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osiern.adj. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin osera, auseria; French osier. Etymology: Originally < post-classical Latin osera (a1140, 1297 in British sources), osiera (1344 in a British source; compare also oseria (1296 in a British source; 1283 in a Frankish source in sense ‘willow-bed’)), variants of auseria (8th cent. in a Frankish source; also ausaria ) willow-bed, probably the reflex of earlier unattested *alisaria < alisa (perhaps < an unattested Frankish cognate of Middle Dutch els (Dutch els ), Middle Low German else , both in sense ‘alder’ < the same Germanic base as alder n.1, without the operation of Verner's Law; see also note below) + -aria (compare -ary suffix1); subsequently reinforced by Anglo-Norman osier, oser, ozier and Old French, Middle French osier willow (c1190; French osier), willow-branch (1380) < Old French osiere willow-bed (late 11th cent.) < post-classical Latin auseria (see above).Although post-classical Latin alisa , in sense ‘alder’, is indeed attested, it is attested only once in a Spanish source (see discussion at alder n.1); this isolated attestation of disputed origin can hardly represent a borrowing from Frankish, and cannot be used as evidence either for the borrowing of the assumed Frankish word into Frankish Latin or for the meaning of the word in Frankish Latin. The confusion between words for ‘alder’ and for ‘willow’ implied by the proposed etymology may perhaps have arisen from the fact that both trees commonly grow by water (see further W. von Wartburg in Revue de linguistique romane (1967) 31 32–4). The β. forms are apparently restricted to Nottinghamshire. A. n.the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > willow and allies > [noun] > osier or basket willow the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > willow and allies > [noun] > stump, bark, or shoot of the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants cultivated or valued for their many uses > [noun] > trees or shrubs having many uses > willow society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > willow > types of society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > willow > twig or rod of α. c1175 ( Aldhelm Glosses (Harl. 3013) in A. S. Napier (1900) 174/1 Uiminis : uirge, oser. 1392 in W. H. Stevenson (1882) I. 416 (MED) Ricardus Byron..plantans in aquam praedictam willowys et osiers crescentes et radicantes. c1400 (?a1300) (Laud) (1952) 6176 Hij ben made of hoysers [a1425 Linc. Inn oysers]..bounden al wiþ touȝ rynde. c1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville (Tiber.) 22019 (MED) The smale osyers..brak..The hopes about the vessel, Bycause they were not bounde wel. 1486 in W. H. Stevenson (1885) III. 241 For a lode of osyars. 1574 R. Scot (1578) 40 Euery yeare after you must cut them..as you see an Osiers head cut. 1642 T. Fuller iii. xix. 204 Who will make a staff of an osier? 1660 tr. H. Blum (new ed.) C b That Basket of Osiares. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu 25 Sept. (1965) I. 434 We begun to ascend Mount Cenis..carri'd in little seats of twisted Osiers fix'd upon Poles, on men's shoulders. 1750 C. Smith I. i. 11 The upper parts formed of osiers. 1786 P. M. Freneau 104 There cedars dark, the osier, and the pine..grew. 1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton I. i. i. 5 A brook, fringed with ozier and dwarf and fantastic pollards. 1886 J. Ruskin I. ix. 276 The poplars and osiers of the marshy level. 1948 A. Paton i. xiii. 90 Baskets stout and strong, in osiers of different colours. 1991 9 Dec. 16/2 On osiers, the thin, drooping yellow leaves look from a distance like hazel catkins. the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > cornus (dogwood and allies) > [noun] the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > willow and allies > [noun] > osier or basket willow the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants cultivated or valued for their many uses > [noun] > trees or shrubs having many uses > willow 1807 F. Pursh (1923) 48 Cornus several sorts, among which is the Osier rouge or Red Osier. 1830 J. C. Loudon 394 Salix..rubra, red Osier. 1845 A. Wood ii. 167 C. seriacea... Red Osier. 1857 H. D. Thoreau (1864) 174 There grew..Cornus stolonifera, or red osier. a1862 H. D. Thoreau (1864) iii. 314 Cornus stolonifera (red-osier dogwood), prevailing shrub on shore of West Branch. 