Venusn.1
/ˈviːnəs/, U.S. /ˈvinəs/ I. Senses relating to the goddess, love, or lust.† 2. The desire for sexual intercourse; indulgence of sexual desire; lust, venery. Obsolete.† 3. † b. Beauty; charm. Obsolete. rare.
1.
a. Mythology. The ancient Roman goddess of beauty and love (esp. sensual love), or the corresponding Greek goddess Aphrodite.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > Venus or Aphrodite
Venusa1000
Aphroditec1658
a1000 Solomon & Saturn 124 Ðone syxtan dæg hi gesetton ðære sceamleasan gydenan Uenus gehaten, and Frycg on Denisc.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 2433 After him [Jupiter] we honoureþ venus mest, þat frie ycluped is.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 604 So faire ladies ar none lyuand; Bot me þynkes of ȝow þre Dame Venus semes fairest to be.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 84 The Coper set is to Venus, And to his part Mercurius.
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. 3443 In honour only of Venus, þe goddes, Whom þe Grekis with al her besynes Honoured most of euery maner age.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xiv. 50 Certes, Venus, thou and thy sone Cupydo are gretely to be praysed.
1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 184 The birdis sang..With curiouse note, as Venus chapell clerkis.
1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. I6v Thou shalt..Sit like to Venus in her chaire of state, Commanding all thy princely eie desires.
1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 132 As if this troublesome intruding Guest Would drive the Birds of Venus [= doves], from their Nest.
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 253 Certain feasts..Where Venus hears the lover's tender vow.
1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. 141 The temple of Venus at Eryx, which was most probably founded by Phœnicians.
1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 172/2 The native Roman goddess Venus, as distinguished from the Venus who through contact with the Greeks was afterwards identified with Aphrodite.
b. In allusive use: (cf. sense 2).
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the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [noun] > god or goddess of love
Cupidc1381
Venusc1412
loves1595
bow-boy1597
love god1598
amorino1612
amoret1613
amourette1651
Eros1671
urchin1709
amoretto1873
c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 3890 Þere wole he outen his langage, And do to Bachus and Venus homage.
c1508 Blowbol's Test. 62 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 94 He gaf me many a good certacion..That he had laboured in Venus secrete celle.
1693 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. (ed. 2) 134 at Maslach Sometimes they take Three Drams, without any prejudice, especially when they are about to Fight the Battels of Mars or Venus.
a1791 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 822 In wars at home I'll spend my blood, Life-giving wars of Venus.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. iv. vii. 153 He could not stomach those beauties, who call a spade, a spade. Such were not for his market; the rites of Venus must be consummated in the temple of Vesta.
c. A representation, esp. a statue or image, of Venus.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [noun] > statue > of gods or goddesses
Venusa1568
Herma1579
Priapus1579
mercury1586
Vulcan1638
victoriaa1684
mercury's statue1684
pantheum1706
signum pantheum1706
xoanon1706
Hermes1728
Minerva1802
Nike1850
Trimurti1877
hermetic-
a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 67 Cæsar..is like the halfe face of a Venus, the other part of the head beyng hidden, the bodie and the rest of the members vnbegon.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 566 But of all the images that ever were made,..his [sc. Praxiteles] Venus passeth, which hee wrought for them of Gnidos.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 414 Twixt the Pictures 2 naked Venus's of Titian.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 415 A Venus of Marble vaild from the Navil to the feete.
1722 J. Richardson Acct. Statues Italy 134 There is a Venus which stands just by This which is Irreproachable.
1834 Penny Cycl. II. 157/2 Many representations of the goddess [Aphrodite]..are extant: among these, the celebrated statue, called the Venus de' Medici, is that with which we are most familiarized.
1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xiv. 135 The wig-box beside the Venus upon the middle shelf of the bookcase.
d. A local or other distinct conception of the goddess; also transferred, a goddess in other mythologies corresponding to Venus.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > other deities > [noun] > corresponding to Venus
Venus1770
the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > Venus or Aphrodite > local or in other mythologies
Venus1770
1770 T. Percy tr. P. H. Mallet Northern Antiq. I. 94 This Frea became in the sequel..the Venus of the north, doubtless because she passed for the principle of all fecundity.
1828 R. Duppa Trav. Italy 136 He also shewed us a little bronze statue of a Venus.
1877 W. R. Cooper Short Hist. Egypt. Obelisks (1878) vii. 30 Under the special protection of Hathor, the Egyptian Venus.
e. Archaeology. A palaeolithic female figurine distinguished by exaggerated breasts, belly, and buttocks. Cf. steatopyga n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [noun] > statue > Palaeolithic or Neolithic
birdstone1881
Venus1912
fiddle idol1939
1912 R. Munro Palæolithic Man x. 239 Laugerie Basse has supplied a fragment of bone with a pregnant woman and reindeer engraved on it..; the Venus..a headless statuette carved in ivory.
