scimitarn.

Brit.

/ˈsɪmᵻtə/, U.S.

/ˈsɪmədər/,

/ˈsɪməˌtɑr/

Forms:

α. 1500s sumyter, 1500s symitare, 1500s–1600s semitar, 1500s–1600s semiter, 1500s–1600s semitor, 1600s semyter, 1600s symeter, 1700s symiter, 1700s– simitar, 1900s– simetar.

β. 1500s cimitarie, 1500s cimiteries (plural), 1500s semeterrie, 1500s semiteries (plural), 1500s semitorie, 1500s shimitaries (plural), 1500s–1600s cemitaries (plural), 1500s–1600s cimitary, 1500s–1600s scimitarie, 1500s–1600s semitarie, 1600s cimitery, 1600s semitory.

γ. 1500s–1800s scimiter, 1500s– scimitar, 1600s scemiter, 1600s scindifer, 1600s skimiter, 1600s–1800s scimetar, 1600s–1800s scimeter, 1600s–1800s scymetar, 1600s–1800s scymeter, 1600s–1800s scymitar, 1600s–1800s scymiter.

δ. 1500s cemitare, 1500s cemiterre, 1500s cimyter, 1500s cymetere, 1500s–1600s cemiter, 1500s–1600s cimiterre, 1500s–1600s cymeter, 1500s–1600s cymetter, 1500s–1600s cymiter, 1500s–1800s cimiter, 1600s cemeter, 1600s cemitar, 1600s cymeterre, 1600s cymetre, 1600s cymitar, 1600s–1800s cimetar, 1600s–1800s cimeter, 1900s– cimitar.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Italian. Etymons: French cimeterre; Italian scimitarra.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French cimeterre, simeterre, scimeterre, symetere, semeterre, saimetaire, etc. (c1450; French cimeterre ), and its etymon (ii) Italian scimitarra, †simitara, †semitara, †samitara, etc. (a1405), probably ultimately < Persian šamšīr , apparently literally ‘lion's claw’ (already in Middle Persian; > Hellenistic Greek σαμψήρα , a kind of sword of state; compare shamsheer n.), perhaps via an unattested Turkish intermediary. Compare Catalan simitarra (1481), Spanish cimitarra (mid 15th cent as semitarra), Portuguese cimitarra, †semitarra, etc. (1450 as çamitarra). Compare also post-classical Latin cymitharra ( C. Richer De Rebus Turcarum (1540) 60).The origin of the t in the forms found in European languages is uncertain; it may result from dissimilation.

a. A short single-edged sword with a curved blade that typically broadens before the point, used chiefly in Turkey and the Middle East.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > sword > [noun] > scimitar

scimitar1530

shamsheer1634

Turk1638

badelaire1693

ataghan1813

yataghan1819

α.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 278/2 Sumyter a fauchon, sumiterre.

?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda sig. B1^v With this Semitor, [I]..Endured some three or foure howers combat.

1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iv. ii. 90 He dies vpon my Semitars sharpe point.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 53 An vnexpected Semiter..cut off his head.

1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura sig. b5 Damascus Symeters.

1690 tr. U. Chevreau Great Scanderberg 78 His Semitar had cleaved so fast to his hand in the heat of the Fight, that it could not be pluck'd off.

1737 S.-Carolina Gaz. 30 July 3/2 Just imported in the Ship Princess Caroline..3 fourth 7 eighth and yard wide Garlix..Symiters, gilt belts, [etc.].

1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 586/2 The heathen Mahomedans imprint lessons from the Alcoran on the blades of their simitars.

1895 Argosy Nov. 145/1 There is a simitar at his side and a golden tipped wand in his hand.

1906 Pearson's Mag. Dec. 629/2 The curved swords of the East; I am not sure whether I should call them simetars or yataghans.

2008 I. B. McCabe Orientalism in Early Mod. France ix. 247 The turban eclipsed the crescent and the simitar in importance in European iconography.

β. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. vj^v Appareled after Turkey fashion..girded with two swordes, called Cimiteries.1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden Ep. Ded. sig. B^v A trenchant Turkish semitorie.1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xxvii. 403 By one onely blow of a Cimitary or broade Persian Sword.1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. 1 Semitarie, a crooked Sword or Faulchion.1640 F. Knight Relation Seaven Yeares Slaverie 36 120 Oddabasshes followes them.., (60) of these carrying naked Cimitaries, up right against their breasts.γ. 1562 J. Shute tr. in Two Comm. Turcks ii. f. 43 The sworde that Scanderbeg strake the beste with was a Scimitar bending lyke vnto a falchion.1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iv. vii. 213 If they haue a good skimiter, [they] had rather haue a blow on their arme, then their weapon hurt.a1668 W. Davenant Man's the Master (1669) iv. 57 Suppose that with a Syrian Scemiter,..I were minc'd into a Py.1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 82. ⁋10 A Scymitar once wielded by a soldier.1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall VI. lxvii. 441 In the hands of the Turks, the scymetar was the only instrument of conversion.1814 Ld. Byron Corsair iii. viii. 79 Therefore came I..To smite the smiter with the scimitar.1832 W. Irving Alhambra II. 64 His scymetar and dagger were of the workmanship of Fez.1875 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 3) vi. 310 The Scythians worshipped an iron scimetar as a symbol of the war-god.1936 Stage June 81/1 On the back wall is a painting of a ram's head with crossed scimitars below it.1961 S. J. Perelman Rising Gorge 112 Nobody..can resist the appeal of a man flourishing a scimitar.2002 R. Cohen By Sword v. xvii. 392 The scimitar, with its keen arc-shaped edge.δ. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 756 He..ranne sodainly to him with a cimiter drawen in his hand.1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. v. sig. P8 Vppon her thigh her Cemitare was tide. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 28 The Patrone..drawing a Turkish Cymiter, beginneth to lay about him.1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxxiv. 266 They worshipped their tutelar deity under the symbol of an iron cimeter.1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Leila i. ii. 8 The curving cimiter.1886 Harper's Mag. Feb. 467/2 Shemr raised his glittering cimeter.1922 Nassau Literary Mag. Dec. 135 I keep a wooden paper knife.., its blade curved in the shape of a cimitar.2011 M. Moncur Daughter of Helaman ix. 82 We were working on skills with the cimeter.

b. figurative. Something likened to a scimitar, esp. in being curved or piercing.

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a1687 C. Cotton Poems (1689) 650 And Pendant by their brawny Thighs, Hang Cimetars of burnisht Ice.

1825 W. Scott Talisman iii, in Tales Crusaders III. 64 To raise up the scymitar of resistance.

1922 M. S. Leitch Waggon & Star 83 Sudden light..Stabbing your brain with its keen scimitar.

1991 J. Wolf Daughter of Red Deer i. ii. 21 The stars overhead were brilliant, undimmed by the pale scimitar of the new moon.

2. More fully scimitar pea. Any of several varieties of pea having a distinctive long slender curving pod. Also with distinguishing word. Now rare.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > other types of pea or pea-plant

rouncival1570

garden pea1573

field pease1597

vale-grey1615

rose pea1629

hotspur1663

seven-year pea1672

rathe-ripe1677

huff-codc1680

pigeon pea1683

hog-pease1686

shrub pea1691

field pea1707

pea1707

crown pea1726

maple rouncival1731

marrowfat1731

moratto1731

pig pea1731

sickle-pea1731

hog pea1732

maple pea1732

marrow pea1733

black eye?1740

egg-pea1744

magotty bay bean1789

Prussian1804

maple grey1805

partridge pea1812

Prussian blue1822

scimitar1834

marrow1855

fill-basket1881

string-pea1891

mattar1908

vining pea1959

1834 S. Maine Catal. Agric. & Hort. Seeds 3 (table) Blue Scimitar.

1849 Midland Florist 3 97 For general purposes we would strongly recommend the old Scimitar, as a dwarf good-cropping variety.