1923 57 264 The eggs were at the base of a clump of red-osier dogwood. 1946 T. M. Stanwell-Fletcher 112 The moose browsed on young twigs of willow and red-osier dogwood. 1971 30 May 3/1 A red osier dogwood..shaded our tents. 1972 O. Fredrickson & B. East xx. 182 His [sc. a bear's] broad burly rump was vanishing in a thick tangle of red osier halfway down the slope. 1987 M. Kochanski (1988) vi. 173 Any shrub such as willow, alder, red osier dogwood or swamp birch..are suitable. B. adj. ( attributive). the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > [adjective] the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > willow and allies > [adjective] 1577 W. Harrison (1878) iii. i. ii. 11 When the Bore is..cut out, ech peece is wrapped vp..with bulrushes, ozier peeles, packethreed, or such like. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens v. lxiv. 629 The stalkes..wil twist and winde lyke Ozier withie. 1597 W. Shakespeare ii. ii. 7 We must vp fill this oasier Cage of ours, With balefull weeds. View more context for this quotation 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas (new ed.) ii. iv. 3 His Launce a Loom-beam, or a Mast (as big) Which yet he shaketh as an Osier twig. 1653 I. Walton xi. 211 If the Suns excessive heat Make our bodies swelter, To an Osier hedge we get For a friendly shelter. View more context for this quotation a1661 T. Fuller (1662) Notts. 317 Topical and Osier accidents, lyable to be bent on either side. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil 81 First an Osier Colender provide Of Twigs..(such toiling Peasants twine, When thro' streight Passages they strein their Wine). View more context for this quotation 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer II. ix. 507 These, three and three, with osier bands we ty'd. c1750 W. Shenstone viii. 18 On list'ning Cherwell's osier banks reclin'd. 1794 A. Radcliffe I. i. 7 With a small osier basket to receive plants. 1805 W. Scott ii. xi. 42 The ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined. 1882 Mar. 651/1 A troop of about twenty Indians, loaded with camote in osier crates, halted in a row, with their faces toward us. 1905 12 Aug. 5/1 She walked down to the water's edge, through the green osier spears. 1972 27 May 15/6 In the early days when my people arrived in Carden from Ireland they wove baskets out of osier withes which they called ‘Sally-gads’. 1983 3 Mar. 538 To the big, bell-shaped hazel kype, with a mouth diameter of 8ft, is joined the 4ft osier butt, a secondary basket of finer weave. Compounds C1. a. General attributive and objective. 1876 Nov. 8/2 The first purpose of the osier-planting is still met in the hold their roots have upon the dike. 1897 XLIX. 78/1 In 1794 he received from the Society of Arts their first premium of 20/. for osier-planting. the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > willow and allies > [noun] > osier or basket willow the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants cultivated or valued for their many uses > [noun] > trees or shrubs having many uses > willow 1500 in J. B. Paul (1900) II. 98 To the gardynar in Scone for osare treis to send to Strivelin vjs. 1960 K. Clark 111 The horse itself I find rather stodgy, and the osier tree looks like a contrivance. the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > willow and allies > [noun] > osier or basket willow the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants cultivated or valued for their many uses > [noun] > trees or shrubs having many uses > willow 1693 (Royal Soc.) 17 665 They [sc. leaves] decrease towards both extreams ending in a Point, being like those of the Osier Willow, only broader. 1857 A. Gray iv. 26 Osier-Willows are pollarded, or cut off, from time to time, by the cultivator. 1981 71 505/2 Even before seed and plants became difficult or impossible to obtain, a Syracuse, Nebraska, nursery began offering Osier willow as a more hardy substitute. society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > wood-based materials > [adjective] > made of material of interwoven branches 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer III. xiv. 533 We made the ozier-fringed bank our bed. 1750 M. Jones 97 So, in a grot, I've seen enthron'd Some river goddess, osier-crown'd, Pour all her copious urns around. 1777 T. Warton Compl. Cherwell in i All pensive from her osier-woven bow'r Cherwell arose. 