1920 H. C. Bailey Call Mr. Fortune 191 ‘My new palæolithic Venus.’ ‘You left her in the library... There are not many men..who have a Hottentot Venus to lose.’
1937 W. H. Auden & L. MacNeice Lett. from Iceland xvii. 245 We leave to that poor soul A. M. Ludovici the Venus of Willendorf.
1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Apr. 198/4 One archaeologist's interpretation of palaeolithic figurines or ‘Venuses’ as ‘the characteristic products of unregenerated male imagination’.
1979 Mills & Mansfield Genuine Article ii. 34 The Venus figurine[s]..date from around 25,000 to 22,000 B.C... One of the most celebrated is the ‘Venus of Willendorf’ from Austria.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun]
willOE
loveOE
likinga1200
jollityc1330
desirec1340
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naturec1387
ragea1425
pride1486
lovered1487
Venus1513
courage1541
passion1648
lusting1760
philogenitiveness1815
body-urge1930
hots1940
hard-on1949
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid iv. Prol. 97 Childir to engener ois Venus, and nocht in vane.
?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes f. 165 Sardanapalus..was alwaies waried..but neuer satisfied with Venus.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta iii. 61 It yeeldeth very good nourishment, which..encreaseth seede, and exciteth Venus.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 131 What's more strange, their modest Appetites, Averse from Venus, fly the nuptial Rites. View more context for this quotation
1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. xviii. 43 If Venus be his darling Vice.
1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires i. iv. 148 An honest Venus will indulge your Flame.
a. A quality or characteristic that excites love; a charm, grace, or attractive feature. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > attractive quality or feature
lust1390
jollity1484
allure1534
Venus1540
attract1593
attraction1599
attractive1607
gold dust1690
charm1697
charmingness1727
take1794
charmfulness1842
style1897
appeal1916
pull factor1938
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus sig. Livv Here dwell Venusis and graces of al kynd.
1608 T. Middleton Your Fiue Gallants sig. A4 A pretie fat eyde wench, with a Venus in her cheeke.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iv. vi. 204 All the graces, Veneres, pleasures, elegances attend him.
1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 236 Know'st not how many Venuses appear In others gold?
1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Sensus Communis: Ess. Freedom of Wit 107 Every one is a Virtuoso, of a higher or lower degree: Every one pursues a Grace, and courts a Venus of one kind or another.
1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks I. iii. 337 If he knows not this Venus, these Graces [etc.].
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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun]
wlitec825
faireOE
fairnessOE
fairlecc1225
fairheadc1300
fairshipc1300
forma1382
clearnessa1400
beautyc1405
delicacya1450
pulchritudea1460
speciositya1470
lovelinessa1500
beautifulnessc1500
formosityc1500
fairhood?1503
bewtynes?c1510
decorea1513
venusty1559
decorum1604
bellitude1623
beauteousnessa1631
loveliheada1637
decor1656
luculency1656
Venus1657
coquetry1794
beautyhood1832
glamour1840
1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 181 The Garden;..the place now made a waste;..all the Venus of the place was gone.
1710 Ld. Shaftesbury Soliloquy 176 To discover, amongst the many false Relishes and ill Stiles, the true and natural one, which represents the real Beauty and Venus of the kind.
1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks I. iii. 337 'Tis the like moral Grace, and Venus, which..is copy'd by the writing Artist.
4. A beautiful or attractive woman.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beautiful thing or person > beautiful person > beautiful woman
clearc1330
comelya1375
wlonk?a1400
brightc1400
gayc1400
sheenc1400
violet1412
berylc1440
blossomc1440
bonnya1529
pertc1540
bonylasse1546
Venus?1572
spark1575
bellibone1579
bonnibel1579
nymph1584
cheruba1616
lily1622
bellea1640
fine1639
toast1700
houri1745
belle dame1768
peri1813
beauty queen1835
stallion1970
?1572 T. Paynell tr. Treasurie Amadis of Fraunce viii. 188 One day ye reputed me for a Venus, that rested (as ye assured me) in your heart.
1675 J. Smith Christian Relig. Appeal iii. 8 The great Beauty of the Land, an Helen, a Venus.
1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem iv. 50 Had my Spark call'd me a Venus directly, I shou'd have believ'd him a Footman in good earnest.
1815 Woman's Will ii. i, in New Brit. Theatre IV. 62 Witness the Hottentot Venus before she has strung on her beads.
1816 J. K. Tuckey Narr. Exped. River Zaire (1818) i. 18 The dreams they had indulged in of the sable Venuses which they were to find on the banks of the Congo.
a1841 T. Hook Ned Musgrave i The evening on which he first saw this Venus of the village.
