单词 | grain of wheat |
释义 | > as lemmasgrain of wheat a. The fruit or seed of wheat and the allied food-plants or grasses (†rarely of beans, etc.); the plants themselves whether reaped or standing; = corn n.1 3, 4 †Also grain of wheat.In England the colloquial word for this sense is corn, which in the U.S. has a different application. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] corn871 grainc1315 frumentc1440 stuff1461 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > cereal plants or corn cornc897 vetchc1300 grainc1315 blade1553 Pennsylvania corn1739 cereal1868 c1315 Shoreham 30 Jesus seyth the vygne be hys, And eke the greyn of wete. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. vii. 112 Schal no greyn that heer groweth gladen ow at neode. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 598 Wel wiste he, by the droghte and by the reyn The yeldynge of his seed and of his greyn. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 217 Eek hillis yeld is Wel gretter grayn and fewer, then in feeld is. 1467 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 382 Barly ne malte ne none other greyne. ?1552 Certayne Causes Decaye Eng. sig. Avij Euery ploughe to sell .xxx. quarters of grayne by the yeare. 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xxxvii. 71/2 They haue a custome..to cast corne & other graine vpon the ground to feed birds & beastes withal. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii. 66 A Girnell for grayne. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 120 The lab'ring Swain Scratch'd with a Rake, a Furrow for his Grain . View more context for this quotation 1730 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons 76 Wide flies the tedded grain. 1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol ii. 133 The ripen'd Grain, whose bending Ears Invite the Reaper's Hand. 1753 J. Bartlet Gentleman's Farriery i. 2 Beans afford the strongest nourishment of all grain. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 344 All this tribe..feeding upon grain. 1818 W. Cobbett Year's Resid. U.S.A. i. i. 15 The general harvest for grain (what we call corn) is a full month earlier than in the South of England! 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess Concl. 162 A lord of fat prize-oxen and of sheep,..A pamphleteer on guano and on grain. 1879 J. D. Burns Mem. & Rem. 422 The husbandman employs different processes in preparing his grain for use. < as lemmas |
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