1868 C. Darwin Variation Animals & Plants I. ix. 328 In the Queen of the Dwarfs and in Scimitar peas the pod is almost elliptic in shape.

1872 Jrnl. Hort., Cottage Gardener, & Country Gentleman 21 Nov. 402/1 The Scimitar is a strong and sturdy grower.., generally with a single, but sometimes a with a branching stem.

1928 U. P. Hedrick et al. Veg. N. Y.: Peas iii. 42/2 It is probably that Giant White Scimitar is Vilmorin's Long-podded Improved Scimitar.

†3. The razor shell Ensis (formerly Solon) ensis, of north-western Europe; = scimitar razor-shell n. at Compounds 2. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Solenidae

razorc1311

spout1525

spout-fish1594

razor-fish1602

sheath-fish1602

hagfish1611

pitot1611

solen1661

sheath shell1712

sheatha1717

razor shell1752

knife-handle1755

sea-pencil1755

razor-shell clam1792

long clam1811

scabbard razor-shell1813

scimitar razor-shell1819

spout shell1848

scimitar1855

razor clam1860

1815 E. J. Burrow Elements Conchol. 195 (table) Scymetar S[olen or Sheath Shell].]

1855 Eclectic Mag. Feb. 210/1 What are the delicate green-gray scimitars? What are the tapering brown spires?

1859 C. Kingsley Glaucus (ed. 4) 71 The grey scimitars are Solens.

Compounds

C1. Parasynthetic, as scimitar-billed, scimitar-shaped, etc.See also scimitar-horned adj.

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1765 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 2) Gloss. 449 Acinaciforme, Faulchion or Scymitar-shaped.

1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. II. xxix. 267 Knotted, scimitar-shaped horns.

1972 Y. Lovelock Veg. Bk. i. 55 The scimitar-podded kidney bean..grows wild in tropical America and is also cultivated.

1986 L. E. Likoff Encycl. Birds I. 532 The scimitar-billed wood-hoopoe (Rhinopomastus cyanomelas) shares much of its crested cousin's African range.

1996 Sunday Tel. 13 Oct. 2/5 Not in Blackpool, where hair is razored to the scalp and scimitar-bladed sideboards slice down below the cheekbone.

2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures I. 252/1 It more likely represents a Scimitar toothed cat (Homotherium latidens), a Pleistocene sabretooth.

2007 L. M. Chiappe Glorified Dinosaurs i. 26/1 Modern birds have a scimitar-shaped scapula.

C2.

scimitar-babbler n. any of various Asian babblers of the genus Pomatorhinus and related genera, distinguished by a long curved bill.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Timaliinae > other types of

babbler1832

scimitar-billed babbler1854

scimitar-babbler1863

scimitar-bill1872

rat-bird1883

hill-wren1885

1863 T. C. Jerdon Birds India II. 31 (heading) The Southern Scimitar-babbler.

1928 H. Whistler Pop. Handbk. Indian Birds 38 This Scimitar-Babbler is a gregarious species going about in small parties.

2005 Auk 122 1064 On 6 February 2004, we captured two scimitar-babblers that appeared to be representatives of the genus Jabouilleia.

scimitar-bill n. (a) = scimitar-babbler n. (now rare); (b) each of three East African birds constituting the genus Rhinopomastus, having a long slender downcurved bill and mainly black plumage with a purple gloss. Rhinopomastus species are usually placed with wood hoopoes in the family Phoeniculidae, but are now sometimes given their own family, Rhinopomastidae.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Timaliinae > other types of

babbler1832

scimitar-billed babbler1854

scimitar-babbler1863

scimitar-bill1872

rat-bird1883

hill-wren1885

1872 Proc. Zool. Soc. 448 Like its congeners, however, this Scimitar-bill is essentially a hill bird.

1905 Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 3 335 Rhinopomastus cyanomelas (Vieill.), Scimitar-bill.

