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thyrse|θɜːs|
Also 7 thirse.
[a. Fr. thyrse (a 1502 in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. thyrsus, a. Gr. θύρσος stalk or stem of a plant; the Bacchic staff: see thyrsus.]
1. Gr. and Rom. Antiq. = thyrsus 1.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. iv. 712 There is a Thyrse or Javelot with tabours to be seene expresly printed aloft. 1710W. King Heathen Gods xxvii. (1722) 134 Their [the followers of Bacchus] Cloathing [was] only the Skins of Beasts, with Thyrses in their Hands. 1845Longfellow Drinking Song iv, Fair Bacchantes, Bearing cymbals, flutes, and thyrses.
2.
†a. A stem or shoot of a plant (= Gr. θύρσος, L. thyrsus). Obs.
b. Bot. = thyrsus 2.
1658Phillips, Thyrse, a stalk or stem of any herb. 1744J. Wilson Synopsis Brit. Plants, Bot. Dict. 14 Thyrsus, a Thyrse, differs from a spike, in having flowers or fruit set more thinly on it. 1846Dana Zooph. v. §91 (1848) 93 The thyrse of lilac blossoms. 1848Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 4) I. 324 The Thyrse is an inflorescence at first centripetal, afterwards centrifugal. 1861[see thyrsus 2].
3. An ancient vessel resembling a pine-cone.
1876R. M. Smith Persian Art 12 From their..resemblance..to pine cones they have been called thyrses, and are supposed to have been used for holding mercury.
4. Comb. as thyrse-bearing adj.; thyrse-flower, Lindley's name for the genus Thyrsacanthus.
1866Treas. Bot. 1150 Thyrseflower, Thyrsacanthus. 1869Swinburne Ess. & Stud. (1875) 207 No Bacchus..comes Here, nor mænads thyrse-bearing. |