lemonn.1
/ˈlɛmən/, U.S. /ˈlɛmən/ 1.
a. An ovate fruit with a pale yellow rind, and an acid juice. Largely used for making a beverage and for flavouring. The juice yields citric acid; the rind yields oil or essence of lemons, used in cookery and perfumery.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > citrus fruit > [noun] > lemon
lemonc1400
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > citrus fruit > lemon
lemonc1400
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxi. 98 Þai enoynt þam..with þe ius of þe fruyt þat es called lymons.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 15 Orengis, almondis, and the pomegarnade, Lymons, datez.
1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 45 b The iuyce of orenges or lymons may be taken after meales in a lyttell quantitie.
?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 11 Pooungarnets, Lemmanz, and Pypinz.
1594 Lady Russell in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. iii. 46 I..drank..water and limmons, by Phisitions advise.
1645 E. Waller Battle of Summer-Islands i. 6 That happy Island where huge Lemmons grow.
1682 R. Boyle Contin. New Exper. Physico-mech.: 2nd Pt. 79 I cut a Limon asunder, and put both halfs into two Receivers.
1695 W. Congreve Love for Love iv. i. 70 Safer..than Letters writ in Juice of Lemon, for no Fire can fetch it out.
1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 82 The Lemon and the piercing Lime..Their lighter Glories blend.
1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer i. 12 I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 459 Oil of lemons is extracted from the rind of the lemon.
1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 180 The scurvy has hardly been known in our navy since limes and lemons were ordered by law to be carried by all vessels sailing to foreign parts.
b. A person with a tart or snappy disposition (quot. 1863). More usually (slang), a simpleton, a loser; a person easily deluded or taken advantage of (see also quot. 1950).
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > sourness or bitterness of temper > [noun] > sour-tempered person
sourock1723
sourling1784
lemon1863
vinegar-cruet1873
sour-ball1900
sourpuss1937
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > [noun] > gullible person, dupe
foola1382
woodcockc1430
geckc1530
cousinc1555
cokes1567
milch cow1582
gudgeon1584
coney1591
martin1591
gull1594
plover1599
rook1600
gull-finch1604
cheatee1615
goata1616
whirligig1624
chouse1649
coll1657
cully1664
bubble1668
lamb1668
Simple Simon?1673
mouth1680
dupe1681
cull1698
bub1699
game1699
muggins1705
colour1707
milk cow1727
flat1762
gulpin1802
slob1810
gaggee1819
sucker1838
hoaxee1840
softie1850
foozle1860
lemon1863
juggins1882
yob1886
patsy1889
yapc1894
fall guy1895
fruit1895
meemaw1895
easy mark1896
lobster1896
mark1896
wise guy1896
come-on1897
pushover1907
John1908
schnookle1908
Gretchen1913
jug1914
schnook1920
soft touch1924
prospect1931
steamer1932
punter1934
dill1941
Joe Soap1943
possum1945
Moreton Bay1953
easy touch1959
1863 P. S. Davis Young Parson xxvii. 222 Mrs. Trimble..had a great deal to say, and no little acrimony in her way of saying it. Indeed, she was what the knowing ones denominated ‘a lemon’.
1908 J. M. Sullivan Criminal Slang 21 Sucker or lemon, a victim of criminals and tramps.
1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee xiv. 208 There was always a danger of offending a man who has been runner-up in a boxing championship if you make him appear ‘like a lemon’.
1931 P. G. Wodehouse Big Money i. 27 I don't know why it is, rich men's sons are always the worst lemons in creation.
1950 E. Partridge Slang To-day & Yesterday (ed. 3) iii. 313 If she is unpopular, she is a pill, a pickle, a lemon.
1966 J. Porter Sour Cream x. 137 Criminal carelessness, that's what it was! Leaving me standing here like a lemon.
1973 ‘A. Hall’ Tango Briefing i. 17 They'd sent me down to show me something and they knew I couldn't see it and I felt a bit of a lemon.
c. slang (originally U.S.). Something which is bad or undesirable or which fails to meet one's expectations. the answer is a lemon: used to denote that a reply is unsatisfactory or non-existent.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > [noun] > that which disappoints
apple of Sodom1635
disappointment1843
suck-in1856
anticlimax1858
sell1890
lemon1909
damp squib1963
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > substandard or defective
lemon1931
padiddle1948
lemon1978
1909 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 20 Feb. 38/2 The wheel goes around; wherever the little indicator at the point of the pin stops, there is your prize—or your lemon.
1912 C. Mathewson Pitching in Pinch x. 220 The papers were mentioning him as the ‘$11,000 lemon’.
1914 ‘High Jinks, Jr.’ Choice Slang 14 Lemon, a disappointment.
1922 M. Arlen ‘Piracy’ i. v. 59 ‘What would happen if we went on strike?’.. No one among them..dreamed of answering. The answer was a lemon.
1927 Daily Express 13 Dec. 17/1 Middlesbrough seem to have ‘picked a lemon’, for the draw gives them South Shields as opponents.
1930 P. MacDonald Link iv. 75 The answer at first seems to be a lemon, but they're at least the sort of questions that make one think.
1931 Morning Post 19 June 6 ‘I sold five lemons for £210,’ said a witness... ‘Lemon’ was a term used in the trade for second-hand cars of little value.
1959 M. T. Williams Art of Jazz (1960) ix. 85 This great record would have been a lemon commercially in 1925.
1961 C. Mabee Seaway Story vii. 70 He first politely wished success to New York's lemon, the new twelve-foot Erie Barge Canal.
1963 Guardian 21 Jan. 16/6 The French nuclear deterrent..is a military lemon of the first order.
1969 N. Freeling Tsing-Boum x. 68 One makes requests through official channels and the answer is a lemon.
1972 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 17 June 7/3 Mechanics are less than delighted to see lines of lemons converging on their service department.
