单词 | teil |
释义 | teiln. Now rare or Obsolete. a. The lime or linden tree, Tilia europæa. Usually teil-tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant bearing citrus fruit > lime trees linda700 bast treea1425 linnc1475 tilleul1530 pry1573 fir-beech1577 linden1577 teil1589 linden-tree1591 tillet1601 bass-wood1670 red lime1709 lime-tree1748 parakeet bur1866 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xvii. cxcii. lf. 238 b/2 Þe tre tilia..bene haunteþ þe floures þerof and gadreþ þerof swetnes of hony.] 1589 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Georgiks i. 7 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks The light wood of the Tilie tree is cut downe for a yoke. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 395 Some of them practise diuination with the leaues of the Teil-tree which they fold and vnfold in their hands. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 26 A faire meadow,..wherein is a faire Lynden or teyle tree. 1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 87 Like the shade of a Tile tree, very pleasant though the tree be unfruitfull. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1032 They live on softer leaves, especially on the Tiel-tree. 1694 J. Addison tr. Virgil Fourth Georgic iv. 233 From purple violets and the teile they [bees] bring Their gather'd sweets, and rifle all the spring. 1721 New Gen. Atlas 120 There are stately Walks of Tile-trees on its North Bank. 1837 C. A. Wheelwright tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 270 (note) Boards of the teil or linden. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Til-tree, Tilia europæa. b. In the Bibles of 1568 and 1611, used in one place to render Hebrew ēlāh (elsewhere rendered ‘oak’ and once ‘elm’). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > unidentified or variously identified > [noun] > mythical or biblical almug1539 teil1568 goose-tree1597 cerbas1605 heaven-tree1835 heaven-plant1865 1568 Bible (Bishops') Isa. vi. 13 As a Teyle tree [so 1611; L. terebinthus, Wyclif terebynt, Coverd. terebyntes, Cranm. terebintes, Geneva elme, Douay and R.V. (1885) terebinth] and the Oke in the fall of their leaues haue yet the sappe remayning in them. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Phil. iv. 10) It had..withered, as an Oak in winter..and as a Teyl tree whose sap is in the root. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < |
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