| 单词 | french furze |
| 释义 | > as lemmasFrench furze French furze n. either of two species of furze, common furze, Ulex europaeus, and dwarf furze, U. gallii. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > gorse or furze gorsec725 furzec888 whinc1400 fur1440 quice tree1440 whin-bush1483 furzen bush1530 thorn-broom1578 thorny broom1597 fursell1639 dwarf furze1650 French furze1659 ulex1753 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 21 Great store of furze, of which the shrubby sort is called tame, the better growne, French.] 1659 A. Speed Adam out of Eden i. 9 French furze..will grow very spacious and to great flockt bodies in few years. 1750 P. Collinson Let. 22 Feb. in J. Bartram Corr. (1992) 307 Our Common Furze..is vulgarly Called French Furze. 1855 G. Emerson Farmer's & Planter's Encycl. Rural Affairs (new ed.) 513/2 In Devonshire the common furze, and in some other parts the dwarf furze, are frequently called French furze. 1916 A. H. Sanford Story Agric. in U.S. 86 Jefferson..sent to Mount Vernon..some French furze and saintfoin. 1997 J. Thirsk Alternative Agric. (2000) 279 English writers emphasized the value of French furze as fuel, but it was fed to cattle in France and deemed very wholesome. French furze a. The popular name of Ulex europæus, a spiny evergreen shrub with yellow flowers, growing abundantly on waste lands throughout Europe. Also named gorse, whin; common furze, great furze or French furze. †Sometimes, a bush or piece of this. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > gorse or furze gorsec725 furzec888 whinc1400 fur1440 quice tree1440 whin-bush1483 furzen bush1530 thorn-broom1578 thorny broom1597 fursell1639 dwarf furze1650 French furze1659 ulex1753 c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxiii Swa hwa swa wille sawan westmbære land atio ærest of þa þornas & þa fyrsas. c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 324 Ramnus, fyrs. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Micah vii. 4 A palyure, that is, a sharp bushe, or a thistil, or frijse [c1425 Egerton 617 & 618 firse]. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. v. 195 All þat herde..weschte þat hit weore I-wipet with a wesp of Firsen. 1436 Rolls of Parl. IV. 498 Pasture, Wode, Hetthe, Virses, and Gorste. 1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng vi. f. 6v All the wode, brome, gorse, fyrs, braken. 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 49v With whinnes, or with furzes, thy houell renew. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 180 Tooth'd briars, sharpe firzes, pricking gosse. a1626 N. Breton in Daffodils & Primroses 23/1 in Wks. (1879) I Forrestes full of furres and brakes. 1647 A. Cowley Discov. in Mistress ii The humble Furzes of the Plain. 1722 tr. Virgil Pastorals vii, in C. Sedley Wks. I. 296 May I to thee more bitter seem than Rue, More course than Fuz. 1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 42 Thick with entangling Grass, or prickly Furze. 1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 192 With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay. 1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram II. iv. ii. 222 A broad patch of green heath, covered with furze. 1877 R. H. Roberts Harry Holbrooke of Holbrooke Hall i. 8 The hounds are making the furze crack and shake in their eager efforts. < as lemmas |
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