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Sussex|ˈsʌsɪks|
The name (OE. Súþseaxe ‘South Saxons’) of a maritime county in the south-east of England, used attrib. and absol. to designate things produced in or peculiar to the county, as breeds of cattle, agricultural implements, etc.
1704Dict. Rust. (1726) s.v. Plough, The Sussex single Wheel-Plough. 1818Compl. Grazier (ed. 3) Introd. 3 The Sussex and Hereford breeds [of cows]. 1834Youatt Cattle 41 The loins of the Sussex ox are wide. 1837Brit. Husb. (Libr. Usef. Knowl.) II. Index, Sussex waggon [described I. 155]. 1846Youatt Pig (1847) Index, Sussex pigs. 1855Poultry Chron. III. 534/2 My declining to adopt the name of Hamburg for the Bolton Greys and Bays, or that of Dorking for the Sussex fowls. 1875Encycl. Brit. I. 392/2 These sheep are now usually classed as Sussex Downs and Hampshire Downs. 1885Ibid. XIX. 645/2 The Surrey and Sussex fowls are four-toed. 1886J. Macdonald Pringle's Cattle (ed. 3) vi. 117 The Sussex breed of cattle possesses several of the characteristics of the Devon, but is larger in frame. Ibid., Some fine specimens of Sussex oxen are shown annually. 1919K. J. J. Mackenzie Cattle x. 144 Today the Sussex is essentially a beef-breed. Ibid., The Sussex inherits some of the faults of the draught-cattle from which he springs. Ibid., The Sussex bullock has to be thoroughly fattened before he is a really good butcher's animal. 1974Country Life 7 Nov. 1396/1 Today the beef animal is supreme—Welsh Black, Sussex, Galloway.
†b. Sussex crest, a name for the cuckold's ‘horn’. Obs.
1681T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 8 (1713) I. 49 A Cuckold is always to be the last Man that knows he has got a Sussex Crest.
c. Sussex marble, a marble occurring in thin beds in the Wealden clay of Sussex and Kent, formerly much used for pillars in churches; Sussex spaniel, a long-coated, stocky, golden-brown spaniel belonging to a breed developed in Sussex and neighbouring counties; also ellipt.
1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. 1850Ansted Elem. Geol., Min., etc. 379 Weald clay, with subordinate limestone (called Sussex marble) and sand. 1856‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Rural Sports 59 A good, useful team of the Sussex spaniels. 1859[see Norfolk spaniel s.v. Norfolk b]. 1904H. Compton Twentieth Century Dog II. 237 The Sussex spaniel is a smaller dog than the Clumber. 1981C. I. A. Ritchie Brit. Dog vi. 164 In spite of the popularity of land spaniels, such as the beautiful Sussex, the water spaniel was perhaps the favourite.
Hence † Sussexan, † Sussexian adjs. rare, belonging to Sussex.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. xvii. 423 Clear Lavant, that doth keep the Southamptonian side (Dividing it well-near from the Sussexian lands). 1614Disc. Strange & Monstrous Serpent B 2 b, I will conclude this generall discovrse of Serpents, and come to the particular description of our Sussexan Serpent. |