1972 Sydney Morning Herald 26 Aug. 1/2 The effect of this on consumers is too many lemons or part lemons coupled with near impossibility of obtaining redress from the manufacturer.
d. to hand (someone) a lemon: to pass off a sub-standard article as good; to swindle (a person), to do (someone) down.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > cheat, swindle [phrase]
to pull a finchc1386
to wipe a person's nosea1475
to take (a person) at advantage(s)1523
to play fast and loose1557
to play false1576
to joint a person's nose of?1577
to make a cousin of1580
to sell smoke1589
munge1660
to sell (a person) a packet1886
to beat the count1897
to sell (a person) a pup1901
to hand (someone) a lemon1906
to sell (someone) a bill of goods1927
1906 H. Green At Actors' Boarding House 36 Him gettin' handed a lemon in that English act, puts us up.
1922 P. G. Wodehouse Clicking of Cuthbert x. 233 ‘It did indeed begin to appear as though our beloved monarch..had been handed the bitter fruit of the citron.’ The quaint old idiom is almost untranslateable, but one sees what he means.]
1939 E. S. Gardner D.A. draws Circle (1940) vi. 87 The way things are now, I co-operate with them. If they hand me a lemon, I can walk up and down the streets cussing them out for letting politics interfere with the administration of justice.
1970 New Yorker 12 Dec. 131/1 These senators felt that the President had handed them two lemons, had gone to the mat for his choices when he didn't have to.
e. slang. The head.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > [noun]
nolleOE
headOE
topa1225
copc1264
scalpa1300
chiefc1330
crownc1330
jowla1400
poll?a1400
testea1400
ball in the hoodc1400
palleta1425
noddle?1507
costard?1515
nab?1536
neck1560
coxcomb1567
sconce1567
now1568
headpiece1579
mazer1581
mazardc1595
cockcomb1602
costrel1604
cranion1611
pasha1616
noddle pate1622
block1635
cranium1647
sallet1652
poundrel1664
nob1699
crany?1730
knowledge box1755
noodle1762
noggin1769
napper1785
garret1796
pimple1811
knowledge-casket1822
coco1828
cobbra1832
coconut1834
top-piece1838
nut1841
barnet1857
twopenny1859
chump1864
topknot1869
conk1870
masthead1884
filbert1886
bonce1889
crumpet1891
dome1891
roof1897
beanc1905
belfry1907
hat rack1907
melon1907
box1908
lemon1923
loaf1925
pound1933
sconec1945
nana1966
1923 P. G. Wodehouse Inimitable Jeeves i. 13 ‘What might you have missed?’ I asked, the old lemon being slightly clouded.
1952 Coast to Coast 195 If you had any brains in that big lemon you'd wipe me. You'd get away.
f. U.S. slang. An informer, one who turns State's evidence (see also quot. 1931).
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > evidence > [noun] > a witness > one who turns state's evidence
provera1325
approverc1475
appellor1660
probator1676
lemon1931
1931 Amer. Speech 6 439 Lemon, one who testifies for the prosecution.
1935 G. Ingram ‘Stir’ Train ii. 30 ‘You think you got the low-down on me: well, see me put it on you!’ ‘You talk like a “lemon”!’
1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 70/2 Lemon, one who turns state's evidence.
2. The tree ( Citrus limonum) which bears this fruit, largely cultivated in the South of Europe and elsewhere. Cf. lemon-tree n. at Compounds 2.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant bearing citrus fruit > lemon trees
lemon-tree1574
lemon1615
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey (1621) 3 Groues of Oranges, Lemonds, Pomegranates, Fig-trees [etc.].
3. With distinguishing word prefixed. Applied to plants of different families bearing a yellow fruit. sweet lemon: the Citrus lumia, cultivated in the South of Europe ( Treasury Bot.). water lemon: Passiflora laurifolia of the West Indies. wild lemon: (a) Podophyllum peltatum; (b) an Australian timber tree ( Canthium latifolium).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > passion-fruit plants
maracock1609
granadilla1613
passion-tree1728
water lemon1756
May-pop1851
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Ranunculaceae (crowfoot and allies) > [noun] > podophyllum or May-apple
mayapple1731
duck's foot1755
Indian apple1833
hog apple1837
lime-plant1844
Podophyllum1844
mandrake1845–50
wild lemon1882
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 328 The Water-Lemon... It grows frequent in the woods.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 317 Water Lemon, Passiflora.
1882 Garden 25 Feb. 127/1 The flowers..are succeeded in May by oval yellowish fruits called wild Lemons.
4. The colour of the lemon; pale yellow. More fully lemon-colour n. Also in combinations.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > pale yellow > greenish
citrinea1398
citrineness?a1425
citrinity?a1425
primrose colour1600
citron1612
lemon-colour1707
lemon1794
primrose1805
primrose yellow1839
lemon-hue1845
1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 28 [Colours] Lemon or gold yellow—the purest.
1886 C. E. Pascoe London To-day (ed. 3) i. 27 Figured lemon-satin curtains.
1901 Speaker 12 Jan. 396/2 The reds and lemons and greens of its [sc. Uppsala's] houses..form a charming bouquet of colour.
5. quasi-adj., short for lemon-coloured adj. at Compounds 1c. So in names of pigments, lemon cadmium, lemon chrome.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > pale yellow > greenish
subcitrinec1386
citrinea1398
citron-coloured1574
citrean1656
citrinous1665
primrose-coloured1747
lemon-coloured1758
primrose1788
lemon-yellow1807
citron-hued1852
lemon1875
primrosy1882
citron1924
1875 J. D. Heath Compl. Croquet-player 89 The finest vermilion, ‘drop black’, and ‘lemon chrome’, for red, black, and yellow respectively.
