows bill which see.
†4. A derisive gesture: = L. ciconia. Obs.
1616B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. v. ii, You giue him the Reuerse stroke, with this Sanna, or Storkes-bill. |