1935 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1934 86 188 Pomatorhinus hypoleucos tickelli. Tickell's Scimitar-Bill. Pomatorhinus tickelli Blyth... Apparently not a common bird in Northern Siam.

1963 J. G. Williams Field Guide Birds E. & Central Afr. 152 Abyssinian Scimitar-bill Rhinopomastus minor... This is the smallest of the Wood Hoopoes.

2006 E. M. McCarthy Handbk. Avian Hybrids of World 116/1 Scimitar-bills. Family Rhinopomastidae. Rhinopomastus aterrimus [Black Scimitar-bill] × Rhinopomastus cyanomelas [Common Scimitar-bill].

scimitar-billed babbler n. now rare = scimitar-babbler n.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Timaliinae > other types of

babbler1832

scimitar-billed babbler1854

scimitar-babbler1863

scimitar-bill1872

rat-bird1883

hill-wren1885

1854 T. Horsfield & F. Moore Catal. Birds Mus. E. India Co. I. 238 Xiphorhamphus superciliaris, Blyth... Scimitar-billed Babbler, Jerd. A. Darjeeling. From Pearson's Collection.

1919 Jrnl. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 26 iii. 771 The Rusty-cheeked Scimitar billed Babbler—Pomatorhinus erythrogenys erythrogenys, Vig.

1933 Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1932 326 The vernacular name of Pomatorhinus melanurus Blyth is the scimitar-billed babbler, derived from its long curved bill.

scimitar oryx n. = scimitar-horned oryx n. at scimitar-horned adj.

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1903 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1 300 A[ntilope] dammah was erroneously identified by Rüppell..with the Beisa, but by its locality..is clearly shown to be the Scimitar Oryx.

1974 Arctic Anthropol. 11 238 Scimitar oryx are browsers and grazers, preferring the grassy, low-brush plains and open savannah zones.

2008 Africa (UNEP) 26/1 The scimitar oryx, or scimitar-horned oryx is a species of oryx which once inhabited the whole of North Africa... There are conflicting reports as to whether it is extinct in the wild.

scimitar pod n. now rare a tropical climbing plant, Entada gigas (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)), with long, woody, scimitar-shaped seed pods containing heart-shaped seeds; also called sword bean.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants, nuts, seeds, or fruits used as beads or vessels > [noun] > cacoon plant or bean

sea-bean1696

cacoon1854

segra1864

sequa1866

scimitar pod1871

Queensland bean1889

1871 J. Smith Domest. Bot. 432 Scimitar Pods (Entada scandens)... Its large hard-wooded flat pods..resemble a sword or scimitar.

1884 St. Nicholas June 661/2 The real name of this plant is the Scimitar pod, or ‘Entada scandens’. It..grows in India and South America.

1905 Census of Philippine Islands 1903 IV. 162 Entada scandens... Sea bean or Scimitar pod, Eng. A giant climber, with stems as thick as a man's arm and a hundred feet long.

† scimitar razor-shell n. Obsolete rare = sense 3.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Solenidae

