单词 | whin-bush |
释义 | whin-bushn. A furze-bush. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > gorse or furze gorsec725 furzec888 whinc1400 fur1440 quice tree1440 whin-bush1483 furzen bush1530 thorn-broom1578 thorny broom1597 fursell1639 dwarf furze1650 French furze1659 ulex1753 1483 Cath. Angl. 416/1 A Whyn buske..salivnca, saliuncula, paliurus. 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1728/1 He tost a faggot at his face..and set a wynbushe of thornes vnder his feete. 1644 Duke of Newcastle Let. 14 Mar. in C. H. Firth Life W. Cavendish Duke of Newcastle (1886) (modernized text) App. 352 Through some fields of furze and whin bushes. 1721 A. Ramsay Petit. Whin-bush Club 19 To come beneath your Whin-Bush Shade. 1881 J. Grant Cameronians iv Masses of whin-bush (or gorse as it is called in England). 1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke x. 83 The gentle murmur of the breeze amongst the whin-bushes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1483 |
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