单词 | cinquefoil |
释义 | cinquefoilcinqfoiln.adj. A. n. 1. a. The plant Potentilla reptans (family Rosaceæ), with compound leaves each of five leaflets. Also used of other species with similar leaves, and as a book-name for the whole genus. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > rosaceous plants > [noun] > potentilla or cinquefoil quinquefoileOE five-leafc1000 goose-grassa1400 camorochec1440 five-leaved grass1526 tansyc1530 cinquefoil1538 potentilla1548 five-fingered grass1562 agrimony1578 silverweed1578 goose-tansy1597 silver grass1600 silverwort1611 five-finger-grass1640 midsummer silvera1697 strawberry cinquefoil1753 Scotch cinquefoil1789 goose-weed1865 five-finger1866 fair days1884 fair-grass1884 potentil1884 1538 W. Turner Libellus de re Herbaria at Qvinqve folivm Synckfoly. 1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. f. xxxvii Take of cinkefoyle, the leues & rotes. 1562 W. Turner Herball (1568) ii. 110 b Quinquefolium is named in English Cinkfoly, or fyvefyngred grasse, or herb fyvelefe. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 41v Necessarie herbes to growe in the garden for Phisick..Cinqfile. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Quintefueille..an Hearbe called Cinkefield. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. D There growes the cintfoyle, and the hyacinth. 1595 Bk. of Armorie 53 Flower de luce, & Quint foiles. 1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads ii. 33 Upon Lote and Cinquefoil feeding. 1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom 304 The Cinquefoils..numbering nearly two hundred species. 1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 332 Sprinkled with the orange Alpine cinquefoil. b. marsh cinquefoil: = Comarum palustre. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > marsh cinquefoil marshlocks1776 Comarum1778 marsh cinquefoil1778 1778 G. White Let. 3 July in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 235 [I found] Comarum palustre..or marsh cinque foil. 2. a. An ornamental design resembling the leaf of cinque-foil. Obsolete except as in A. 1b, A. 2c. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > foils cinquefoil1424 quinquefoil1445 trefoil1548 hexafoil1862 1424 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 56 Six saucers of siluere werkid with a sink foil vnder þe brerdeȝ. 1445 Will of Edmund Blackett (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/3) f. 233 A basyn with the qwynfoile with the Ewer. 1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. B iij b Gerattyng haue .ix. bagges of cootarmuris... The fifthe baage is quynfolis. 1534 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 193 A huntynge horne harnesid with siluer with a bukkill & xviii barres & a synkfoile. b. As a charge in Heraldry. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of vegetation > [noun] > leaf > cinquefoil cinquefoil1592 frasier?1828 1592 W. Wyrley Lord Chandos in True Vse Armorie 88 In siluer shield a cinquefoil blue. 1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry xii. 71 In the early Rolls the cinquefoil and the six-foil are used without any distinction. c. Architecture. An ornament used in the Pointed style, consisting of five divisions or ‘leaves’ formed by the spaces between a series of cusps, inscribed in a pointed arch or in a circular ring. Hence cinquefoil-headed adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > ornamentation by foils > specific number of foils sexfoil1688 quatrefoil1805 cinquefoil1816 septfoil1819 trefoil head1825 multifoil1835 polyfoil1842 septemfoil1842 trefoil1842 sixfoil1849 four-foil1860 octofoil1867 1816 Gentleman's Mag. 86 i. 222 The window..is divided by two mullions into three cinquefoil-headed lights. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 950 The cinquefoil, when inscribed in a circle, forms a rosette of five equal leaves having an open space in the middle, the leaves being formed by the open spaces. 1849 E. A. Freeman Hist. Archit. 418 With..the cinquefoil, and even the actual pointed horse-shoe arch. B. adj. [= Latin quinquefolius] = cinquefoiled adj. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > plant defined by leaves > [adjective] > having many or particular number of leaves cinquefoilc1420 quatrefoil?1440 five-leaved1658 two-leaved1688 septifolious1721 tetraphyllous1731 trefoil1752 biphyllous1756 triphyllous1760 polyphyllous1785 decaphyllous1793 four-leaved1793 bifoliate1836 trefoiled1854 decemfoliate1858 polyphylline1872 trefoliated1900 decemjugate- the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > rosaceous plants > [adjective] cinquefoilc1420 rosaceous1701 rosacean1846 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [adjective] > foiled cinquefoil1752 trefoil1752 quatrefoil1776 trefoiled1815 cinquefoiled1823 quatrefoiled1834 foiled1835 foliating1835 quatrefoliated1835 trefoliated1835 foliated1838 septfoil1844 sexfoil1846 sexfoiled1846 multifoil1849 trifoliated1850 multifoiled1851 trefoil-headed1861 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [adjective] > foils trefoiledc1420 cinquefoil1752 cinquefoiled1823 octofoil1844 octofoiled1844 septfoil1844 sexfoil1846 quinquefoil1909 c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 656 Nowe betes sowe, and synk or quater foil Transplaunte. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 90/1 The Cinquefoile Avens hath the leaf divided into 5 parts. 1752 Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 143 The Rays on the upper Part forming a beautiful cinquefoil Figure. 1815 T. Rickman in J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 139 In many doors, a trefoil and even cinquefoil feathering is used. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.c1420 |
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