单词 | bastard branch |
释义 | > as lemmasbastard branch b. Designating a shoot or spray growing from a part of a plant where it is not wanted; chiefly in bastard branch and bastard slip.In later use figurative, esp. with reference to a person born out of wedlock or an illegitimate branch of a family; cf. sense A. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > [noun] > weed weedOE bastard slipa1398 infirmity1597 noxious weed1621 hogweed1655 runchie1715 rogue1727 weedling1820 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. clxxix. 1073 Vitulamen..is þat bastard plaunte oþer spray [1495 de Worde bastarde plante other braunche]..þat springeþ out of þe roote of þe vyne or elleswhere in þe vyne and nouȝt out of þe knottis. a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 100 (MED) Lest yvel eerbis growen þere, and bastard braunchis wiþouten bileve. c1525 T. More Wks. (1557) 60/2 Bastard slippes shal neuer take depe roote. 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. H2 This bastard graffe shall neuer come to growth. 1645 S. D'Ewes Primitive Pract. for preserving Truth 30 All ages have cause to admire the exemplary judgements of God powred out upon that bastard-slip, Stephen Gardner, Bishop of Winchester. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xxxiii. 409 From this root has sprung a bastard slip, known by the name of the game law. 1852 M. F. Tupper Proverb. Philos. 293 Grey-headed men, the bastard slips of science, Go for light to glow-worms. 1914 Trans. Bibliogr. Soc. 12 45 Book-plates have a purely superficial connection with books; their study is but a bastard branch of the subject. 2000 Burlington Mag. May 277/1 His family descended from a Turenne bastard branch recognised by testament in 1399. < as lemmas |
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