| 单词 | midsummer men |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmidsummer men midsummer men n. (originally) a pair of orpine plants, symbolizing a young man and his sweetheart, which were set upright by girls on midsummer eve to prognosticate the course of their love; (in later use, also occasionally in singular as midsummer man) the plant orpine ( Hylotelephium telephium) itself; the related plant roseroot, Sedum rosea. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Crassulaceae (stonecrop and allies) > [noun] > stonecrop sengreenc1000 stonecropc1000 orpine?a1300 orval?a1300 mouse grassc1300 stonehorea1400 Crassulac1400 sedumc1440 thrift1538 prick-madam1542 mousetail1548 livelong1578 wall pepper1578 worm-grass1578 country pepper1597 jack of the buttery1597 pricket1597 stone-pepper1597 trick-madam1600 trip-madam1693 midsummer mena1697 rosewort1725 roseroot1731 live forever1760 ice plant1818 wall moss1855 Jacka1876 wall grass1882 thick-leaf1884 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > [noun] > by plants > plant so used midsummer mena1697 a1697 J. Aubrey Remaines Gentilisme & Judaisme (1881) 25 Also I remember, the mayds..would stick-up in some chinkes of the joists..Midsommer-men, wch are slips of Orpins. they placed them by Paires..one for such a man, the other for such a mayd his sweet-heart. c1797 H. More Tawney Rachel 7 She would never go to bed on Midsummer eve without sticking up in her room the well known plant called Midsummer-man, as the bending of the leaves to the right or to the left, would not fail to tell her whether Jacob..was true or false. 1865 G. Bentham Illustr. Handbk. Brit. Flora I. 294 Rhodiola rosea... Roseroot. Midsummer-men. 1879 Herefordshire Times 28 June 13 A piece of orpine..was set in clay upon pieces of slate..and placed in the house, being termed a ‘Midsummer man’. 1902 T. W. Sanders Encycl. Gardening (ed. 5) 235 Midsummer Men (Sedum telephium). 1973 in J. Simpson Folklore of Sussex x. 123 When we were children, we made Midsummer Men. 1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. 216 Rose Root. Midsummer Men... An interesting and attractive uncommon native wild flower found growing in rock crevices in mountains. < as lemmas |
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