mustard seedn.

Brit.

/ˈmʌstəd siːd/, U.S.

/ˈməstərd ˌsid/

Inflections: Plural unchanged, mustard seeds.

Forms: see mustard n. and seed n.; Scottish pre-1700 mustyr-seid.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mustard n., seed n.

Etymology: < mustard n. + seed n.

a. The seed of a mustard plant. Also figurative.

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the world > food and drink > food > additive > spice > [noun] > mustard seed

senvy-seed1298

mustard seed1352

senvyc1384

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > mustard plant > seed

mustard seed1352

1352 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 66 [50 quarters of] mustardsed.

1391 in L. T. Smith Exped. Prussia & Holy Land Earl Derby (1894) 22 (MED) Pro j bz. de mustardseed, iij s.

?c1450 in Anglia (1896) 18 318 (MED) Take a greyn of rose fyn And with a greyn of mustard-seed Lete sethyn.

a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 76 (MED) Vse in his metys mostard seed sothen.

c1535 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1901) I. Prol. 7 The parabile..of the tares, of the mustard seid, of the laven.

1598 Acct. Bk. W. Morton f. 11 For mostert seid and ane cwpe to greind it with all.

1660 Act 12 Chas. II c. 4 (Rates) Muster seed the c li...x s.

1700 W. Congreve Way of World iv. i. 61 Thou dodst bite my dear Mustard-seed.

1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 129 Another sort..produces the seeds which are commonly sold under the appellation of Durham mustard-seed.

1859 W. Darlington & G. Thurber Amer. Weeds & Useful Plants 47 The skin of the White Mustard seeds contains a large amount of mucilaginous matter.

1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 113/1 The mustard-seed imported from the East Indies is also largely composed of Brassica juncea.

1907 A. J. Walker & O. E. Mott tr. A. F. Holleman Text-bk. Org. Chem. (ed. 2) I. 323 The isothiocyanic esters are also called mustard-oils after allyl isothiocyanate, to which the odour and taste of mustard-seeds are due.

1952 D. Thomas Coll. Poems 170 In the mustardseed sun.

1994 Chile Pepper Dec. 31/1 Creole mustard. A robust, coarse brown mustard, often with whole mustard seeds.

b. Used allusively with reference to the mustard seed described in the New Testament (Matthew 13:31) (see quot. 1535); (hence) a small thing capable of vast development. Esp. in grain of mustard seed.The mustard seed (κόκκος σινάπεως) of the New Testament, spoken of as producing a tree, is probably the seed of the black mustard ( Brassica nigra) which in Israel grows to a great height. However, some commentators have identified it with the toothbrush tree, Salvadora persica.

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the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > source, seed, or germ

seedeOE

mustard seed?1523

seed corn1586

seedness1597

sperm1639

seminal1646

germ1823

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xii^v Kedlokes..hath small coddes & groweth lyke mustarde sede.

1535 M. Coverdale Matt. xiii The kyngdome of heauen is like vnto a grane of mustarde sede..Which is the leest amonge all sedes. But whan it is growne, it is the greatest amonge herbes, and is a tre.

1597 W. Perkins (title) The graine of musterd-seed, or, The least measure of grace that is or can be, effectuall to saluation.

a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) iii. iv. §2 Miraculous Faith..as much as a graine of Musterseed is enough to remove mountaines.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xlii. 270 The Multiplication of a grain of Mustard-seed.

1741 H. Fielding Shamela The Comprehensiveness of his Imagination must be truly prodigious! It has stretched out this diminutive mere Grain of Mustard seed (a poor Girl's little, etc) into a Resemblance of that Heaven, which the best of good Books has compared it to.

1869 C. Thirlwall Serm. in Rem. (1878) III. 390 When the grain of mustard seed has waxed a great tree.

1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. xix. 223 This fevered hope had grown up again like a grain of mustard-seed during the quiet which followed the universal belief that Troy was drowned.

1988 W. Green Getting Things Done (BNC) 9 The gospels commend faith the size of a grain of mustard seed. Ella Burrows' faith was giant size, and it was rewarded.

†2. Frequently with distinguishing word: = mustard n. 1b, 2a. Obsolete.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > mustard plant

senvya1300

mustard1340

mustard seed?1523

field senvy1597

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xii^v Kedlokes hath a lefe lyke rapes..& groweth in all maner corne & hath small coddes & groweth lyke mustarde sede.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. lv. 618 Sinapi syluestre. Wilde Mustarde seede.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. lv. 619 The first kind is called..in English, White Senuie, & white Mustarde sede.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §582 Some Herbs are but Annuall,..As Borrage,..Tobacco, Mustard-Seed, and all kindes of Corne.

