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sweet-william|swiːt ˈwɪljəm|
(Also as two words, with or without capitals, or rarely as one word without hyphen.)
1. A species of pink, Dianthus barbatus, cultivated in numerous varieties, bearing closely-clustered flowers of various shades of white and red, usually variegated or parti-coloured.
1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 96 Herbes, branches and flowers, for windowes and pots... Sweete Williams. 1578Lyte Dodoens ii. vii. 154 The third [sort of gillofer] is that which we cal in Englishe Sweete Williams and colmeniers. 1616W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. iii. 62 They did..intwine The white, the blewe, the flesh-like Columbine With Pinckes, Sweet-williams. 1786J. Abercrombie Arrangem. in Gard. Assist. 68/1 Double mule, or sweet-william pink. 1796C. Marshall Garden. xix. (1813) 355 Sweet William (or bearded pink) is distinguished into broad and narrow leaved sorts. 1866M. Arnold Thyrsis vii, Sweet-William with his homely cottage-smell. 1879Dowden Southey 4 A house rich in old English comfort, with its diamond-tiled garden⁓way,..its sweet-williams and stocks and syringas.
b. Applied to other species of pink, also to plants of other genera:
Childing Pink, Dianthus prolifer (childing sweet-william); the Deptford Pink, D. Armeria (also called sweet-william catchfly); † the Wallflower, Cheiranthus Cheiri (obs.); Lobel's Catchfly, Silene Armeria (Treas. Bot.); the Scarlet Lychnis, L. chalcedonica (U.S.); Phlox maculata (wild sweet-william), of N. America; and Ipomœa Quamoclit, of Barbados.
1562W. Bullein Bulwarke, Bk. Simples (1579) 46 The whyte and yellow Gilloflower, called sweete William, or hearts ease. 1633Johnson Gerarde's Herbal ii. clxxxiv. 599 Armeria prolifera, Lob. Childing sweet Williams. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 329 Sweet William of Barbadoes, Ipomœa. 1856A. Gray Man. Bot. (1860) 330 Phlox maculata..(Wild Sweet-William).
2.
†a. Applied to the tope or dog-fish.
b. A local name for the goldfinch.
1730Dale Hist. Harwich 420 Cartilagineous Fishes. 1. The Dog-kind, or such are as long... The Sweet-William. 1848Zoologist VI. 2258 The goldfinch is called a ‘red-cap’, a ‘sweet-William’, a ‘proud tailor’. |