| 单词 | oil of nenuphar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoil of nenuphar a. A water lily, esp. the white water lily, Nymphaea alba, or the yellow water lily, Nuphar luteum. Also (esp. in †oil of nenuphar, †syrup of nenuphar): the roots, leaves, flowers, or seeds of these plants, used in medicinal preparations (obsolete). Now literary. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > water-lilies edockec1000 water rose?a1300 mead-flower?a1350 water beanc1400 water coltsfoot14.. nenuphar?a1425 water lily?a1425 lotec1487 lotusc1487 nymphaea1543 water-can1622 can-dock1661 lotus flower1710 pond lily1748 Indian lotus1797 padma1799 Nuphar1822 beaver-root1832 splatterdock1832 frog-lily1845 brandy-bottle1846 Victoria1846 water nymph1848 lotus lily1857 cow-lily1862 pool lily1902 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 57v Þan forsoþ be þe forsaid þingez y-made with waters & oilez in which be decocte lefez of salow & broken barly, violettis, & nenufer. c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 102 (MED) And Also giffe hym þat conforteþ þe brayne, as castore, nucis moschati, roses, nenufare, mirtellez, & sumac. 1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. cjv The water of Nenufara floure..is half poyson or venym thrughe his great coldenes or stupefactyfe. 1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) iv. ii. f. 81 Sirope of violettes, nemiphar or the wine of sweet pomegarnates. 1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. i. viii. f. 5 Among compoundes these are in vse, butter, oile of roses, Violettes, Nenuphar, Popye. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 672 The white water Lillie or Nenuphar, hath great round leaues, in shape of a buckler. 1612 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise iii. 162 Of Flowers you haue Roses, Gilliflowers, Violets, Nenuphar, Lilly. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. v. i. vi. 479 To refrigerate the face, by washing it often with rose, violet, nenuphar, lettice, louage waters and the like. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Syrup Syrup of Nenuphar, or Water-Lilly. 1759 tr. M. Adanson Voy. Senegal 147 The leaves of the nenufar or water-lilly. a1763 C. Smart Jubilate Agno (fragment D) in Poet. Wks. (1980) I. 116 Let Conworth, house of Conworth rejoice with Nenuphar a kind of Water Lily. 1832 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 2) II. vi. 98 On these green isles of the Mississippi,..the pistia and nenuphar display their yellow flowers. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table x. 292 The stream with..clustering nenuphars Sprinkling its mirrored blue like golden-chaliced stars! 1874 A. O'Shaughnessy Music & Moonlight 14 Here and there great lakes of nenuphar And lustrous lotos glimmered. 1924 R. Campbell Flaming Terrapin iv. 59 Reflected stars That floated there like huge white nenuphars. 1969 V. Nabokov Ada i. xxxii. 199 She smelled of damp cotton, axillary tufts, and nenuphars, like mad Ophelia. 1989 R. Howard Lining Up iii. 62 She catches up a hank of molten hair and wrings it out as if it had become another green, wet, heavy nenuphar. < as lemmas |
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