单词 | lucerne |
释义 | lucernen.1 ? Obsolete exc. Historical. A lamp, lantern. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp lightfatOE lampc1200 lucernec1450 pharos1759 lite1924 c1450 O lewd book 23 in W. W. Skeat Chaucerian & Other Pieces (1897) 360 Lucerne a-night with hevenly influence Illumined. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 83 Lucerne in derne for to discerne, Be glory and grace devyne. 1883 C. C. Perkins Hist. Handbk. Ital. Sculpt. iii. iv. 375 A multitude of wreaths, tablets, masks, festoons, lucernes, genii holding lyres [etc.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lucernelucernn.2 a. The leguminous plant Medicago sativa, resembling clover, cultivated for fodder; purple medick. native or paddy lucerne = Queensland hemp, Sida rhombifolia (Morris Austral Eng.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > plants used as fodder bullimong1313 podder1468 tare1482 greens1607 lucerne1652 esperate1659 esparcet1669 tare-thistle1753 buckwheat1776 mangel-wurzel1787 mangold1848 sacate1848 sacaton1865 mangel-wurzel potato1875 mutter1875 ramon1885 cattle-bush1889 manna1897 beech-wheat- the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fodder plants > [noun] > alfalfa or lucerne medick?1440 medicac1487 snail-trefoil1548 snail clover1597 Burgundy hay1600 lucerne1652 nonsuch1662 alfalfa1764 1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxvii. 185 Chap. xxvii Speaks of the usage of St. Foyne and La-lucern. 1659 A. Speed Adam out of Eden v. 38 Clovergrass..is a grass very hardy, not much inferior to Luceran. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 31 It is not so good as La Lucerne..only this will grow on drier and poorer Land than Lucern. 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xv. 92 La Luserne is that Famous Herba Medica so much Extoll'd by the Ancients. 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xv. 93 Luserne in Grass is much sweeter than St. Foin. 1762 Gentleman's Mag. June 262/1 One acre of Lucerne can maintain three or four horses. 1818 W. Cobbett Year's Resid. U.S.A. i. i. 16 Warm and fine. Grass pushes on. Saw some Lucern in a warm spot, 8 inches high. 1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 332 Lucern is much superior to clover for soiling milch cows. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 552 Lucern.—This kind of forage plant has never been successfully cultivated in Scotland, nor has it taken much hold in England. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country i. 3 All its growth unsheaved Of emerald luzern bursting into blue. 1883 H. W. V. Stuart Egypt 136 After the cotton is gathered we immediately sow lucerne. b. attributive, as lucerne field, lucerne grass, lucerne paddock, lucerne seed. ΚΠ 1724 Act 11 Geo. I c. 7 (Bk. Rates) Seed, vocat Lucerne Seed the C. wt. 0. 10. 0. 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xv. 92 Tho' one Luserne Root be much more Taper than another. 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xv. 94 Luserne Plants. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 318 Lucern Grass, Medicago. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 125 An old working bullock in a lucerne field. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 218 A lucerne paddock. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1c1450n.21652 |
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