单词 | walnut-tree |
释义 | walnut-treen. 1. a. The tree that bears walnuts. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [noun] > walnut > walnut-tree walnut-treea1400 juglandc1420 noker-tree1480 walnut1600 English walnut1756 common walnut1785 a1400 Nominale (Skeat) 657 Tremuler nuger et grosiler, Aspe walnotetre and theuthorne. 1483 Cath. Angl. 407/1 Walnott tree, auellanus. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Dec. 34 How haue I wearied with many a stroke, The stately Walnut tree, the while the rest Vnder the tree fell all for nuts at strife. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xiv. 392 The Wild Nutmeg-tree is as big as a Walnut-tree; but it does not spread so much. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 282 Under it is found a soft oozy earth, made up of vegetables; and at twenty-six feet depth, large trees entire, such as walnut-trees. 1890 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 26 115 At the last meeting of the Entomological Society, Mr. W. L. Distant exhibited..a branch of a walnut-tree on which was a mass of eggs laid by a butterfly belonging to the Lycænidæ. b. attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [adjective] > of or pert to particular nut-trees almondinea1400 walnut-tree1536 amygdaliceous1731 chincapin1785 amygdalaceous1852 1536 MS Rawl. D. 780 lf. 66 xxiiijti loodes of walnottry and hasshen tymbre. 1536 MS Rawl. D. 780 lf. 69 b Wallnottry Tymbre haysshen tymbre and ellym tymbre. 1705 London Gaz. No. 4097/4 10 Dozen of Walnut-Tree Planks. 1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) at Ulcer This is no more than a decoction of walnut tree leaves in water, with a little sugar. 1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Misc. Tracts 74 The Salmoni, or Salemoeli tree,..affords a most beautiful wood; it resembles walnut-tree wood in colour. 1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) 16 The pleasant walnut-tree walks..of his [Addison's] time. a. The wood of this tree. = walnut n.1 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > walnut walnuta1585 walnut-tree1587 nut-wood1701 1587 B.N.C. (Oxf.) Docum., Inventory A2. 31 A bedsteed of wallnuttrye, in Ladies' chamber. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 162 The seates of the Chauncell are of Walnut-tree curiously carved. 1756 C. Powys Passages from Diaries Mrs. Powys (1899) 8 The chimney-pieces, tables, &c. are of green marble from Sweden; all the doors solid walnut-tree, off the estate. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xi, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 251 A grey doublet and cloak..which Mrs. Wilson produced from a chest of walnut-tree. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [adjective] > other specific tree aldernOE ashena1400 terebinthenc1440 elmen1466 yewen1501 Brazil1577 walnut-tree1687 arbuteana1706 white pine1708 mahogany1730 teak-built1835 1687 London Gaz. No. 2231/4 A drawing Walnut-Tree Box, with two Drawers in it,..to put Mathematical Instruments in. 1702 London Gaz. No. 3806/8 A Large Parcel of French Walnutt-Tree Venears will be exposed to Sale..on Thursday. 1716 London Gaz. No. 5402/4 A Fowling-Piece with a Walnut-tree Stock. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Candle Roll them upon a Wallnut-tree Table. a1841 T. Hook Ned Musgrave i Sitting in a walnut-tree arm-chair. 1907 F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (ed. 2 reissued) I. 11 Chairs with walnut-tree frames. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1400 |
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