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yew-tree|ˈjuːtriː|
= yew n. 1.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. clxi. (1495) V j/1 An Ewe tree..is a tree with venim & poyson. c1425Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 646/13 Hec taxus, hawtre [sic], newtre. c1440Promp. Parv. 507/2 V tree (K. uv tre), taxus. 1538Turner Libellus, Taxus, an Vhe tre. 1593in N. & Q. 1st Ser. (1852) VI. 64/1 Itm. for leadinge of earthe to y⊇ benche about the yewe tree,..ijs. iiijd. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 554 The rotten part of Eue-tree. 1612Webster White Devil i. ii. 261 Into a church-yard, where a goodly Eu tree Spred her large roote in ground. a1697Aubrey Surrey (1718) III. 46 In this Church-Yard is an Ew-Tree, ten Yards in Compass. 1750Gray Elegy iv, Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles v. xix, The yew-tree lent its shadow dark. 1864Tennyson En. Ard. 732 An ancient evergreen, A yewtree.
attrib. and Comb.1688Holme Armoury ii. 52/1 He beareth Argent, a Yew Tree Branch Fructed. 1845R. S. Surtees Hillingdon Hall x. 145 A massive yew-tree-lined walk. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt Introd. 4 Its untidy kitchen-garden and cone-shaped yew-tree arbour. 1889Science-Gossip XXV. 118/2 The poisonous nature of yew-tree leaves.
Hence yew-tree'd a., planted with yew-trees.
1872Mrs. A. Gatty Bk. Sun-dials Introd. p. xxii, The quaint yew-tree'd garden. |