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▪ I. lupine, lupin, n.|ˈl(j)uːpɪn|
Also 5 lupyne.
[ad. L. lupīn-us, lupīn-um.]
1. Any plant of the genus Lupinus (family Leguminosæ); in the early quots. chiefly L. albus, cultivated in the warmer districts of Europe for the seed and for fodder. The species now common in flower-gardens are of American origin. The flowers, blue, rosy-purple, white and sometimes yellow, grow in clusters of long tapering spikes.
bastard lupine = lupinaster (Treas. Bot.). small lupine, Psoralea Lupinella (ibid.).
c1420Pallad. on Husb. i. 237 Lupyne and ficches slayn, and on their roote Vpdried, are as dongyng, londis boote. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 43 The leues of lupines turne with y⊇ son. 1578Lyte Dodoens iv. xxiii. 480 There be two sortes of Lupines, the white or garden Lupine, and the wild Lupine. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 111 Where..Stalks of Lupines grew (a stubborn Wood): Th' ensuing Season, in return, may bear The bearded product of the Golden Year. 1707–12Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 150 Lupines are an excellent Pulse, and require little care. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile xi. 290 Rows of blossoming lupins, purple and white. 1882Garden 11 Feb. 91/2 Poor sandy soil suits Lupines well.
2. pl. The seed of this plant.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xcv. (1495) 662 Some legumina ben bytter of themself as Lupines. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 88 Þese medicyns ben sumwhat more driere: yrios,..lupines, þe rotynes eiþer þe drie poudre of trees. c1550Lloyd Treas. Health (1585) B v, The Branne of Lupines or penny beane layd on the hearye place [etc.]. 1601Holland Pliny II. 143 There is not a thing more..light of digestion than white Lupines, if they be eaten dry. 1699Bentley Phal. xix. 530 As the Actors in Comedies paid all their Debts upon the Stage with Lupins, so a Sophist pays all his with Words. 1770Langhorne Plutarch (1879) II. 950/2 He is said to have lived on lupines. 1898F. M. Crawford Ave Roma Immort. I. 9 The old men..sunned themselves in the market-place, shelling and chewing lupins to pass the time, as the Romans have always done.
3. attrib.
1601Holland Pliny (1635) I. Table, Lupine meat medicinable. 1841Browning Pippa Passes ii. Wks. 1896 I. 210 Hellward bound..With food for both worlds..Lupine-seed and Hecate's supper.
▪ II. lupine, a.|ˈl(j)uːpaɪn|
[ad. L. lupīn-us, f. lupus wolf.]
Having the nature or qualities of a wolf.
1660Gauden Serm. at Funeral of Brownrig 236 That which in their Physiognomy is..lupine or leonine (for so we read some men had lionly looks). 1851Kingsley Yeast xiv, To send back the fugitive lamb into the jaws of the well-meaning, but still lupine wolf. 1883Emma Phipson Anim. Lore Shaks. Time 36 Ravages imagined to be committed by them [men and women] in their lupine shape. 1885Harper's Mag. Mar. 648/1 The lupine foster-mother of Romulus and Remus. |