1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis ii. iii. iii. 235 The lesser Champaine Treacle Mustard-Seed. Thlaspios Campestris.

3. U.S. With singular agreement: very fine shot used for shooting birds while causing little injury to the plumage.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooting equipment > [noun] > shot-gun or fowling-piece > shot

swan-shot1639

goose-shota1658

buck-shot1776

mustard seed1809

swan-drop1821

snipe-shot1822

buck1845

swan-post1846

loopers1886

1809 T. G. Fessenden Pills 8 Her single great gun loaded with mustard seed shot.

1844 Knickerbocker 23 440 None of the fine mustard-seed or robin, but the heavy duck-shot.

1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) i. 4 Use ‘mustard-seed’, or ‘dust-shot’, as it is variously called... A small bird..may be riddled with mustard-seed and yet be preservable.

1972 R. Akehurst World of Guns 49 The old method of sizing shot was in the following order, starting with the smallest: dust, mustard seed, cross, [etc.].

4. U.S. slang (offensive). A light-skinned person with one white and one black parent. Cf. high yellow n. and adj. at high adj. and n.² Compounds 4. rare.

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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > white and black > person

mulatto1591

mulat1678

mustee1699

quadroon1707

quintroon1769

terceroon1772

blue skin1788

metif1805

musteefinoa1818

Morisco1819

octoon1840

griff1850

octoroon1854

Conchy Joe1888

mustard seed1926

1926 C. Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 286 Mustard-seed: see high yellow (= mulatto).

Compounds

mustard-seed oil n. = mustard oil n. at mustard n. and adj. Compounds 2.

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1863 R. Fortune Visits Japan & China xvii. 285 That useful plant may be cultivated successfully..or manured with dried anchovies and mustard-seed oil.

1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 274 Brassica juncea... Herb cultivated abundantly in India for the seeds, which yield mustard-seed oil.