1882 Garden 22 July 64/3 The Evening Primrose covers the ground with large pale lemon flowers.
1886 York Herald 7 Aug. 8/2 A Lemon and White Setter Dog.
6. Abbreviation of lemonade n., lemon-juice n.; also bitter lemon, a mineral drink.
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the world > food and drink > drink > fruit juice or squash > [noun] > juice with sugar and water
imperial water1535
lemonadoc1640
lemonade1664
orangeade1672
Barbados-water1700
imperial drink1767
imperial1772
beverage1796
lemon cordial1836
citronade1840
king's cup1843
ade1861
lemon1885
limeade1892
citron pressé1916
bellywash1959
nimbu pani1961
the world > food and drink > drink > aerated or carbonated drink > [noun] > fruit-flavoured
lemonade1664
orangeade1672
raspberryade1846
cherryade1892
bitter lemon1962
1885 List of Subscribers Exchange Syst. (United Telephone Co.) (ed. 6) p. xv. Kindly send us..one gross of seltzer, one gross of soda, one gross of lemon, and half that quantity of splits.
1898 J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 228 ‘Oh! a lemon an' dash'll do me,’ she says... So I calls fer two lemons, wiv a dash o' bitter.
1956 R. Postgate in C. Ray Compl. Imbiber I. 182 ‘Port 'n lemon’, which was an evidence of feminine folly some years ago, was I suppose a sort of proletarian equivalent of pink champagne.
1962 Guardian 27 Aug. 3/1 His sister..drinks nothing but orange juice or bitter lemon.
1965 I. Fleming Man with Golden Gun viii. 110 Mr Hendriks..nursed a Schweppes Bitter Lemon.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. Simple attributive.
lemon-bloom n.
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1820 P. B. Shelley Fiordispina 47 Rods of myrtle-buds and lemon-blooms.
lemon-bush n.
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1884 Leisure Hour Feb. 82/2 Entangled its long fleece in a thorny lemon-bush.
lemon-colour n.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > pale yellow > greenish
citrinea1398
citrineness?a1425
citrinity?a1425
primrose colour1600
citron1612
lemon-colour1707
lemon1794
primrose1805
primrose yellow1839
lemon-hue1845
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1708) v. xvii. 128 The Dyers use it [Weld] for dying of bright Yellows and Limon-colours.
lemon-decoction n.
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1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. vi. 126 Crudeli speaks highly of lemon decoction..as a prophylactic [for malaria].
lemon-flower n.
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1819 P. B. Shelley Rosalind & Helen 64 Bowers, Of blooming myrtle and faint lemon-flowers.
lemon-garden n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of fruit > [noun] > orchard or fruit garden > type of
apple-garth1268
oliveyarda1382
olivetc1384
apple orchard?c1400
nut garden1535
oil-garden1535
olive garden1577
lemon-orchard1611
meloniere1658
orange grove1688
melonry1717
nutterya1729
peachery1789
lemon-grove1830
nut grove1840
prune orchard1847
lemon-garden1864
seed orchard1903
1864 M. J. Higgins Ess. (1875) 188 The celebrated lemon-gardens of the old principality.
lemon-grove n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of fruit > [noun] > orchard or fruit garden > type of
apple-garth1268
oliveyarda1382
olivetc1384
apple orchard?c1400
nut garden1535
oil-garden1535
olive garden1577
lemon-orchard1611
meloniere1658
orange grove1688
melonry1717
nutterya1729
peachery1789
lemon-grove1830
nut grove1840
prune orchard1847
lemon-garden1864
seed orchard1903
1830 Ld. Tennyson Recoll. Arab. Nights vii, in Poems 52 Far off, and where the lemongrove In closest coverture upsprung.
lemon-hue n.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > pale yellow > greenish
citrinea1398
citrineness?a1425
citrinity?a1425
primrose colour1600
citron1612
lemon-colour1707
lemon1794
primrose1805
primrose yellow1839
lemon-hue1845
1845 G. Budd On Dis. Liver 125 A jaundice, bearing the lighter tints, from a sallow suffusion to a fainter or more decided lemon hue.
lemon-juice n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > fruit juice or squash > [noun] > lemon juice or squash
lemon-juice1617
lemon squash1876
squash1894
citron pressé1916
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 255 A little Greeke Barke loaded..with tunnes of Lemons Juyce (which the Turks drinke like Nectar).
1709 London Gaz. No. 4584/4 Also 11 pieces of Lemon Juice, neat, an entire Parcel.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 19 We now can ascribe little or no therapeutic value to the lemon juice treatment first introduced by Owen Rees.
lemon-kernel n.
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1731 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 40/2 Sow Orange and Lemon-kernels in pots.
lemon-orchard n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of fruit > [noun] > orchard or fruit garden > type of
apple-garth1268
oliveyarda1382
olivetc1384
apple orchard?c1400
nut garden1535
oil-garden1535
olive garden1577
lemon-orchard1611
meloniere1658
orange grove1688
melonry1717
nutterya1729
peachery1789
lemon-grove1830
nut grove1840
prune orchard1847
lemon-garden1864
seed orchard1903
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Limonáro, a Lemmon hort-yard.
1870 J. H. Bennet Winter & Spring Mediterranean ii. 10 Even at Palermo..the lemon orchards are protected by walls.
lemon-peel n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > citrus fruit > lemon > pip or peel
lemon-peel1672
lemon-pip1886
1672 W. Wycherley Love in Wood iii. ii. 43 Warrant her breath with some Lemmon Peil.
1694 R. L'Estrange Fables (1714) cxxxvi. 152 Never without Limon-Pill in her Mouth, to correct an unsavoury Vapour of her Own.
