单词 | heartsease |
释义 | heartseasen. 1. Chiefly in form heart's ease. Peace of mind; freedom from care or worry; contentment. Also: something that brings peace of mind or contentment. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > freedom from trouble, care, or sorrow > [noun] lissOE carelessnessc1000 restOE peacea1225 ease?c1225 bielda1300 quietc1330 heartseasea1393 suretya1413 securitya1425 secureness1550 serenity1599 assecurance1616 euthymy1623 sereneness1628 levitya1631 repose1652 untroublednessa1660 serenitude1672 serene1744 securance1849 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. l. 135 (MED) For thin hertes ese, I schal fulfille thi preiere. c1415 (c1395) G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale (Corpus Oxf.) (1873) l. 434 And wisly bringe hem alle in hertes eese [c1405 Ellesmere reste and ese]. 1461 C. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 199 To his pleswre and ȝowr hertys hesse. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin (1899) xxvi. 478 I myght neuer be in hertes ese till I hadde yow seyn. a1569 A. Kingsmill Conf. containing Conflict with Satan 50 in Most Excellent & Comfortable Treat. (new ed.) (1578) He is at heartesease both in mind and bodie. 1591 Troublesome Raigne Iohn ii. sig. B4v Hap and harts-ease braue Lordings be your lot. 1640 G. Abbot Whole Bk. Iob Paraphr. xx. 129/1 Hee shall be incessantly pursued with vexations, and shall enjoy no hearts-ease. 1672 E. Ravenscroft Citizen turn'd Gentleman v. 94 I..came in haste to wish long life, continual health, and all hearts ease to my friend. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. vi. 58 In mere wantonness, and heart's-ease, I was for buffeting the moon. 1792 T. Holcroft Anna St. Ives VI. civ. 89 The thought is heart's ease. 1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha x. 140 Songs of happiness and heart's-ease. 1889 F. E. Willard Glimpses Fifty Years ii. ii. 49 The very presence of books was a heart's ease. 1948 K. Tynan Lett. (1994) ii. 152 I want you on terms of heartsease and joy and mellowness and human comradeship. 1998 B. J. Wylie Enough ii. 29 Simpler ways lead to peace of mind and heart's ease. 2008 Buffalo News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 10 July F. 10 As both task and hearts ease, the author set herself the goal of reading one full book every day for an entire year. 2. a. The wild pansy, Viola tricolor, which has small white or cream flowers with purple and yellow markings. Also: any of various other pansies (wild or cultivated), esp. the field pansy, V. arvensis, and (more fully mountain heartsease, yellow heartsease) the yellow-flowered mountain pansy, Viola lutea (now rare). Also in figurative context (cf. sense 1). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pea flowers > violet and allied flowers > allied flowers pansyc1450 heartsease1530 pansy flower1530 three (also two) faces under (or in) a (or one) hood1548 bulbous violet1578 love-in-idleness1578 sweet violet1578 pensea1592 cull-me-to-you1597 dog's tooth violet1597 dog violet1597 kiss-me-ere-I-rise1597 live in idleness1597 wild violet1597 yellow violet1597 love-and-idle1630 love-in-idle1664 trinity1699 fancy1712 wood violet1713 marsh violet1753 tree violet1753 kiss-me-at-the-gate1787 bird's-foot violet1802 Parma violet1812 Johnny-jump-up1827 stepmother1828 Neapolitan violet1830 garden gate1842 butterfly pea1848 kissa1852 pinkany-John1854 viola1871 kiss-me1877 pink-eyed John1877 face and hood1886 roosterhead1894 trout-lily1909 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 231/1 Hertes-ease, menve pensee. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. ii. 149 This floure is called..in English Pances, Loue in idleness, and Hartes ease. 1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. B The checkerd (Paunsie) or party coloured Harts ease. 1599 Epist. Dedicatory in Lyfe Syr T. More (1950) 4 The golden marygold of obedience, hartsease of a setled conscience. 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole lii. 283 In English Hartsease, and Pansies of the French name Pensees. Some giue it foolish names, as Loue in idlenesse, Cull me to you, and Three faces in a hood. 1666 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 2) 78 Flowers in Prime, or yet lasting [in August]... Yellow mountain hearts-ease. 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 100 This Boy..wears more of that Herb called Hearts-ease in his Bosom. View more context for this quotation 1718 Culpeper's Eng. Physician Enlarged 159 Hearts-ease... It is also called by those that are more moderate, Three Faces in a Hood,..and in Sussex we call them Pansies. 1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. iii. 331 Three colour'd Violet or Heart's Ease. 1828 T. Moore Ill Omens iii She stole through the garden, where heart's-ease was growing. 1855 W. J. Conybeare Perversion II. 217 He stopped to quote Wordsworth over the first mountain-heartsease that fell in his way. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1218 The endless varieties of Heartsease, or Pansy, are all derived from the cornfield weed V[iola] tricolor, and the allied species V. altaica from Tartary, and V. grandiflora from Switzerland. 1941 E. Linklater Man on my Back xxiii. 314 Without protection from the wind, no taller flowers than heart's-ease, tormentil, or sea-pinks can be certain of their growth in Orkney. 1995 Church Times 8 Sept. 14/5 Ajuga, phlox, pinks, heart's-ease, some sweet peas, several pretty new polygonums and a planting of attractively mottled ginger mint. 2011 C. Fisher Flowers of Renaissance 139/1 The English word heartsease has become the usual name for the little wild pansy or viola, which in the Renaissance was the only type known. