| 单词 | quitch grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquitch grass 1. More fully quitch grass. Couch grass, Elymus repens. Cf. quick n.2 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > grasses perceived as weeds > [noun] > couch-grass quitcheOE quicka1400 quicken?c1425 couch-grass1578 twitch1588 twitch grass1588 dog grass1597 sea dog's grass1597 quick grass1617 couch1637 wheat-grass1668 scutch1686 quickenings1762 quicken grass1771 spear-grass1784 squitch1785 witchgrass1790 felt1794 dog-wheat1796 creeping wheat1819 quack1822 switch-grass1840 couch-wheat1884 eOE Épinal Gloss. (1974) 25 Gramen, quiquae [eOE Erfurt Gloss. quicae, eOE Corpus Gloss. quice]. OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) lxxix. 118 Genym þysse wyrte leaf þe man gramen & oðrum naman cwice nemneð. a1200 ( Laud Plant Gloss. 66 Virrata, quice. a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 73 Gramen est nomen cuiusdam herbe, tamen specialiter accipitur in medicina contra humores et uiscosos sicut in quartana, cuius radix usualiter ponitur in aximelle et multis aliis; gramen, anglice quich. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. ix All these maner of otes wear ye grounde very sore & maketh it to be quycche. 1587 L. Mascall First Bk. Cattell 74 [It] groweth in some Gardens like a quitch grasse. 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. xvii. 22 It [sc. Gramen caninum] is..named..in English, Couch grasse, Quitch grasse, and Dogs grasse. 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall iii. 33 Some long roots of Quich, or Dogs-grass wreathed about the bones. 1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 66 You avoid Quich-grass, and other Weeds. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xiii. 152 It is..generally execrated by husbandmen under the name of Couch or Quich, which is but a corruption of Quick. 1816 tr. F. Vanderstraeten Improved Agric. p. xv Destroying weeds, and particularly quitch or dog-grass. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 93 The vicious quitch Of blood and custom. 1874 Grand Traverse (Mich.) Herald 19 Feb. 6/1 The Quitch of English writers and Triticum repens of the botanist is a native of Europe. 1926 V. Sackville-West Land 74 With nettle in ditch, Spurry, pimpernel, quitch. c1941 W. L. Burlison et al. Fighting Illinois Weeds 28 Quack grass is also known as..quitch grass. 1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 May 622/2 Grasshoppers chirring in the quitch. < as lemmas |
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