1900 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 815/2 His round face the colour of lemon-peel.
lemon-pickle n.
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1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper iii. 64 A Tea Spoonful of Lemon Pickle.
lemon-pip n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > citrus fruit > lemon > pip or peel
lemon-peel1672
lemon-pip1886
1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge i, in Graphic 2 Jan. 18/1 Grains of wheat, swollen as large as lemon-pips.
lemon-tea n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > infused leaves, flowers, or fruit > [noun] > others
coltsfoota1627
sage tea?1706
pippin tea1709
lemon-tea1725
foltron1748
camomile-tea1753
sassafras tea1783
spruce tea1783
mountain tea1785
cow-slip tea1796
miserable1842
peppermint tea1844
violet tea1853
Swiss tea1860
coffee-tea1866
Jesuits' tea1866
St. Helena tea1875
cotton-leaf tea1881
tamarind watera1883
tamarind tea1883
mullein tea1887
rosehip tea1947
1725 I. Watts Logick i. iv. 87 Tea..is now-a-days become a common Name for many Infusions of Herbs, or Plants, in Water; as..Lemon-Tea, &c.
1932 L. Golding Magnolia St. ii. xi. 425 Reb Feivel sat sucking lemon-tea through a cube of sugar.
a1963 S. Plath Crossing Water (1971) 62 It'll be lemon-tea for me.
1975 Times 8 Feb. 7/4 There is no licence, but the lemon tea is fresh and good.
lemon-water n.
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a1625 J. Fletcher Womans Prize iv. v, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ppppp4/1 If you want Limon-waters, Or any thing to take the edge o' th Sea off, Pray speak.
b. Also of things flavoured with oil of lemons or lemon-juice.
lemon-cake n.
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1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper xi. 247 You make Lemon Cakes the same Way.
lemon-cheesecake n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > cheese-cake
cheesecake1440
resbon1587
talmouse1600
rattoon1656
curd cake1675
lemon-cheesecake1728
maid of honour1769
flamm1819
1728 E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 2) 120 To make Lemon Cheese-cakes.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xvi. 142 To make Lemon Cheesecakes.
lemon cordial n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > fruit juice or squash > [noun] > juice with sugar and water
imperial water1535
lemonadoc1640
lemonade1664
orangeade1672
Barbados-water1700
imperial drink1767
imperial1772
beverage1796
lemon cordial1836
citronade1840
king's cup1843
ade1861
lemon1885
limeade1892
citron pressé1916
bellywash1959
nimbu pani1961
1836 Mag. Domestic Econ. I. 182 Lemon cordial.
lemon-cream n.
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1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xvi. 143 Lemon Cream.
lemon-ice n.
lemon pie n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] > fruit pie
vaunt1508
warden-pie1579
apple pie1589
gooseberry-pie1747
plum pie1747
huckleberry pie1751
apple dowdy1823
cobbler1859
lemon pie1909
lemon meringue1914
1909 A. Arnold Cent. Cook Bk. Suppl. 584 Lemon pie. 2 lemons..sugar..butter..4 eggs..corn~starch.
1911 C. Harris Eve's Second Husband 154 Then you ate lemon pie, pound-cake and boiled custard.
1972 J. Potts Trouble-maker (1973) ii. 10 Their first square meal in three days. Corn and chicken. Homemade relishes. Lemon pie.
lemon posset n.
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1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper xiv. 287 To make a Lemon Posset.
lemon-pudding n.
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1852 C. Reade Peg Woffington (1853) 194 He never failed to eat of a certain lemon-pudding.
lemon-puff n.
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1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper xi. 254 To make Lemon Puffs.
lemon sauce n.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > fruit sauces
lemon sauce1747
cranberry sauce1767
black butter1775
apple buttera1813
Pennsylvania salve1899
Melba sauce1907
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ii. 36 To make Lemon-Sauce for boiled Fowls.
1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. x. 220 (heading) Lemon Sauce For Boiled Fowls.
1948 Good Housek. Cookery Bk. i. 15 Something piquant should be served with a dish that is very bland, as..lemon sauce with steamed sponge pudding.
c. Instrumental, parasynthetic, and similative.
lemon-coloured adj.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > pale yellow > greenish
subcitrinec1386
citrinea1398
citron-coloured1574
citrean1656
citrinous1665
primrose-coloured1747
lemon-coloured1758
primrose1788
lemon-yellow1807
citron-hued1852
lemon1875
primrosy1882
citron1924
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Lemonino, a kinde of lymond colour.
1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 218 As soon as the Sulphur is melted it will sublime in lemon-coloured flowers.
lemon-faced adj.
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1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. v. 178 The unfortunate husband of that lemon-faced woman with the white ruff.
lemon-flavoured adj.
lemon-scented adj.
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1868 ‘H. Lee’ Basil Godfrey's Caprice II. xliii. 254 A bushy lemon-scented geranium.
lemon-tinted adj.
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1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 288 It is this pigment [urobilin] that causes..the lemon-tinted skin.
lemon-yellow adj.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > pale yellow > greenish
subcitrinec1386
citrinea1398
citron-coloured1574
citrean1656
citrinous1665
primrose-coloured1747
lemon-coloured1758
primrose1788
lemon-yellow1807
citron-hued1852
lemon1875
primrosy1882
citron1924
1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 417 An extraordinary portion of carbon gives..a lemon-yellow colour.
1900 J. Hutchinson Archives Surg. XI. 40 With his pallor was mixed a certain degree of lemon-yellow tint.
C2. Special combinations.
lemon-balm n. the Melissa officinalis ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1888).
lemon-bird n. (see quot.).
