| 单词 | horologe of flora |
| 释义 | > as lemmashorologe of Flora b. transferred and figurative. Applied to the cock, chanticleer; and in other applications. horologe of Flora, Flora's horologe ( Horologium Floræ, Linnæus Philos. Bot. (1750) §335): see quot. 1789. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > signal marking the time > [noun] > cock crow > cock as timepiece horologec1381 the world > plants > by age or cycles > [noun] > time of opening or closing of petals or leaves vigil1783 horologe of Flora1789 c1381 G. Chaucer Parl. Foules 350 The kok, that orloge ys of thorpis lyte. 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid i. Prol. 346 Thocht venerable Chaucer, principall poet but peir, Hevinlie trumpat, horleige [1553 orlege] and reguleir. 1604 M. Drayton Moyses ii. 52 The Cocke the Country horologe that rings, The cheerefull warning to the Sunnes awake. 1659 T. Pecke Parnassi Puerperium 88 The Countrey Horologe, first claps his wings; Before he News of grateful Day-light brings. 1691 E. Taylor J. Behmen's Theosophick Philos. 396 This Soul, the Horologe of Nature. 1789 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. II 62 (note) Many other flowers close and open their petals at certain hours of the day; and thus constitute, what Linneus calls the Horologe, or Watch of Flora. 1798 C. Smith Young Philosopher IV. 59 (note) Notes on..the horologe of Flora, in the Oeconomy of Vegetation. 1832 R. Southey Ess. II. 23 The hand of the political horologe cannot go back. 1837 F. Palgrave Merchant & Friar (1844) iv. 157 Make your government horologe go right. 1845 H. W. Longfellow Old Clock on Stairs ix The horologe of Eternity Sayeth this. < as lemmas |
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