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dew-berry|ˈdjuːbɛrɪ|
[f. dew n. + berry. Cf. mod.Ger. thau-beere dew-berry, Oberdeutsch taub-ber, tauben-ber, i.e. dove-berry. The origin of the first element is thus doubtful, but it is, in English use, associated with dew n.]
A species of blackberry or bramble-berry, the name being applied both to the fruit and the shrub: in Great Britain Rubus cæsius, a low-growing procumbent species, the black fruit of which has a bluish bloom; in N. America R. canadensis, resembling the British plant in its low growth and trailing habit, but differing in the fruit. In some earlier English writers, and mod. dialects, the name is applied to the gooseberry (dayberry).
Shakespeare's dew-berry, which is mentioned among delicate cultivated fruits, is supposed by some to have meant the gooseberry; Hanmer conjectured the raspberry. In some books dewberry is erroneously given as the cloud-berry, Rubus Chamæmorus.
1578Lyte Dodoens vi. iv. 661 The fruite is called a Dew⁓berie, or blackberie. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 304 When Mulberries cannot be gotten, Blackberries or Dewberries may supply their room. 1674tr. Scheffer's Lapland 141 Some Dew-berries, or the Norway Berry, whose species is the same that grows on Brambles. 1750Ellis Mod. Husbandman IV. i. 77 (E.D.S.) Dew⁓berry-brier. 1829Jesse Jrnl. Nat. 116 The root of an ancient beech, its base overgrown with the dewberry. 1859W. S. Coleman Woodlands (1862) 106 Dewberry, or Grey Bramble..The fruit..is generally less than that of a fullsized Blackberry; but the grains of which it is composed are usually much larger, and..covered with fine bloom. 1881Scribner's Mag. XXII. 642 Overrun with dewberry-briars.
b.1590Shakes. Mids. N. iii. i. 169 Feede him with Apricocks and Dewberries With purple Grapes, greene Figs, and Mulberries. 1652Culpepper Eng. Physic. (1656) 117 Goos⁓berry Bush, called in Sussex Dewberry Bush, and in some Countries Wine-berries. 1657W. Coles Adam in Eden clxxiv. 271 In some Countries of England it is called the Feaberry in others Dewberry..but most commonly the Gooseberry. |