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > cruciferous flowers > yellow or orange flowers wall-fairc1450 winter gillyflower1547 heartsease1548 wall gillyflower1548 gillyflower1578 keiri1578 wallflower1578 alyssum1731 queen's balm1797 wall1825 warrior1825 cheiranthus1850 gilly1858 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.vijv Viola..There are diuerse sortes of Leucoion. One is called in english Cheiry, Hertes ease or wal Gelefloure..it hath yealowe floures. 1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. 48v, in Bulwarke of Defence This herbe [sc. ‘Viola alba’],..is commonly called Sweete William, or Hartes ease. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. iii. 151 The yellow Gillofer is called..in English Wall floures and Hartes ease. c. U.S. The plant redshank, Persicaria maculosa (a naturalized weed in North America); (also) any of several other North American plants of the genera Persicaria or Polygonum. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > North American > other plants bear grass1750 gardenia1756 sisyrinchium1767 heartsease1785 blazing star1789 nondo1791 unicorn-plant1796 screw-stem1802 American centaury1803 wild ginger?1804 pinweed1814 sabbatia1814 mountain mint1817 orange-root1817 richweed1818 goldenseal1828 pipeweed1837 snow plant1846 lopseed1850 devil's claw1876 turkey's beard1884 richweed1894 blue star grass1999 1785 M. Cutler in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 440 Polygonum floribus hexandris, digynis, spicis ovato-oblongis,... Heartsease. Spotted Arsmart. 1832 W. D. Williamson Hist. State Maine I. 124 Hearts-ease resembles arsmart in appearance. 1879 J. Allen Blessed Bees 113 In addition to the buckwheat there was now a very large quantity of heartsease, a plant resembling smartweed, and often called by that name. 1903 C. C. Miller Forty Years among Bees 122 The summer of 1902 was very wet, and for the first time in my observation heartsease..was busily worked upon by the bees. 1948 Econ. Bot. 2 187/2 In this region heartsease ranks next to the clovers in volume of honey produced. 1965 W. Needham & B. Mussey Bk. Country Things 139 Smartweed grows wild here, and looks so much like heartsease that you can scarcely tell them apart. 2003 T. P. Simon et al. Biol. Response Signatures xiv. 265 The dominant species included..Polygonum lapathifolium (heartsease..). 3. A representation of a heartsease flower as a decoration or ornament. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > flowers flowerc1230 flourishingc1384 fleuronc1385 rose1415 pansyc1450 columbine1459 lily1459 fleur-de-lis1475 heartseasea1542 honeysuckle1548 flower-work1601 floretry1615 branching1652 fleuret1811 anthemion1816 rosace1823 fleur1841 flowering1862 flowerage1864 millefleurs1908 rosette1931 a1542 Queen Katherine Howard in Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation (1715) III. App. iii. lxxii. 171 He gave me a Heart's-Ease of Silk for a New-Year's Gift. 1621 G. Wither Motto (new ed.) Explan. of Embleme His Mantle, with Hearts-ease y wrought doth show, What He, doth of his owne well being, know. 1779 Lady's Mag. Aug. 435/2 A suit of cloaths..richly ornamented in needle-work with many beautiful flowers, amongst which could be very easily distinguished hearts-ease, carnations, pinks, roses, &c. 1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mystery ix. 69/2 On one of those fingers was a ring, whose fine large stones formed a hearts-ease. 1983 C. Erickson First Elizabeth v. 57 Its cover, beautifully embroidered in blue and silver threads, with clusters of purple heart's-ease and the queen's initials intertwined, proclaimed the giver's proficiency in needlework. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > standards and values of currencies > [noun] > specific monetary units or units of account > specific English shillingc900 poundOE markOE half-marka1056 Mk.1642 heartsease1665 1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. v. 50 Hearts ease, a twenty shillings piece. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Hearts ease, a twenty shilling piece. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] drink1042 liquor1340 bousea1350 cidera1382 dwale1393 sicera1400 barrelc1400 strong drinkc1405 watera1475 swig1548 tipple1581 amber1598 tickle-brain1598 malt pie1599 swill1602 spicket1615 lap1618 John Barleycornc1625 pottle1632 upsy Englisha1640 upsy Friese1648 tipplage1653 heartsease1668 fuddle1680 rosin1691 tea1693 suck1699 guzzlea1704 alcohol1742 the right stuff1748 intoxicant1757 lush1790 tear-brain1796 demon1799 rum1799 poison1805 fogram1808 swizzle1813 gatter1818 wine(s) and spirit(s)1819 mother's milkc1821 skink1823 alcoholics1832 jough1834 alky1844 waipiro1845 medicine1847 stimulant1848 booze1859 tiddly1859 neck oil1860 lotion1864 shrab1867 nose paint1880 fixing1882 wet1894 rabbit1895 shicker1900 jollop1920 mule1920 giggle-water1929 rookus juice1929 River Ouse1931 juice1932 lunatic soup1933 wallop1933 skimish1936 sauce1940 turps1945 grog1946 joy juice1960 1668 Lillies Invitation (single sheet) The brisk Canary, French both white and red The brave Strongwaters Hartsease Anniseed. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Hearts-ease,..an ordinary sort of Strong Water. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Hearts ease,..one of the names for gin. 1830 W. Clarke Clarke's Compl. Cellarman 164 Prince's Cordial, or Heart's Ease. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1393 |
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