† hawdodn.
dialect. Obsolete.
A name for the Blue Cornflower, Centaurea Cyanus (Britten and Holland).
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bluebottle?a1450
bluet?a1450
blue poppya1500
hawdod?1523
blue-blaw1538
cornflower1578
blue bonnet1777
blue cap1821
French pink1854
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xiiv Dyuers maner of wedes, as thistyls, kedlokes, dockes..goldes, hadoddes, dogfenell.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xiii Hawdod hath a blewe flower and a fewe lytell leues..and groweth commenly in rye vpon lene grounde and doth lytell hurt.
1730 J. Hobson Diary 7 May in C. Jackson et al. Yorks. Diaries (1877) I. 296 (Brit. & Hol.) A flower call'd hawdods.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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n.?1523- death-giver
- death-giving
- death-head
- death-hunter
- death-ill
- death-in-life
- death-in-life existence
- death-in-life state
- death-laden
- death-mask
- death-pale
- death-ruckle
- death-ruttle
- death-shadowed
- death-sick
- death-sickness
- death-sough
- death-stour
- death-stricken
- death-struck
- death-strucken
- death-subduing
- death-threatening
- death-trap
- death-weary