1963 Times 22 May 3/7 As well as these major fatty raw materials of margarine, a number of minor ones are used as well, such as beef tallow,..mustardseed oil, and shea butter.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mustard seed
释义	mustard seedn. Brit. /ˈmʌstəd siːd/, U.S. /ˈməstərd ˌsid/ Inflections: Plural unchanged, mustard seeds. Forms: see mustard n. and seed n.; Scottish pre-1700 mustyr-seid. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mustard n., seed n. Etymology: < mustard n. + seed n. 1. a. The seed of a mustard plant. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > spice > [noun] > mustard seed senvy-seed1298 mustard seed1352 senvyc1384 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > mustard plant > seed mustard seed1352 1352 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 66 [50 quarters of] mustardsed. 1391 in L. T. Smith Exped. Prussia & Holy Land Earl Derby (1894) 22 (MED) Pro j bz. de mustardseed, iij s. ?c1450 in Anglia (1896) 18 318 (MED) Take a greyn of rose fyn And with a greyn of mustard-seed Lete sethyn. a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 76 (MED) Vse in his metys mostard seed sothen. c1535 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1901) I. Prol. 7 The parabile..of the tares, of the mustard seid, of the laven. 1598 Acct. Bk. W. Morton f. 11 For mostert seid and ane cwpe to greind it with all. 1660 Act 12 Chas. II c. 4 (Rates) Muster seed the c li...x s. 1700 W. Congreve Way of World iv. i. 61 Thou dodst bite my dear Mustard-seed. 1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 129 Another sort..produces the seeds which are commonly sold under the appellation of Durham mustard-seed. 1859 W. Darlington & G. Thurber Amer. Weeds & Useful Plants 47 The skin of the White Mustard seeds contains a large amount of mucilaginous matter. 1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 113/1 The mustard-seed imported from the East Indies is also largely composed of Brassica juncea. 1907 A. J. Walker & O. E. Mott tr. A. F. Holleman Text-bk. Org. Chem. (ed. 2) I. 323 The isothiocyanic esters are also called mustard-oils after allyl isothiocyanate, to which the odour and taste of mustard-seeds are due. 1952 D. Thomas Coll. Poems 170 In the mustardseed sun. 1994 Chile Pepper Dec. 31/1 Creole mustard. A robust, coarse brown mustard, often with whole mustard seeds. b. Used allusively with reference to the mustard seed described in the New Testament (Matthew 13:31) (see quot. 1535); (hence) a small thing capable of vast development. Esp. in grain of mustard seed.The mustard seed (κόκκος σινάπεως) of the New Testament, spoken of as producing a tree, is probably the seed of the black mustard ( Brassica nigra) which in Israel grows to a great height. However, some commentators have identified it with the toothbrush tree, Salvadora persica. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > source, seed, or germ seedeOE mustard seed?1523 seed corn1586 seedness1597 sperm1639 seminal1646 germ1823 ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xii^v Kedlokes..hath small coddes & groweth lyke mustarde sede. 1535 M. Coverdale Matt. xiii The kyngdome of heauen is like vnto a grane of mustarde sede..Which is the leest amonge all sedes. But whan it is growne, it is the greatest amonge herbes, and is a tre. 1597 W. Perkins (title) The graine of musterd-seed, or, The least measure of grace that is or can be, effectuall to saluation. a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) iii. iv. §2 Miraculous Faith..as much as a graine of Musterseed is enough to remove mountaines. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xlii. 270 The Multiplication of a grain of Mustard-seed. 1741 H. Fielding Shamela The Comprehensiveness of his Imagination must be truly prodigious! It has stretched out this diminutive mere Grain of Mustard seed (a poor Girl's little, etc) into a Resemblance of that Heaven, which the best of good Books has compared it to. 1869 C. Thirlwall Serm. in Rem. (1878) III. 390 When the grain of mustard seed has waxed a great tree. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. xix. 223 This fevered hope had grown up again like a grain of mustard-seed during the quiet which followed the universal belief that Troy was drowned. 1988 W. Green Getting Things Done (BNC) 9 The gospels commend faith the size of a grain of mustard seed. Ella Burrows' faith was giant size, and it was rewarded. †2. Frequently with distinguishing word: = mustard n. 1b, 2a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > mustard plant senvya1300 mustard1340 mustard seed?1523 field senvy1597 ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xii^v Kedlokes hath a lefe lyke rapes..& groweth in all maner corne & hath small coddes & groweth lyke mustarde sede. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. lv. 618 Sinapi syluestre. Wilde Mustarde seede. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. lv. 619 The first kind is called..in English, White Senuie, & white Mustarde sede. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §582 Some Herbs are but Annuall,..As Borrage,..Tobacco, Mustard-Seed, and all kindes of Corne. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis ii. iii. iii. 235 The lesser Champaine Treacle Mustard-Seed. Thlaspios Campestris. 3. U.S. With singular agreement: very fine shot used for shooting birds while causing little injury to the plumage. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooting equipment > [noun] > shot-gun or fowling-piece > shot swan-shot1639 goose-shota1658 buck-shot1776 mustard seed1809 swan-drop1821 snipe-shot1822 buck1845 swan-post1846 loopers1886 1809 T. G. Fessenden Pills 8 Her single great gun loaded with mustard seed shot. 1844 Knickerbocker 23 440 None of the fine mustard-seed or robin, but the heavy duck-shot. 1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) i. 4 Use ‘mustard-seed’, or ‘dust-shot’, as it is variously called... A small bird..may be riddled with mustard-seed and yet be preservable. 1972 R. Akehurst World of Guns 49 The old method of sizing shot was in the following order, starting with the smallest: dust, mustard seed, cross, [etc.]. 4. U.S. slang (offensive). A light-skinned person with one white and one black parent. Cf. high yellow n. and adj. at high adj. and n.² Compounds 4. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > white and black > person mulatto1591 mulat1678 mustee1699 quadroon1707 quintroon1769 terceroon1772 blue skin1788 metif1805 musteefinoa1818 Morisco1819 octoon1840 griff1850 octoroon1854 Conchy Joe1888 mustard seed1926 1926 C. Van Vechten Nigger Heaven 286 Mustard-seed: see high yellow (= mulatto). Compounds mustard-seed oil n. = mustard oil n. at mustard n. and adj. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1863 R. Fortune Visits Japan & China xvii. 285 That useful plant may be cultivated successfully..or manured with dried anchovies and mustard-seed oil. 1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 274 Brassica juncea... Herb cultivated abundantly in India for the seeds, which yield mustard-seed oil. 1963 Times 22 May 3/7 As well as these major fatty raw materials of margarine, a number of minor ones are used as well, such as beef tallow,..mustardseed oil, and shea butter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1352
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