单词 | hares-foot |
释义 | hare's-footn. 1. A species of clover ( Trifolium arvense), with soft hair about the flowers. Also called hare's-foot trefoil. See also hare-foot n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > clover or trefoil white clovereOE cloverc1000 hare-foota1300 clerewort?a1400 clover-grassa1400 three-leaved grass14.. trefoilc1400 sucklingc1440 four-leaved grassc1450 trefle1510 Trifolium?1541 trinity grass1545 Dutch1548 lote1548 hare's-foot1562 lotus1562 triple grass1562 blain-grass1570 meadow trefoil1578 purple grass1597 purplewort1597 satin flower1597 cithyse1620 true-love grass?a1629 garden balsam1633 hop-clover1679 Burgundian hay1712 strawberry trefoil1731 honeysuckle trefoil1735 red clover1764 buffalo-clover1767 marl-grass1776 purple trefoil1785 white trefoil1785 yellow trefoil1785 sulla1787 cow-grass1789 strawberry-bearing trefoil1796 zigzag trefoil1796 rabbit's foot1817 lotus grass1820 strawberry-headed trefoil1822 mountain liquorice1836 hop-trefoil1855 clustered clover1858 alsike1881 mountain clover1882 knop1897 Swedish clover1908 sub clover1920 four-leaf clover1927 suckle- 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 26 Lagopus maye be called in Englishe Haris foot or rough clauer. 1714 J. Petiver in Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 62 Its blush Flowers stand in a round flusey Head, like our Haresfoot. 1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. II. 109 Trifolium arvense (Hare's-foot Trefoil). 2. The Corkwood tree ( Ochroma Lagopus) of the West Indies and Central America; so called from the dehiscent ripe fruit with the cotton of the seeds protruding from it. ( Treasury Bot. 1866.) 3. a. A hare's foot used in applying rouge, etc., to the face. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > instrument used to apply hare's-footc1800 c1800 C. Mathews in A. Mathews Mem. C. Mathews (1838) I. xv. 305 Camel's hair pencils, hare's feet, whiting, burnt corks. 1827 L. T. Rede Road to Stage 38 Burn a cork to powder, wet it with beer (which will fix the colouring matter), and apply it with a hare's-foot, or a cloth. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 206 The young lady with the liberal display of legs, who is kindly painting his face with a hare's foot. 1859 E. Winstanley Shifting Scenes Theatr. Life xxi. 200 There are pots of rouge, hare's feet, powder~boxes. 1877 ‘Haresfoot & Rouge’ How to ‘Make-up’ 13 Then with a hare's foot apply a colouring of Rouge to the cheeks. 1888 J. Ker Hist. Preaching (ed. 2) 281 A hare's-foot brush to touch the dust of holy statues. 1939–40 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 1097/1 Theatrical make-up... Hares' feet. b. See hare-foot n. 1. Compounds hare's-foot fern n. a name of Davallia canariensis; also extended to other species, as (in Australia) D. pyxidata. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > hare's-foot fern hare's-foot fern1866 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Davallia, a..genus of polypodiaceous ferns..They have scaly creeping rhizomes, which feature has given rise to the name of Hare's Foot Fern, applied to D. canariensis. 1882 Garden 29 Apr. 301/3 Davallia Fijiensis Plumosa [is] a very elegant Hare's-foot Fern. hare's-foot sedge n. Carex lagopina. ΚΠ 1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. VI. 27 Hare's-foot Sedge..a very rare plant. hare's-foot trefoil n. see sense 1. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1562 |
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