单词 | samphire |
释义 | samphiren. 1. a. The plant Crithmum maritimum (growing on rocks by the sea), the aromatic saline fleshy leaves of which are used in pickles. Also called rock samphire. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > herb > [noun] > other herbs maroilea1400 purslanea1400 centinode?a1425 rosemarya1425 sauce-alone1530 samphire1542 larix1548 ancoly1561 Crestmarine1565 tarragon1591 fish-basil1597 muscado1612 Jew's mallow1640 mekin1688 Tarentine1698 Shawnee salad1780 hemidesmus1809 roquette1900 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > culinary herbs > samphire samphire1542 Crestmarine1565 pierce-stone1600 fasse-phierre1701 sea fennel1712 Peter's cress1866 rock cress1866 1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca Crethmos, uel Cretamus, an herbe growyng on the sea rockes, whiche we call Sampere. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. xxi. 577 Sampiere hath fat, thicke, long smal leaves. 1590 R. Payne Briefe Descr. Ireland (1841) 7 The Phisitians there [i.e. in Ireland] holde, that Samphier is a present remedie against the stone. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xx. 15 Halfe way downe Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadfull trade. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 344 Stately cliffes bringing forth Sampier in great plenty. 1660 J. Childrey Britannia Baconica 10 In this shire grows greater store of Samphire and Sea-holly. a1691 R. Boyle Gen. Hist. Air (1692) 178 Sampier clothes the rock in abundance. 1702 J. Floyer in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 23 1167 Sampire is of an Acrid Aromatic Taste. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Crithmum;..Smaller Samphire, or Sea-Fennel. 1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 194 Samphire..almost the only wild plant..gathered for..luxury. 1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 176 The water has to be given a flavor by the squeezed berries of the Samphire. b. As a name for various other maritime plants, esp. the glasswort (Salicornia). For golden adj. and n., marsh n.1, prickly adj. samphire, see those words. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > names applied to various aquatic plants water yarrow1597 samphire1703 water plantain1756 marsh rosemary1777 star fruit1830 brakbush1844 1703 W. Dampier Voy. New Holland iii. 121 The Mould is Sand by the Sea-side, producing a large sort of Sampier, which bears a white Flower. 1713 J. Petiver Catal. Ray's Eng. Herbal Golden Samphire. 1713 J. Petiver Catal. Ray's Eng. Herbal Prickley Sampire. a1726 H. Barham Hortus Americanus (1794) 165 Sampier... There is another sort, which resembles the English kali, kelp, or glass-wort; another sort hath a thick juicy saltish leaf, in shape of purslane..; another sort hath a turnsole leaf. 1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 122 Articulatus, jointed, as in Samphire, Salicornia annua. 1847–54 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Samphire... In the United States, this name is applied to Salicornia herbacea, which is called glass-wort in England. 1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 787 Samphire: Borrichia arborescens. Jamaica Samphire: Batis maritima. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 7 Feb. 12/1 The glasswort is still called ‘samphire’ in Suffolk, and is gathered for purposes of pickling. 2. Cookery. The leaves of samphire, used chiefly as a pickle. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > relish > [noun] > pickles or chutney > types of pickles caper1481 samphire1624 mango1679 English capers1750 piccalilli1758 garlic-pickle1853 tsukemono1885 kimchi1888 maraschino cherry1900 dill pickle1906 dongchimi1962 1624 Boyle in Lismore Papers (1886) II. 138 A smale Barricke of Sampier. 1641 J. Murrell Cookerie (ed. 5) 68 To boyle Pigeons with Capers or Sampyre. 1661 W. Rabisha Whole Body Cookery 3 To pickle Sampier green. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 244 All Pickles, especially Samphire, which is stimulating. 1736 Compl. Family-piece i. ii. 118 Then put in the Meat, and..a few Capers and Samphire shred. 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xiv. 135 Take the Samphire that is green, lay it in a clean Pan. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. Π 1810 G. Crabbe Borough i. 5 Here Sampire-Banks and Salt-wort bound the Flood. 1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 380 Inula Crithmifolia. Samphire-leaved Inula. 1849 C. Sturt Narr. Exped. Central Austral. I. 367 A shallow salt lagoon also fringed round with samphire bushes. 1928 V. Woolf Orlando iv. 148 Closer and closer they drew, till the samphire gatherers, hanging half-way down the cliff, were plain to the naked eye. 1941 I. L. Idriess Great Boomerang ii. 10 Out among the samphire bushes lay huddled the little cloud of sheep. 1970 S. Trueman Intimate Hist. New Brunswick iii. 57 Come home with thoughts of periwinkles, dulse, maple cream, samphire greens. 1971 Country Life 28 Oct. 1132/3 The reference to samphire, which for most of us means King Lear, the blinded Gloster and the wretched samphire-gatherer on Dover cliff. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1542 |
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