† chatonchattonn.1
Obsolete.
A catkin.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > inflorescence or collective flower > [noun] > of particular type, shape, or arrangement > catkin(s) or unisexual in florescence
chatc1400
tappette1561
catkin1578
chaton1578
kitekin1578
taglet1578
tag1597
cat's tail1611
nucament1633
tassel1646
catling1665
iulus1668
amentum1720
jul1725
ament1783
pussycat1850
lamb's tails1882
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. lvi. 730 [The walnut tree] bringeth foorth long tentes or yellowe ragged things..hanging vpon the tree, like smal Cattes tayles..longer then the Chattons of Whythie..After these tentes or Catkens, the leaues showe.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
chatonn.2
/ˈʃatɒ̃/ The head or broadest part of a finger-ring, in which a stone or intaglio is set or upon which a device is engraved.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > ring > [noun] > part of
collet1528
chaton1578
chaston1604
shank1688
1578 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 265 A chaton without a stane.
1578 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 267 A chatton without ane emerauld.
1880 C. T. Newton Ess. Art & Archæol. 269 The intaglio on the oval chaton of the other gold ring presents an equally strange subject.
1883 in A. H. Sayce Schliemann's Troja Pref. 20 The double-headed axe is..engraved on the famous chaton of the ring discovered by Dr. Schliemann at Mykênæ.
1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 169 Chaton, that part of a ring in which the stone is set.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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