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1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 65 Linnet (Linota cannabina)..Lemon bird (West Riding). A name given to those male linnets in the breeding season which have a yellowish hue on the breast.
lemon cheese n. (also lemon cheese curd) a confection made with lemons, butter, eggs, and sugar, and used as a spread or filling.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > relish > [noun] > spread > lemon curd
lemon cheese1853
lemon curd1895
1853 G. W. Francis Dict. Pract. Receipts (ed. 3) 211/2 Lemon cheese curd.
1891 R. Wells Mod. Flour Confectioner 101 Lemon cheese.
1909 Daily Chron. 17 Aug. 6/4 Boiling lemon cheese over a gas cooking apparatus.
lemon cling n. U.S. a variety of clingstone peach.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > peach > clingstone peach
presse1604
pavie1675
clingstone1840
lemon cling1848
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > peach > types of peach
presse1604
avant-peach1611
man peach1629
nutmeg1629
Roman peach1629
muscat1664
Rambouillet1664
winter peach1664
rumbullion1670
Orleans1674
pavie1675
Magdalenea1678
minion1691
admirable1693
maudlin1699
clingstone1705
nipple peach1719
rareripe1722
melter1766
vanguard1786
freestone1807
cling1845
lemon cling1848
peregrine1903
doughnut peach1993
1848 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1847 196 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (30th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 54) VI Fifteen specimens..of the lemon cling..measured over a foot in circumference.
lemon curd n. = lemon cheese n.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > relish > [noun] > spread > lemon curd
lemon cheese1853
lemon curd1895
1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 17/2 Lemon curd, for making Cheesecakes.
1902 Farm Field & Fireside 3 Jan. 460/2 Lemon Curd.—Half a pound of castor sugar,..two lemons.
1915 Home Chat 20 Nov. 322 Cheap Lemon Curd.
1948 J. Betjeman Sel. Poems 35 Lemon curd and Christmas cake.
1968 V. S. Pritchett Cab at Door iii. 36 On Thursday, she made her second baking, concentrating..on..her Eccles cakes, her puffs, her lemon-curd.
lemon-cutting n. the feat of cutting in two a suspended lemon with a sword when riding at full speed.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > equestrian sports except racing > [noun] > other competitions
ringa1513
goose-riding1785
tent-pegging1878
lemon-cutting1889
musical chairs1933
1889 Daily News 21 June 6/1 In lemon-cutting the most dexterous performers were [etc.].
lemon-drop n. a sugar-plum flavoured with lemon.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > drop, lozenge, or comfit
comfit1334
pastille1451
table1580
confect1587
violet tables1620
sugar-pluma1668
plum1694
nonpareil1697
rose drop1727
lemon-drop1807
drop1818
jujube1835
pear drop1852
pandrop1877
conversation lozenge1905
cushion1906
fruit drop1907
1807 M. E. Rundell New Syst. Domest. Cookery (ed. 2) viii. 203 (heading) Lemon drops.
1854 C. M. Yonge Heartsease II. xiv. 316 Here were some lemon-drops for papa.
1870 E. Eggleston Mr. Blake's Walking-stick vi. 41 He had inquired if they had any lemon-drops in their pockets.
1938 D. Runyon Furthermore x. 187 A young guy by the name of The Lemon Drop Kid, who is called The Lemon Drop Kid because he always has a little sack of lemon drops in the side pocket of his coat, and is always munching at same.
lemon-game n. U.S. slang a type of confidence trick (see quots.); also elliptical lemon.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > actions or types of play > confidence trick in pool
lemon-game1908
1908 J. M. Sullivan Criminal Slang 15 Lemon game, defrauding a sucker at a pool game.
1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 55 Lemon,..a confidence game in which skill at pool is the bait, though its successful negotiation is based upon the dishonesty or avarice of the victim.
1937 E. H. Sutherland Professional Thief iii. 68 The lemon is an agreement between the inside man, an expert pool player, and a prospect, by which the prospect will win bets on the pool games played by the expert. Through a supposed fluke the expert wins the game which the prospect had bet he would lose, and the prospect thereby loses his money.
lemon-grass n. a fragrant East Indian grass ( Andropogon schœnanthus) yielding the grass oil used in perfumery; also attributive.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > fragrant plants or plants used in perfumery > [noun] > lemon-grass
squinant1548
camel's-hay1597
camel's-meat1598
sweet rush1598
schoenanth1633
rusa1783
lemon-grass1837
the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [noun] > fragrant substance or perfume > plants and extracts used for
roseeOE
nardusOE
nardOE
lavendera1300
spikenardc1350
piste?1440
orris root1598
bainilla1678
amberseed1728
vanilla1728
ambrette1745
vanell1790
tonka bean1796
scent bean1822
muguet1830
lemon-grass1837
vanillea1845
sweet pea1890
snuff-bean1898
oak moss1921
tea olive1952
1837 J. F. Royle Ess. Antiq. Hindu Med. 82 Andropogon Schœnanthus or Lemon-grass.
1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon I. i. i. 25 These sunny expanses..are covered with tall lemon-grass.
1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 423 An odour somewhat analogous to that of lemon-grass oil.
lemon-house n. a building where lemons are stored.
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the world > food and drink > food > place for storing food > [noun] > for fruit
fruit-house1794
lemon-house1901
1901 Chambers's Jrnl. Nov. 719/2 On the very day of the picking they must be carried to the lemon-house, and great care must be taken that the fruit is not exposed to the sun or bruised in any way.
1916 D. H. Lawrence Twilight in Italy 85 We passed through, and stood at the foot of the lemon-house.
lemon-kali n. a mixture of tartaric acid and soda bicarbonate, which when dissolved form an effervescing drink.
