单词 | lind |
释义 | † lindn. Obsolete. 1. The lime or linden ( Tilia europæa). In Middle English poetry often used for a tree of any kind, esp. in under (the) lind. ΘΚΠ 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 > lime trees linda700 bast treea1425 linnc1475 tilleul1530 pry1573 fir-beech1577 linden1577 teil1589 linden-tree1591 tillet1601 bass-wood1670 red lime1709 lime-tree1748 parakeet bur1866 α. β. c1510 Lytell Geste R. Hode cccxcviii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1888) III. v. 75 On euery syde a rose-garlonde They shot vnder the lyne. [Cf. ccclxxiv, vnder the lynde.]1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xxii. i. 342 We haue verie great plentie..of these [trees]..so are we not without the chesnut, the line [etc.].1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 541 As for the Line or Linden tree.16.. R. Hood & Guy of Gisbourne xxii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1888) III. v. 92 How these two yeomen together they mett, Vnder the leaues of lyne.a700 Epinal Gloss. 1004 Tilia, lind. 972 in Bond Facs. Charters Brit. Mus. (1877) iii. xxx Of steapan leahe in ða greatan lindan. a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1750 Þe wrenne sat in hore lynde. c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 1205 & to pleyn vnder þe linde, Þe hert to chacen and þe hinde. c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 513 Þe king..teld him vnder linde Þe best, hou it was boun And brouȝt. a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 44 In May hit murgeþ when hit dawes,..ant lef is lyght on lynde. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. i. 154 Was neuere leef vpon lynde liȝter ther-after. c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 1155 Be ay of chere as light as leef on linde. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 454 Lugge þi-selfe undyre lynde, as þe leefe thynkes. c1460 Play Sacram. 389 Iason as Ientylle as euer was the lynde. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 525 Syne vp and doun, als lycht as leif of lynd. 1546 T. Phaer Bk. Children (1553) R v a Ye may still a water, of the floures of lind, it is a tree called in latin tilia. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 538 Elms, and linds are not here so stately as further north. 2. A wood, a forest. ΚΠ a1400 Stockh. Med. MS. ii. 572 in Anglia XVIII. 321 In an harys skyn do it bynde, And lete it so lyn in feld or lynde. Compounds C1. General attributive, as lind-grove, lind-tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [adjective] > of citrus trees lindc1450 citron1627 citrous1658 linn1799 aurantiaceous1837 sour orange1920 c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 569/34 Calea, a lyndtre. 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 76/2 in Chron. I Euery euening hee would write twelue tables, such as they vsed to make of ye linde tree. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 10 All prisoners Sir In the Line-groue which weather-fends your Cell. View more context for this quotation 1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis viii. 166 On Phrygian hills there growes An Oke by a Line-tree. C2. lind-coal n. charcoal made of the wood of the lime. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > charcoal > [noun] coalOE charcoalc1400 lind-coal14.. black coal1525 small coal1591 beech-coal1607 sallow charcoal1615 brier-coal1626 wood-coal1653 withy-cole1657 chark1708 vegetable ethiops1752 biochar1995 14.. MS. Soc. Antiq. 101 lf. 76 (Halliw. at Lyndecole) Half an unce of lyndecole. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a700 |
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