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Oswego|ɒzˈwiːgəʊ|
[The name of a river and a town in the northern part of the state of New York.]
1. a. = Oswego bass.
1857[see lunge n.3].
b. A proprietary name for a type of cornflour.
1881J. T. Gill Compl. Bread, Cake & Cracker Baker i. v. 75 Maizena..is maize deprived of all its albuminoid or flesh-forming constituents..and is, therefore, simply pure starch... Corn flour and Oswego are only other names for the same substance. 1907Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 29 Jan. 1758/2 National Starch Co., Jersey City, N.J. and Oswego, N.Y. Filed Dec. 17, 1906. Used ten years. Oswego. Particular description of goods.—Corn-starch. 1911Encycl. Brit. XVII. 449/1 When deprived of the gluten it [sc. maize] constitutes oswego, maizena or corn flour.
c. = Oswego biscuit.
c1900in A. Davis Package & Print (1967) (frontispiece) Peek, Frean & Co. Biscuits. Oswego. 1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 8 Biscuits..Oswego..
2. attrib. Oswego bass = large-mouth (bass) s.v. large a. 15 a; Oswego biscuit, cake, a biscuit or cake made with Oswego flour (= sense 1 b); Oswego tea, a herbaceous perennial plant, Monarda didyma, belonging to the family Labiatæ and native to eastern North America; its leaves were formerly used to make a medicinal tea.
1758C. Rea Jrnl. 20 July in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1881) XVIII. 112 The Lake affords plenty of a Fish call'd Oswego Bass. 1840J. F. Cooper Pathfinder I. ix. 130 Even the Major himself..will sometimes swear that an oat-meal cake is better fare than the Oswego bass. 1884[see large-mouth (bass)]. 1965A. J. McClane Standard Fishing Encycl. 473/1 The largemouth bass is regionally known as green bass, green trout, Oswego bass, and black bass.
1936Chesterton Autobiogr. 324 Do let me offer you an oswego biscuit. 1963C. Mackenzie My Life & Times II. 94 However well Huntley and Palmer may have made Oswego and Osborne biscuits..they could not reproduce the authentic flavour of real Petit Beurres.
1907M. I. Rivers Tips for Tea vii. 50 Oswego cakes... Cream the butter and sugar together until they are white; add the eggs one at a time, and stir in lightly the oswego. 1949A. R. Daniel Baker's Dict. Oswego flour. A particular type of flour obtained from maize, but not just pure cornflour.
1752P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 6) s.v. Monarda, The inhabitants drink an infusion of this Herb as Tea, and call it Ozweega Tea. 1759― (ed. 7) s.v. Monarda, It [sc. Monarda with Flowers collected in Heads] is commonly called Oswego Tea, by which title it was brought to England. 1760[see tea n. 6]. 1789[see monarda]. 1850S. F. Cooper Rural Hours 117 Humming-birds..are partial to the bee larkspur also, with the wild bergamot or Oswego tea. 1947Nat. Geogr. Mag. July 62/1 Among the many useful plants they found..were two of this same Mint Family, Oswego Tea (Monarda didyma), and Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa). 1954C. Hylander Macmillan Wild Flower Bk. 344 Oswego Tea, also known as Bee-balm, has a natural range from New York to Michigan..; it is frequently cultivated as an ornamental. 1970B. Miles Bluebells & Bittersweet vii. 113/3 M[onarda] didyma (Oswego-tea) is usually red, raising round heads of lipped flowers 4 feet in midsummer. |