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▪ I. ˈsea-holm1 rare—0. [holm1.] ‘A small uninhabited island’ (J.); hence in later Dicts. ▪ II. ˈsea-holm2 [holm2.] = sea-holly.
c1550Lloyd Treas. Health (c 1560) N v b, The herbe and rote of seaholme sodden and dronke with wyne. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. i. 125 The Seaholme heere, that spreadeth all our shore,..Whose roote th' Eringo is. 1728Bradley Dict. Bot. II, Sea-Holm, or Hulver, in Latin, Aquifolium. 1850Miss Pratt Comm. Things of Sea-side i. 18 [Eryngium maritimum] is known on the several parts of our coast by a variety of names, as the sea hulver, sea holly, and sea holme. attrib.1602Carew Cornwall i. 19 The Seaholme roote. |