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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Lemon-kali, a drink made from citric and tartaric acid.
lemon meringue n. (also lemon meringue pie) an open pie consisting of a pastry case with a lemon filling and a topping of meringue.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] > fruit pie
vaunt1508
warden-pie1579
apple pie1589
gooseberry-pie1747
plum pie1747
huckleberry pie1751
apple dowdy1823
cobbler1859
lemon pie1909
lemon meringue1914
1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn i. 13 Hey, Drübel, got any lemon merang? Bring me a hunk, will yuh?
1922 Hotel World 15 Apr. 15/1 Lemon meringue pie.
1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) ii. 126 There was roast chicken with stuffing, lemon meringue pie and chocolate cake.
1973 J. Wilson Truth or Dare vi. 75 It was lemon meringue pie for dinner.
lemon oil n. an essential oil obtained from lemons.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > other plant-derived oils
oil de baya1398
oil roseta1400
alkitranc1400
laurinec1400
oil of spicac1400
seed oil1400
rape oil1420
nut-oil?c1425
masticine?1440
oil de rose?1440
oil of myrtine?a1450
gingellya1544
rose oil1552
alchitrean1562
oil of spike1577
oil of ben1594
myrtle oil1601
sesamus1601
sampsuchine1616
oil of walnuts1622
rape1641
oil of rhodium1649
rapeseed oil1652
neroli1676
oil of mace1681
spirit of scurvy-grass1682
beech-oil1716
poppy oil1737
castor oil1746
oil of sassafras1753
orange-peel oil1757
wood-oil1759
bergamot1766
sunflower oil1768
Russia oil1773
oil castor1779
tung-yu1788
poppy-seed oil1799
cocoa butter1801
sassafras oil1801
phulwara1805
oil of wine1807
grass oil1827
oil of marjoram1829
cajuput oil1832
essence of mustarda1834
picamar1835
spurge oil1836
oenanthic ether1837
tea oil1837
capnomor1838
cinnamon-oil1838
oil of mustard1838
orange-flower oil1838
resinein1841
mustard oil1844
myrrhol1845
styrol1845
oenanthol1847
shea butter1847
wintergreen1847
gaultheria oil1848
ginger-grass oil.1849
nutmeg oil1849
pine oil1849
peppermint oil1850
cocoa fat1851
orange oil1853
neem oil1856
poonga oil1857
xanthoxylene1857
crab-oil1858
illupi oil1858
Shanghai oil1861
stand oil1862
mustard-seed oil1863
carap oilc1865
cocum butter or oilc1865
Kurung oil1866
muduga oil1866
pichurim oil1866
serpolet1866
sumbul oil1868
sesame oil1870
niger oil1872
summer yellow1872
olibene1873
patchouli oil1875
pilocarpene1876
styrolene1881
tung oil1881
becuiba tallow1884
soy oil1884
tea-seed oil1884
eucalyptus1885
sage oil1888
hop-oil1889
cotton-seed oil1891
lemon oil1896
palmarosa oil1897
illipe butter1904
hydnocarpus oil1905
tung1911
niger seed oil1917
sun oil1937
vanaspati1949
fennel oil-
1896 J. T. Law Grocer's Man. 408/2 The essence of lemon coming into commerce..is greatly made up of..the ethereal oil which is present in lemon oil.
1910 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 104/1 Sicily is the chief source of exports of lemon-oil, more generally termed ‘essence of lemon’.
1957 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 908/1 Among the important by-products resulting from the processing of lemons, after removal of the juice, are citric acid..lemon oil and pectin.
lemon-plant n. ( Aloysia citriodora) the so-called lemon-scented verbena.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > fragrant plants or plants used in perfumery > [noun] > lemon-scented verbena
lemon-plant1862
lemon-tree1879
1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands iv. xxi. 499 The Aloysia citriodora of botanists, the common lemon plant, formerly called a verbena.
lemon platt n. a flat sugar-stick, flavoured with lemon.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > stick or tube
wreath1562
rock1718
sugar stick1825
pipe1843
lemon platt1916
slim jim1916
seaside rock1963
1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist i. 1 The moocow came down the road where Betty Byrne lived: she sold lemon platt.
1965 Amer. Notes & Queries 3 117/2 ‘Lemon Platt’, commonly sold as ‘Yellow Man’ at fairs in the North of Ireland,..derives its name..from its flavor.
lemon-rob n. (see quot.).
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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Lemon-rob, the inspissated juice of limes or lemons, a powerful anti-scorbutic.
lemon-scented verbena n.
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1900 M. Thorn in W. D. Drury Bk. Gardening xi. 469 Lemon-scented Verbena should be represented in gardens where shrubs with fragrant leaves are cherished.
1969 D. Goold-Adams Cool Greenhouse Today xvii. 198 Lippia (Lemon-scented Verbena). Half-hardy deciduous shrub from Chile with insignificant flowers but grown in the greenhouse for the glorious scent of its crushed leaves.
lemon scurvy grass n. the Cochlearia officinalis (Mayne Expos. Lex. 1855).
lemon squash n. a drink made from the juice of a lemon, with soda-water, ice, and sometimes sugar; also a liquid preparation sold under this name for mixing with water.
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the world > food and drink > drink > fruit juice or squash > [noun] > lemon juice or squash
lemon-juice1617
lemon squash1876
squash1894
citron pressé1916
1876 World No. 115. 14 The orator sipped his accustomed glass of lemon-squash.
lemon-squeezer n. (a) an instrument for expressing the juice from a lemon; also figurative; (b) Australian and New Zealand colloquial, a hat with a peaked crown and broad flat brim worn by New Zealand troops.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > tools for preparing fruit or nuts
nutcracker1481
nut-crack1570
nutcrackers1600
crackera1640
crack-nut1656
orange-strainer1688
apple scoop1696
orange-peel cutter1757
apple corer1778
lemon-squeezer1781
corer1789
orange squeezer1815
seeder1865
sweat-box1870
reamer1894
stemmer1898
juicer1938
zester1963
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > with a brim > broad-brimmed > other
petasus1577
bongrace1585
sombrero1770
parachute1786
Pamela hat1802
Gainsborough1878
bloomer1883
cartwheel1884
picture hat1887
cowgirl hat1897
Stetsonc1900
shtreimel1902
Merry Widow1908
ten-gallon hat1928
lemon-squeezer1953
Smokey Bear1969
Akubra1973
1781 Salem Gaz. 3 July Isaac Greenwood..makes Flutes..Back-Gammon Boxes Men and Dies, Chess-Men, Billiard-Balls, Maces, Lemon Squeezers.
