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sea-rush
[rush n.1]
1. A species of Juncus (see rush n.1 4 a). Also † sea-rush grass.
1562Turner Herbal ii. 144 b, Sparta..is a kind of sea bente or sea rishe. 1597Gerarde Herbal i. xxiii. 30 The flowers of this Sea Rush grasse are faire and beautifull. 1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa iii. 160 They make them certaine socks of sea-rushes. 1712–13Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) IV. 69 Our Saviour himself was to be crown'd with a Crown of Thorns made of y⊇ same sea Rushes. 1725Bradley's Fam. Dict., Sea-Rush, Sea-Rush-Grass, or Spanish Trefoil, a Plant whose Seed is very small, and black. 1796Withering Brit. Pl. (ed. 3) II. 346 Juncus acutus,..Pricking large Sea-rush. Sand Hills on the sea coast of Merionethshire. Ray. 1882‘Ouida’ Maremma I. 116 The pungent sea-rush grew in long lines along the shore.
2. = sea-rod 1.
1850Miss Pratt Comm. Things of Sea-side iv. 262 The Virgularia, which the fishermen call Sea-rush. 1855Kingsley Glaucus (1878) 37 Sea-rush (Virgularia mirabilis), a spine a foot long, with hundreds of rosy flowerets arranged in half-rings round it from end to end. |