† myrtetumn.
Obsolete. rare.
A place devoted to the cultivation of species of myrtle; a plantation of European myrtles ( Myrtus communis).
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1688 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 576 We went to Kew, to Visite Sir Hen: Capels, whose Orangerie & Myrtetum, are most beautifull.
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- to scale a train or tram
- to scale in
- to scamble out
- to scamp off, over
- to scan out
- to scant out
- to scape or escape a scouring
- to scape scathely
- to scare a person blue
- to scare a person rigid
- to scare a person silly
- to scare a person stupid
- to scare out
- to scare out of one's senses
- to scare seven bells out of a person
- to scare someone's daylights out
- to scare the daylight out of
- to scare the daylights out of
- to scare the lights out of
- to scare the lights out of a person
- to scare the lights out of a thing
- to scare the liver and lights out of
- to scare the liver and lights out of a person
- to scare the liver and lights out of a thing