1856 ‘K. R. Ockside’ & ‘Q. K. P. Doesticks’ Hist. & Rec. Elephant Club 118 One..had been hit over the head with the lemon-squeezer.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Lemon-squeezer.
1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 110 Lemon Squeezers.
1887 Cent. Mag. Aug. 489/1 The ‘Chunkers’ were frequently of the ‘lemon-squeezer’ pattern.
1949 National Geographic Mag. Aug. 235 Knap~sack's a Nuisance in the ‘Lemon Squeezer’ [sc. a narrow defile].
1953 S. J. Baker Austral. Speaks vii. 177 A few other words of wartime vintage..lemon squeezer, the peaked hat worn by New Zealand troops (apparently originated by the troops themselves).
1957 T. S. Eliot On Poetry & Poets 113 It might be called the lemon-squeezer school of criticism.
1959 B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green i. 10 Julius Caesar, such a silly geezer, caught his head in a lemon squeezer.
1964 N.Z. News 24 Nov. 2/1 The ‘lemon squeezer’ was no longer suitable headgear for ceremonial rifle exercises and would never be worn by the New Zealand Army again, said the Chief of General Staff.
lemon-thyme n. a lemon-scented variety of thyme.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > fragrant plants or plants used in perfumery > [noun] > musk thyme
lemon-thyme1629
musk thyme1676
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > herb > [noun] > thyme > variety of
peterworta1500
lemon-thyme1629
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole cxxxi. 454 Lemon Tyme. The wilde Tyme that smelleth like unto a Pomecitron or lemon, hath many weake branches trayling on the ground.
1657 R. Verney in M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family Commonwealth (1894) xi. 409 Sweet Marjoram & Lemon Time.
1714 J. Petiver in Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 193 Its Leaves plain and small as Lemon Tyme.
1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. x. 220 Lemon Thyme.—Two or three tufts of this species of thyme, Thymus citriodorus, usually find a place in the herb compartment of the kitchen-garden.
1971 Country Life 20 May 1252/2 Lemon-thyme has a lovely little golden cultivar which should be in all gardens.
1974 M. Page & W. T. Stearn Culinary Herbs 44 Those who find the flavour of garden thyme too dominating may prefer the milder and fruity flavour of lemon thyme.
lemon-tree n. (a) = sense 2; (b) = lemon-plant n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant bearing citrus fruit > lemon trees
lemon-tree1574
lemon1615
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > fragrant plants or plants used in perfumery > [noun] > lemon-scented verbena
lemon-plant1862
lemon-tree1879
1574 J. Baret Aluearie L 445 A Limon tree, citrea.
1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 302 They went into an Orchard beyond..the trees being Orange and Lemond trees.
1879 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Lemon Tree, a frequent name for Lippia (Aloysia) citriodora Kth., in allusion to the scent of the leaves. The verbena.
lemon-verbena n. = lemon-plant n.
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1869 C. L. Brace New West iii. 37 Lemonverbenas..are small trees.
1952 L. Bush-Brown & J. Bush-Brown America's Garden Bk. (ed. 2) xxi. 723 Plants suitable for pot culture... Lemon Verbena.
1971 Country Life 20 May 1207/1 A huge lemon verbena (Lippia citriodora) is said to be pre-1903.
lemon-walnut n. ‘the butter-nut ( Juglans cinerea), so called on account of its fragrance’ ( Cent. Dict.).
lemon-weed n. = sea-mat n. at sea n. Compounds 6d.
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1883 Wood in Good Words Sept. 603/1 Very few persons, if they were shown a gigantic octopus, an oyster, and a piece of ‘sea-mat’, or ‘lemon-weed’, could believe that they belonged to the same class.
lemon-wood n. (a) a New Zealand tree, the Tarata; (b) a name for several tropical American trees or their light-coloured wood, esp. the Cuban Calycophyllum candidissimum.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > evergreens
pine1788
angophora1804
ohia1815
pate1832
pohutukawa1832
Moreton Bay chestnut1836
Olearia1839
horopito1847
ramarama1848
matipo1853
white pine1856
musk tree1866
manoao1867
patete1867
puka1867
rangiora1867
tawhiri1872
tarata1876
lemon-wood1879
Otago ivy-tree1883
horizontal1888
lehua1888
inanga1889
mountain pine1889
puka1889
Queensland kauri1889
sheep-bush1889
wilga1889
mutton-bird tree1891
tree-daisy1926
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > of South America or West Indies
sweetwood1607
mastic1657
acajou1666
bastard locust tree1670
bastard locust tree1670
alligator wood1696
muskwood1696
lancewood1697
rodwood1716
cog-wood1725
soapwood1733
down tree?1740
pigeon plum1743
break-axe tree1756
horse-wood1756
loblolly whitewood1756
Spanish elm1756
trumpet-tree1756
ahuehuete1778
ocote1787
locust tree1795
Madeira wood1796
peroba1813
roble1814
louro1816
cecropia1824
purple heart1825
wallaba1825
trumpet-wood1836
gumbo-limbo1837
poui1838
quebracho1839
snake-wood1843
yacca1843
horseflesh wood1851
necklace tree1858
Honduras rosewood1860
turanira1862
softwood1864
wattle-wood1864
balsa tree1866
primavera1871
rauli1874
lemon-wood1879
wheel-tree1882
Spanish stopper1883
gurgeon-stopper1884
pinkwood-tree1884
stopper1884
sloth-tree1885
imbaubaa1893
Spanish cedar1907
amarant1909
Parana pine1916
imbuya1919
mastic-bully1920
banak1921
timbo1924
becuiba1934
1879 J. B. Armstrong in Trans. N. Zealand Instit. XII. 329 The tarata or lemonwood, Pittosporum eugenioides, a most beautiful tree also used for hedges.
