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▪ I. lucerne1 ? Obs. exc. Antiq.|l(j)uːˈsɜːn|
[ad. L. lucerna, f. luc- ablaut-variant of lūc-, lūx light.]
A lamp, lantern.
a1500Envoy to Alison 23 (Skeat's Chaucer VII. 360) Lucerne a-night, with hevenly influence Illumined. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxxv. 3 Lucerne in derne, for to discerne Be glory and grace devyne. 1883C. C. Perkins Ital. Sculpture iii. iv. 375 A multitude of wreaths, tablets, masks, festoons, lucernes, genii holding lyres [etc.].
▪ II. lucerne2, lucern|l(j)uːˈsɜːn|
Also 7 luceran, 8–9 lusern(e, 9 luzern.
[a. F. luzerne (16th c.), in Cotgr. also luserne, ad. mod.Pr. luzerno of unascertained etym. Cf. F. lauserne, lauserte, ‘Shrub Trefoile, Milke Trefoile, Citisus Bush’ (Cotgr.). In Eng. agricultural books of 17th and 18th c. the word constantly occurs as la lucerne, with the Fr. article prefixed.]
The leguminous plant Medicago sativa, resembling clover, cultivated for fodder; purple medick.
native lucerne or paddy lucerne = Queensland hemp, Sida rhombifolia (Morris Austral Eng.).
1626A. Speed Adam out of E. v. (1659) 38 Clovergrass..is a grass very hardy, not much inferior to Luceran. 1649W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653) 186 Chap. xxvii Speaks of the usage of St. Foyne and La-lucern. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 31 It is not so good as La Lucerne..only this will grow on drier and poorer Land than Lucern. 1733Tull Horse-hoeing Husb. xv. (Dubl.) 200 La Luserne is that famous Herba Medica so much Extoll'd by the Ancients. Ibid. 201 Luserne in Grass is much sweeter than St. Foin. 1762Gentl. Mag. 262 One acre of Lucerne can maintain three or four horses. 1817–18Cobbett Resid. U.S. (1822) 5 Warm and fine. Grass pushes on. Saw some Luserne in a warm spot, 8 inches high. 1844Stephens Bk. Farm II. 552 Lucern.—This kind of forage plant has never been successfully cultivated in Scotland, nor has it taken much hold in England. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 25 Lucern is much superior to clover for soiling milch cows. 1873Browning Red Cott. Nt.-cap i. 25 All its growth unsheaved Of emerald luzern bursting into blue. 1883H. W. V. Stuart Egypt 136 After the cotton is gathered we immediately sow lucerne.
b. attrib., as lucerne field, lucerne grass, lucerne paddock, lucerne seed.
1724Act 11 Geo. I, c. 7 (Bk. Rates), Seed, vocat Lucerne Seed the C. wt. 0. 10. 0. 1733Tull Horse-hoeing Husb. xv. 201 Tho' one Luserne Root be much more taper than another. Ibid. 211 Luserne Plants. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 318 Lucern Grass, Medicago. 1890‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 125 An old working bullock in a lucerne field. Ibid. 218 A lucerne paddock. |