单词 | eglantine |
释义 | eglantinen.1 1. More fully eglantine rose. The Sweet-briar; also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > brier or wild rose-bush > [noun] brierc1000 eglaterea1400 eglantinec1400 hound's thornc1420 dogberry1527 dog-briar1530 sweet-briar1538 brier-bush1562 dog bramble1567 canker1582 dog rose1597 canker rose1606 dog-thorn1694 cynorrhodon1706 bramble-rose1713 Scotch rose1731 white dog rose1770 brier-rose1810 bull-brier1860 missionary1881 burnet-rose1884 c1400 Mandeville's Trav. ii. 14 There he was crouned with Eglantier [v.r. Eglentine]. 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. N vj The eglentine is much like the common brere but the leues are swete and pleasant to smel to. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 252 Quite ouercanopi'd with..Eglantine . View more context for this quotation 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 62/2 The Eglantine Rose is the Sweet brier Rose. a1763 W. Shenstone Odes (1765) 122 Nor spare the sweet-leaft eglantine. 1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 61 Ere the hot sun count His dewy rosary on the eglantine. 1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. iv. 82 Hedges filled with honeysuckle and eglantine. 2. By Milton possibly taken for: The honeysuckle. ΚΠ 1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 32 Through the Sweet-Briar, or the Vine, Or the twisted Eglantine. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). eglantinen.2 (See quot. 1774.) ΚΠ 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 58 Eglantine, a stone of the hardness and grain of marble. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1c1400n.21774 |
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