单词 | paliure |
释义 | † paliuren. Obsolete. A thorny shrub, (probably) Christ's thorn, Paliurus spina-christi. Cf. paliurus n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > other thorn-trees paliurec1384 paliurusa1398 sea-willow1548 Christ's thorn1553 buckler-thorn1562 garland-thorn1597 goat's thorn1597 Jews thorn1597 milk-vetch1597 sea-buckthorn1731 Spanish hedgehog thorn1760 sensitive briar1802 lily thorn1816 sallow thorn1847 cat-brier1875 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Micah vii. 4 He that is best in hem is as a palyure [L. paliurus], that is, a sharp bushe, or a thistil, or frijse; and he that is riȝtful, as a thorne of hegge. a1425 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) Micah vii. 4 Gloss. A paluyre is a tasil, ether a scharp buysch. 1875 R. D. Blackmore Alice Lorraine v. 16/2 A tidy hedge of paliure and aspalathus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1384 |
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