razorc1311

spout1525

spout-fish1594

razor-fish1602

sheath-fish1602

hagfish1611

pitot1611

solen1661

sheath shell1712

sheatha1717

razor shell1752

knife-handle1755

sea-pencil1755

razor-shell clam1792

long clam1811

scabbard razor-shell1813

scimitar razor-shell1819

spout shell1848

scimitar1855

razor clam1860

1819 W. Turton Conchol. Dict. 160 Solen Ensis, Scimitar Razor-shell.

† scimitar-tree n. Obsolete rare = kaffir plum n. at Kaffir n. and adj. Compounds 1b.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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1890 Cent. Dict. Simitar-tree, see Harpephyllum.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	scimitar
释义	scimitarn. Brit. /ˈsɪmᵻtə/, U.S. /ˈsɪmədər/, /ˈsɪməˌtɑr/ Forms: α. 1500s sumyter, 1500s symitare, 1500s–1600s semitar, 1500s–1600s semiter, 1500s–1600s semitor, 1600s semyter, 1600s symeter, 1700s symiter, 1700s– simitar, 1900s– simetar. β. 1500s cimitarie, 1500s cimiteries (plural), 1500s semeterrie, 1500s semiteries (plural), 1500s semitorie, 1500s shimitaries (plural), 1500s–1600s cemitaries (plural), 1500s–1600s cimitary, 1500s–1600s scimitarie, 1500s–1600s semitarie, 1600s cimitery, 1600s semitory. γ. 1500s–1800s scimiter, 1500s– scimitar, 1600s scemiter, 1600s scindifer, 1600s skimiter, 1600s–1800s scimetar, 1600s–1800s scimeter, 1600s–1800s scymetar, 1600s–1800s scymeter, 1600s–1800s scymitar, 1600s–1800s scymiter. δ. 1500s cemitare, 1500s cemiterre, 1500s cimyter, 1500s cymetere, 1500s–1600s cemiter, 1500s–1600s cimiterre, 1500s–1600s cymeter, 1500s–1600s cymetter, 1500s–1600s cymiter, 1500s–1800s cimiter, 1600s cemeter, 1600s cemitar, 1600s cymeterre, 1600s cymetre, 1600s cymitar, 1600s–1800s cimetar, 1600s–1800s cimeter, 1900s– cimitar. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Italian. Etymons: French cimeterre; Italian scimitarra. Etymology: < (i) Middle French cimeterre, simeterre, scimeterre, symetere, semeterre, saimetaire, etc. (c1450; French cimeterre ), and its etymon (ii) Italian scimitarra, †simitara, †semitara, †samitara, etc. (a1405), probably ultimately < Persian šamšīr , apparently literally ‘lion's claw’ (already in Middle Persian; > Hellenistic Greek σαμψήρα , a kind of sword of state; compare shamsheer n.), perhaps via an unattested Turkish intermediary. Compare Catalan simitarra (1481), Spanish cimitarra (mid 15th cent as semitarra), Portuguese cimitarra, †semitarra, etc. (1450 as çamitarra). Compare also post-classical Latin cymitharra ( C. Richer De Rebus Turcarum (1540) 60).The origin of the t in the forms found in European languages is uncertain; it may result from dissimilation. 1. a. A short single-edged sword with a curved blade that typically broadens before the point, used chiefly in Turkey and the Middle East. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > sword > [noun] > scimitar scimitar1530 shamsheer1634 Turk1638 badelaire1693 ataghan1813 yataghan1819 α. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 278/2 Sumyter a fauchon, sumiterre. ?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda sig. B1^v With this Semitor, [I]..Endured some three or foure howers combat. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iv. ii. 90 He dies vpon my Semitars sharpe point. View more context for this quotation 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 53 An vnexpected Semiter..cut off his head. 1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura sig. b5 Damascus Symeters. 1690 tr. U. Chevreau Great Scanderberg 78 His Semitar had cleaved so fast to his hand in the heat of the Fight, that it could not be pluck'd off. 1737 S.-Carolina Gaz. 30 July 3/2 Just imported in the Ship Princess Caroline..3 fourth 7 eighth and yard wide Garlix..Symiters, gilt belts, [etc.]. 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 586/2 The heathen Mahomedans imprint lessons from the Alcoran on the blades of their simitars. 