1805 R. Southey (1838) xv. 114 What have we here? Quoth Madoc then to one who stood beside The threshold of his osier-woven hut. 1871 Mar. 584/2 Tilly had placed himself at a bend of the river, in the midst of a semicircle formed by its channel, and protected in front by steep declivities and an osier-covered swamp. 1891 W. B. Yeats 122 The osier-covered Chiswick eyot. 1903 at Osier Osier-bordered. C2. 1766 The osier neights in the river Avon. the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > land suitable for lumbering > place where osiers grown 1607 J. Norden v. 205 I have planted an Ozier hope (for so they call it in Essex, and in some places an Ozier bed) in a surrounded ground, fit before for no vse, for the too much moisture and ouerflowing of it. 1767 G. White Let. 4 Nov. in (1789) 35 They roosted every night in the osier-beds. 1882 R. Jefferies I. iii. 41 There was a ‘Yowp!’ and Pan, the spaniel, suddenly appeared out of the flags by the osier-bed. 1990 W. P. Roe 42 The great area of land south of Lord Burlington Lane, down to the river bank, was meadowland with osier beds at the water front. 1569 in F. G. Emmison (1994) (modernized text) IX. 175 My osier ground called Bilden Mead Osiers, and the residue of my lands unbequeathed. 1662 J. A. Comenius xiv. 26/1 A grove of okes, a grove of pines, a grove of birches, a grove of willows (an osier-ground). 1707 J. Mortimer (1708) 364 It is also good..for several uses of the Turner,..which makes the Ozier Ground of very great Value,..many Ozier Grounds being let for ten Pounds per Acre. 1796 W. H. Marshall I. 187 In Gloucerstershire, where Ozier grounds abound,..the grounds are let, under lease, to basket makers. 1852 24 July 469/1 I remembered the verses in Virgil where Galatea hides herself in the osier-ground, in order to be followed and caught there. 1919 Board Agric. & Fisheries: Wages & Conditions of Employm. in Agric. II. xliii. 390/2 in (Cmd. 25) IX. 207 There is a great scarcity of labour in the osier grounds, and the work is now done chiefly by women. 2001 (Electronic text) Nov. Later the mill buildings expanded towards Deptford Bridge and also covered the former osier ground on the east side (the Skillion site). the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > land suitable for lumbering > place where osiers grown 1660 J. Ray 146 All these sorts of Willows are to be found either planted by water-courses, or in the Osiar-holts by the river Cams side. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau xxix. 455 Several species are commonly cultivated in Osier-holts. 1816 in 2nd Ser. IV. 274 Before the ice is yet broken up, the swan finds an open resting place among the osier holts. 1967 M. Mead 10 Will you remember me..When you see no more..The humped bridge, the stream through the osier-holt? the world > the earth > land > land mass > island > [noun] > small > in river or lake 1744 J. Thomson Spring in (new ed.) 34 The stately-sailing Swan..Bears forward fierce, and guards his Osier Isle. 1862 G. Meredith (ad fin.) We saw the swallows gathering in the sky, And in the osier-isle we heard their noise. 1896 May 43/1 Even the silver winding old Seine seems loath to find the road thither, so pleasant is this dallying among green osier isles and banks of flowering iris. the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [adjective] > smelling of specific things 1881 D. G. Rossetti xii An osier-odoured stream. 1872 185/1 Osier-peelers. 1890 Osier-peeler, a machine, consisting of a pair of rollers, plain, serrated, elastic, or reciprocating, for stripping the bark from the willow wands used in basket-making. 1855 G. Emerson (new ed.) 867/1 These holts or osier plantations must be fenced round, either with dikes, which are most common, or with hedges. 1897 LII. 145/1 He contributed to the London Society of Arts an account of the osier plantations upon his farm at Captainhead. 1540 in G. O. Rickwood (1948) 11 Le osyarplott prope fflatford mill. society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > wood-based materials > [adjective] > made of material of interwoven branches 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais xlv. 365 An Osier Watled Wicker-Bottle. Derivatives 1719 D. Defoe 190 I stuck all the Ground..with Stakes or Sticks of the Osier like Wood. 1864 J. A. Grant 78 They make their own baskets of osier-like twigs. 1903 at Osier Osier-like, pliable, pliant. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  n.adj.c1175 |
