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greenwood|ˈgriːnwʊd|
[See green a. 2.]
1. A wood or forest when in leaf. It is taken as the typical scene of outlaw life, hence to go to the greenwood: to become an outlaw.
13..K. Alis. 677 Now con Alisandre..In grene wode of huntyng. a1400Clanvowe Cuckoo & Night. 100, I herde..A Nightingale so lustily singe That with her clere vois she made ringe Through-out al the grene wode wyde. c1500Notbrowne Maid 89 in Hazl. E.P.P. II. 276, I muste too The grene wode goo Alone a bannysshed man. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. Ch. (1642) 385 Some who lived in the greene Woods, and haunted the wilde Forests. 1755Johnson, Greenwood, a wood considered as it appears in the Spring or Summer. It is sometimes used as one word. 1810Scott Lady of L. iv. xii, Merry it is in the good green⁓wood. 1828― F.M. Perth xxviii, Rock and greenwood rang to harp and pipes. 1855Kingsley Heroes, Theseus ii. 213 They hammered together till the greenwoods rang. 1884Ruskin Lect. at Oxf. in Pall Mall G. 10 Dec. 11/2 A bit of Alpine snow, of Greek sea, or of English greenwood.
b. attrib., as greenwood adventurer, greenwood bower, greenwood glen, greenwood life, † greenwood linde, greenwood path, greenwood shade, greenwood side, greenwood tree.
15..Adam Bel 404 in Ritson Anc. Pop. Poetry 20 Cloudesle walked a lytle besyde, And loked vnder the grenewood linde. c1510Lytell Geste R. Hode iii. (1847) I. 173 They..dyde them strayt to Robyn Hode Under the grene wode tre. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. v. 1. 1729 T. Cooke Tales 128 Him to the greenwood Shade they gently bore. 1808Scott Marm. ii. Introd., Foresters in green⁓wood trim. 1810― Lady of L. iv. xxiv, His coat was all of the greenwood hue. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1862) I. 69 The Robin Hood ballads..breathe the warm genial spirit of the old greenwood adventurers.
†2. = greenweed 1. Obs. (Perh. a misprint.)
1776Withering Brit. Plants 441 Greenwood, Genista. |