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Barnaby|ˈbɑːnəbɪ|
[a. F. Barnabé, ad. L. Barnabas.]
By-form of the name Barnabas; whence Barnaby-day, Barnaby bright, or long Barnaby, St. Barnabas' Day, the 11th of June, in Old Style reckoned the ‘longest day’; Barnaby-thistle, the Centaurea solstitialis, so named from its flowering about the 11th of June.
1595Spenser Epithal. 266 This day the sunne is in his chiefest hight, With Barnaby the bright. 1645G. Daniel Poems Wks. 1878 II. 49 This short December day, It would spin out, to make my Readers say, Long Barnabie was never halfe so gay. 1650Fuller Pisgah ii. xii. 255 Staying the Sun in Gibeon..This was the Barnaby day of the whole world. 1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 32 Barnaby-bright would be much too short for him to tell you all that he could say. 1805Scott Last Minstr. iv. iv, It was but last St. Barnabright They sieged him a whole summer night. 1598Florio, Calcatrippa, Star-thistle, or Saint Barnabaes thistle. |