1895 Argosy Nov. 145/1 There is a simitar at his side and a golden tipped wand in his hand. 1906 Pearson's Mag. Dec. 629/2 The curved swords of the East; I am not sure whether I should call them simetars or yataghans. 2008 I. B. McCabe Orientalism in Early Mod. France ix. 247 The turban eclipsed the crescent and the simitar in importance in European iconography. β. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. vj^v Appareled after Turkey fashion..girded with two swordes, called Cimiteries.1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden Ep. Ded. sig. B^v A trenchant Turkish semitorie.1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xxvii. 403 By one onely blow of a Cimitary or broade Persian Sword.1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. 1 Semitarie, a crooked Sword or Faulchion.1640 F. Knight Relation Seaven Yeares Slaverie 36 120 Oddabasshes followes them.., (60) of these carrying naked Cimitaries, up right against their breasts.γ. 1562 J. Shute tr. in Two Comm. Turcks ii. f. 43 The sworde that Scanderbeg strake the beste with was a Scimitar bending lyke vnto a falchion.1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iv. vii. 213 If they haue a good skimiter, [they] had rather haue a blow on their arme, then their weapon hurt.a1668 W. Davenant Man's the Master (1669) iv. 57 Suppose that with a Syrian Scemiter,..I were minc'd into a Py.1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 82. ⁋10 A Scymitar once wielded by a soldier.1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall VI. lxvii. 441 In the hands of the Turks, the scymetar was the only instrument of conversion.1814 Ld. Byron Corsair iii. viii. 79 Therefore came I..To smite the smiter with the scimitar.1832 W. Irving Alhambra II. 64 His scymetar and dagger were of the workmanship of Fez.1875 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 3) vi. 310 The Scythians worshipped an iron scimetar as a symbol of the war-god.1936 Stage June 81/1 On the back wall is a painting of a ram's head with crossed scimitars below it.1961 S. J. Perelman Rising Gorge 112 Nobody..can resist the appeal of a man flourishing a scimitar.2002 R. Cohen By Sword v. xvii. 392 The scimitar, with its keen arc-shaped edge.δ. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 756 He..ranne sodainly to him with a cimiter drawen in his hand.1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. v. sig. P8 Vppon her thigh her Cemitare was tide. View more context for this quotation1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 28 The Patrone..drawing a Turkish Cymiter, beginneth to lay about him.1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxxiv. 266 They worshipped their tutelar deity under the symbol of an iron cimeter.1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Leila i. ii. 8 The curving cimiter.1886 Harper's Mag. Feb. 467/2 Shemr raised his glittering cimeter.1922 Nassau Literary Mag. Dec. 135 I keep a wooden paper knife.., its blade curved in the shape of a cimitar.2011 M. Moncur Daughter of Helaman ix. 82 We were working on skills with the cimeter. b. figurative. Something likened to a scimitar, esp. in being curved or piercing. ΚΠ a1687 C. Cotton Poems (1689) 650 And Pendant by their brawny Thighs, Hang Cimetars of burnisht Ice. 1825 W. Scott Talisman iii, in Tales Crusaders III. 64 To raise up the scymitar of resistance. 1922 M. S. Leitch Waggon & Star 83 Sudden light..Stabbing your brain with its keen scimitar. 1991 J. Wolf Daughter of Red Deer i. ii. 21 The stars overhead were brilliant, undimmed by the pale scimitar of the new moon. 2. More fully scimitar pea. Any of several varieties of pea having a distinctive long slender curving pod. Also with distinguishing word. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > other types of pea or pea-plant rouncival1570 garden pea1573 field pease1597 vale-grey1615 rose pea1629 hotspur1663 seven-year pea1672 rathe-ripe1677 huff-codc1680 pigeon pea1683 hog-pease1686 shrub pea1691 field pea1707 pea1707 crown pea1726 maple rouncival1731 marrowfat1731 moratto1731 pig pea1731 sickle-pea1731 hog pea1732 maple pea1732 marrow pea1733 black eye?1740 egg-pea1744 magotty bay bean1789 Prussian1804 maple grey1805 partridge pea1812 Prussian blue1822 scimitar1834 marrow1855 fill-basket1881 string-pea1891 mattar1908 vining pea1959 1834 S. Maine Catal. Agric. & Hort. Seeds 3 (table) Blue Scimitar. 1849 Midland Florist 3 97 For general purposes we would strongly recommend the old Scimitar, as a dwarf good-cropping variety. 1868 C. Darwin Variation Animals & Plants I. ix. 328 In the Queen of the Dwarfs and in Scimitar peas the pod is almost elliptic in shape. 1872 Jrnl. Hort., Cottage Gardener, & Country Gentleman 21 Nov. 402/1 The Scimitar is a strong and sturdy grower.., generally with a single, but sometimes a with a branching stem. 1928 U. P. Hedrick et al. Veg. N. Y.: Peas iii. 42/2 It is probably that Giant White Scimitar is Vilmorin's Long-podded Improved Scimitar. †3. The razor shell Ensis (formerly Solon) ensis, of north-western Europe; = scimitar razor-shell n. at Compounds 2. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Solenidae razorc1311 spout1525 spout-fish1594 razor-fish1602 sheath-fish1602 hagfish1611 pitot1611 solen1661 sheath shell1712 sheatha1717 razor shell1752 knife-handle1755 sea-pencil1755 razor-shell clam1792 long clam1811 scabbard razor-shell1813 scimitar razor-shell1819 spout shell1848 scimitar1855 razor clam1860 1815 E. J. Burrow Elements Conchol. 195 (table) Scymetar S[olen or Sheath Shell].] 1855 Eclectic Mag. Feb. 210/1 What are the delicate green-gray scimitars? What are the tapering brown spires? 1859 C. Kingsley Glaucus (ed. 4) 71 The grey scimitars are Solens. Compounds C1. Parasynthetic, as scimitar-billed, scimitar-shaped, etc.See also scimitar-horned adj. ΚΠ 1765 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 2) Gloss. 449 Acinaciforme, Faulchion or Scymitar-shaped. 1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. II. xxix. 267 Knotted, scimitar-shaped horns. 1972 Y. Lovelock Veg. Bk. i. 55 The scimitar-podded kidney bean..grows wild in tropical America and is also cultivated. 1986 L. E. Likoff Encycl. Birds I. 532 The scimitar-billed wood-hoopoe (Rhinopomastus cyanomelas) shares much of its crested cousin's African range. 1996 Sunday Tel. 13 Oct. 2/5 Not in Blackpool, where hair is razored to the scalp and scimitar-bladed sideboards slice down below the cheekbone. 2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures I. 252/1 It more likely represents a Scimitar toothed cat (Homotherium latidens), a Pleistocene sabretooth. 2007 L. M. Chiappe Glorified Dinosaurs i. 26/1 Modern birds have a scimitar-shaped scapula. C2. scimitar-babbler n. any of various Asian babblers of the genus Pomatorhinus and related genera, distinguished by a long curved bill. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Timaliinae > other types of babbler1832 scimitar-billed babbler1854 scimitar-babbler1863 scimitar-bill1872 rat-bird1883 hill-wren1885 1863 T. C. Jerdon Birds India II. 31 (heading) The Southern Scimitar-babbler. 1928 H. Whistler Pop. Handbk. Indian Birds 38 This Scimitar-Babbler is a gregarious species going about in small parties. 2005 Auk 122 1064 On 6 February 2004, we captured two scimitar-babblers that appeared to be representatives of the genus Jabouilleia. scimitar-bill n. (a) = scimitar-babbler n. (now rare); (b) each of three East African birds constituting the genus Rhinopomastus, having a long slender downcurved bill and mainly black plumage with a purple gloss. Rhinopomastus species are usually placed with wood hoopoes in the family Phoeniculidae, but are now sometimes given their own family, Rhinopomastidae. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Timaliinae > other types of babbler1832 scimitar-billed babbler1854 scimitar-babbler1863 scimitar-bill1872 rat-bird1883 hill-wren1885 1872 Proc. Zool. Soc. 448 Like its congeners, however, this Scimitar-bill is essentially a hill bird. 1905 Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 3 335 Rhinopomastus cyanomelas (Vieill.), Scimitar-bill. 1935 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1934 86 188 Pomatorhinus hypoleucos tickelli. Tickell's Scimitar-Bill. Pomatorhinus tickelli Blyth... Apparently not a common bird in Northern Siam. 1963 J. G. Williams Field Guide Birds E. & Central Afr. 152 Abyssinian Scimitar-bill Rhinopomastus minor... This is the smallest of the Wood Hoopoes. 2006 E. M. McCarthy Handbk. Avian Hybrids of World 116/1 Scimitar-bills. Family Rhinopomastidae. Rhinopomastus aterrimus [Black Scimitar-bill] × Rhinopomastus cyanomelas [Common Scimitar-bill]. scimitar-billed babbler n. now rare = scimitar-babbler n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Timaliinae > other types of babbler1832 scimitar-billed babbler1854 scimitar-babbler1863 scimitar-bill1872 rat-bird1883 hill-wren1885 1854 T. Horsfield & F. Moore Catal. Birds Mus. E. India Co. I. 238 Xiphorhamphus superciliaris, Blyth... Scimitar-billed Babbler, Jerd. A. Darjeeling. From Pearson's Collection. 1919 Jrnl. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 26 iii. 771 The Rusty-cheeked Scimitar billed Babbler—Pomatorhinus erythrogenys erythrogenys, Vig. 1933 Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1932 326 The vernacular name of Pomatorhinus melanurus Blyth is the scimitar-billed babbler, derived from its long curved bill. scimitar oryx n. = scimitar-horned oryx n. at scimitar-horned adj. ΚΠ 1903 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1 300 A[ntilope] dammah was erroneously identified by Rüppell..with the Beisa, but by its locality..is clearly shown to be the Scimitar Oryx. 1974 Arctic Anthropol. 11 238 Scimitar oryx are browsers and grazers, preferring the grassy, low-brush plains and open savannah zones. 2008 Africa (UNEP) 26/1 The scimitar oryx, or scimitar-horned oryx is a species of oryx which once inhabited the whole of North Africa... There are conflicting reports as to whether it is extinct in the wild. scimitar pod n. now rare a tropical climbing plant, Entada gigas (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)), with long, woody, scimitar-shaped seed pods containing heart-shaped seeds; also called sword bean. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants, nuts, seeds, or fruits used as beads or vessels > [noun] > cacoon plant or bean sea-bean1696 cacoon1854 segra1864 sequa1866 scimitar pod1871 Queensland bean1889 1871 J. Smith Domest. Bot. 432 Scimitar Pods (Entada scandens)... Its large hard-wooded flat pods..resemble a sword or scimitar. 1884 St. Nicholas June 661/2 The real name of this plant is the Scimitar pod, or ‘Entada scandens’. It..grows in India and South America. 1905 Census of Philippine Islands 1903 IV. 162 Entada scandens... Sea bean or Scimitar pod, Eng. A giant climber, with stems as thick as a man's arm and a hundred feet long. † scimitar razor-shell n. Obsolete rare = sense 3. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Solenidae razorc1311 spout1525 spout-fish1594 razor-fish1602 sheath-fish1602 hagfish1611 pitot1611 solen1661 sheath shell1712 sheatha1717 razor shell1752 knife-handle1755 sea-pencil1755 razor-shell clam1792 long clam1811 scabbard razor-shell1813 scimitar razor-shell1819 spout shell1848 scimitar1855 razor clam1860 1819 W. Turton Conchol. Dict. 160 Solen Ensis, Scimitar Razor-shell. † scimitar-tree n. Obsolete rare = kaffir plum n. at Kaffir n. and adj. Compounds 1b.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Simitar-tree, see Harpephyllum. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1530
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