1924 S. J. Record & C. D. Mell Timbers Trop. Amer. 513 Aspidosperma tomentosum Mart... Lemon wood... Color mostly bright, clear canary-yellow.
1934 A. L. Howard Man. Timbers of World (rev. ed.) 148 Degame wood. Calycophyllum candidissimum... Lemon-wood.
1947 J. C. Rich Materials & Methods Sculpt. x. 290 Lemonwood, also referred to as Degame, is a yellowish or creamy-white hardwood that is sometimes used for carving. Cuba is the major source of this wood.
1969 T. H. Everett Living Trees of World 162/2 The lemonwood of New Zealand..has masses of honey-scented yellowish green flowers and leaves that emit a lemon-like odor when bruised.
1972 Handbk. Hardwoods (Building Res. Establishment) (ed. 2) 66 Degame. Calycophyllum candidissimum. Other name: lemonwood (United States).
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esp. a substandard or defective car.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > substandard or defective
lemon1931
padiddle1948
lemon1978
1978 J. Wambaugh Black Marble ix. 162 This lousy lemon we took in trade on a Buick.
1987 Times 5 May 10/4 Plagued by component failures, mainly in their electrics, Jaguars became the ‘lemons’ of luxury cars in the United States in the 1970s.
1993 Dr. Dobb's Jrnl. Jan. 121/1 Just as youth is wasted on the young, new-car smell is wasted on a pile of metal just out of the factory, that may or may not be a lemon and self-destruct in your driveway.
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lemon law n. U.S. colloquial a law designed to provide redress for buyers of faulty or substandard cars (cf. sense 1c above).
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society > law > types of laws > [noun] > commercial or revenue
sizea1300
assizea1330
indiction1586
poll bill1641
frumentarian law1652
statute of the staple1657
statute of frauds1678
Gin Act1730
Pot Act1733
Stamp Act1765
Stamp-Bill1765
corn law1766
Bumboat Act1796
Maine law1852
permissive bill1864
lemon law1981
1981 Washington Post 2 Mar. 25/4 The slick pamphlet touts the Lemon Law Litigation Conference, an unusual gathering sponsored by the Center for Auto Safety.
1983 N.Y. Times 21 June b1/6 Governor Kean today signed a ‘lemon law’ to protect buyers of defective new automobiles.
1990 Daily Tel. 26 Jan. 19/5 Automobile ‘lemon laws’ vary, but in most states a motorist whose car has spent as much time in the repair shop as on the road in its first year stands a reasonable chance of getting a new replacement.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
lemonn.2
/ˈlɛmən/, U.S. /ˈlɛmən/ Used attributively in lemon dab, lemon sole, names given in various parts of England to certain species of plaice or flounder.In London lemon sole is the fishmonger's name for a kind of plaice somewhat resembling the true sole. In Australia this name has been transferred, through association with lemon n.1, to a flatfish of a pale yellow colour, and in New Zealand it is applied to the turbot.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > plaice, flounder, or sole
sole1347
floundera1450
plaicec1450
tongue-fish1655
tonguea1825
lemon dab1835
lemon sole1890
1835 L. Jenyns Man. Brit. Vertebr. Animals 457 Platessa microcephala, Flem. (Lemon Dab.)
1876 Trans. N. Zealand Instit. VIII. 215 Ammotretis rostratus,..a fish not uncommon in the Dunedin market, where it goes by the name of ‘Lemon Sole’.
1880 E. P. Ramsay Food Fishes New S. Wales 26 Plagusia unicolor..is known under the name of the lemon sole; it is of a pale olive-yellow when alive.
1884 St. James's Gaz. 18 Jan. 6/1 The..lemon-dab or queen..belong to that strange family of fish.
1890 Daily News 8 Jan. 2/6 Prices... Soles, 1s to 1s 4d per lb..lemon soles, 6d per lb.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
lemonv.
/ˈlɛmən/, U.S. /ˈlɛmən/ transitive. To flavour with lemon.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > seasoning > season [verb (transitive)] > flavour in other ways
saffronc1386
milk?a1565
hop1572
juniperate1605
beginger1611
macea1634
caryophyllate1651
fruit1736
onion1755
mustard1851
clove1883
lemon1883
herb1922
sherry1970
1883 P. Robinson Sinners & Saints xxi. 264 [It] throws into an over-sweet landscape just that dash of sin and suffering that lemons it pleasantly to the taste.
Derivatives
ˈlemoned adj.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > seasoning > [adjective] > flavoured in other ways
aloed1628
caryophyllated1651
alliate1661
sweet and sour1723
nutmegged1743
lemoned1767
creamed1769
origanized1853
vinegared1861
chicoried1879
parsleyed1879
minted1881
saffroned1881
mocha1892
nutmeggy1928
herbed1941
vanillaed1962
1767 H. Glasse Art of Cookery (new ed.) App. 352 To make a lemoned honey comb.
1869 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Aug. 10 The Spaniards take strong cups of chocolate, followed by glasses of water, sugared and lemoned.
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