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crow-toe
Also crow-toes; Sc. and north. dial. craw-tae(s, -tees.
A popular name of various plants: an early name of the wild hyacinth (Scilla nutans); also applied to Orchis mascula, Lotus corniculatus, and the various species of Buttercup. (Cf. crowfoot.)
1562Turner Herbal ii. 18 a, Hiacinthus is..common in Englande..and it is called Crowtowes, crowfote, and crow⁓tese. 1637Milton Lycidas 143 The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine. 1657W. Coles Adam in Eden cclxxviii. 45. 1783 Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morrell) 1, Crow toes, Hyacinthi flores. 1812J. Wilson Agric. Renfrewshire 156 (Jam.) Some of the prevailing weeds in meadows..are, crow-foot, or crow-toe, ranunculus acris, etc. 1864E. Capern Devon Provincialism, Crow-toe, Crowfoot..the..Buttercup. 1873Proc. Berw. Nat. Club VII. 37 A coarse dry herbage, composed of Carices, Crow-toes, &c.
2. = crowfoot 6.
1816Scott Antiq. iii, Three ancient calthrops, or crawtaes, which had been lately dug up..near Bannockburn. |