II. Something named after the goddess.† 6. † b. So in crystals, saffron, salt, vinegar, vitriol of Venus (see quots.). Obsolete.† 7. Heraldry. A name for the tincture green or vert when the names of planets are used in blazonry.β. plural.1777 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, quarto) IV. vi. 89 Tellina..Rugosa... Dredged up at Weymouth. Misplaced among the Venuses.1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 257 That these supposed fresh-water shells are sometimes found scattered among a multitude of acknowledged sea shells, as, Oysters, Venus's, &c.1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 209/2 In the Veneres the animal, furnished with longer siphons, is provided with a retractor muscle.
5. Astronomy. The second planet in order of distance from the sun, revolving in an orbit between those of Mercury and the earth; the morning or evening star.
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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > inferior planet > [noun] > Venus
Venusc1290
Venus star1591
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 311 Sethþe þe sonne is, Venus sethþe, þe clere steorre.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 4704 To tueye sterren, þat me sucþ ylome, Venus & Mercurius, hii weneþ þat hii bicome.
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 1016 The bryght venus folwede and ay taughte The wey, ther brode Phebus down alighte.
c1400 Treat. Astron. 8 b (Bodl. B. 17) The secunde owre of þe same day is the owre of þe planet Venus.
a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 11 in Poems (1981) 111 Fair Venus, the bewtie of the nicht, Vprais.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 107 Let her shine as gloriously As the Venus of the sky. View more context for this quotation
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 169 Venus you retriv'd, In opposition with Mars, And no benigne friendly Stars T' allay th' effect.
1727 J. Thomson Summer 81 To Heaven, where Venus, in the starry Front, Shines eminent.
?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 436/2 When Venus appears west of the sun, she rises before him in the morning, and is called the morning-star; when she appears east of the sun, she shines in the evening after he sets, and is then called the evening-star.
1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts (at cited word) Venus changes her phases like those of the moon, according to her position, relative to the earth and sun.
1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 81 Thus the solid ground of Venus is uneven, like that of Mercury and the Earth.
a. Alchemy. Copper. (In quot. 1797 allusively.)
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the world > matter > alchemy > other alchemical substances or theories > [noun] > copper
Venusc1386
crystals, saffron, salt, vinegar, vitriol of Venus1693
c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 276 Sol gold is,..and Jubiter is tyn, And Venus coper, by my fader kyn.
1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 20 in Jewell House The Alcumists giue a blauncher vnto Venus with the salt of Tartar.
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. i. sig. D The great medicine! Of which one part proiected on a hundred Of Mercurie, or Venus, or the Moone, Shall turne it, to as many of the Sunne. View more context for this quotation
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Copper The Chymists call it Venus; as supposing it to have some more immediate Relation to that Planet.
1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 49 The Alchymists..bestowed on the seven Metals..the names of the seven Planets of the Ancients... Thus Gold was called Sol, Silver Luna, Copper Venus, Tin Jupiter, Lead Saturn, Iron Mars, and Quick-silver Mercury.
1797 W. Johnston tr. J. Beckmann Hist. Inventions & Discov. I. 398 One may justly doubt whether, at present, Mars, Venus, or Saturn, is most destructive to the human race.
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the world > matter > alchemy > other alchemical substances or theories > [noun] > copper
Venusc1386
crystals, saffron, salt, vinegar, vitriol of Venus1693
the world > matter > chemistry > chemical substances > salts > [noun] > salts named by atomic number > sulphates or sulphites > copper sulphate
Roman vitriol?a1425
blue vitriol1560
blue copperas1646
bluestone1651
crystals, saffron, salt, vinegar, vitriol of Venus1693
vitriol of copper1694
blue vitriol1728
the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > sulphur > [noun] > compounds > sulphates > of copper
Roman vitriol?a1425
blue copperas1617
bluestone1651
crystals, saffron, salt, vinegar, vitriol of Venus1693
vitriol of copper1694
blue vitriol1728
copper-vitriol1770
1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 901 This very elaborate method of procuring the Salt of Venus.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Vitriol of Copper or Venus is Blue Chrystals made by a Solution of Copper in Spirit of Nitre, Evaporation, and Chrystallization in a cool place.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Copper The Calx of Brass, called Æs and Ustum, sometimes also Saffron of Venus, is nothing but Copper calcin'd in a violent Fire.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 623 The acetous salt of copper, called crystals of Venus, or of verdigris, by the chemists.
1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 259 When acetate of copper, reduced to powder, is put into a retort and distilled, there comes over a liquid..and afterwards a highly concentrated acid... The acid..was formerly distinguished by the names of radical vinegar and vinegar of Venus.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic tincture > [noun] > colour > green
verd1449
sinople1489
vert?1507
emerald1572
Venus1572
1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 16 I pray you what planet belongeth to this colour [sc. vert]? Venus.]
1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 78v The fielde is parted per Fesse Dented, Venus, and Saturne, five brasauntes.
1680 G. Mackenzie Sci. Herauldry i. iv. 19 The English..give it for a rule, That the Coats of Soveraigns should be blazon'd by Planets,..and have suited them in the manner here set down... Vert. Emerald Venus.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Vert, the Heralds Word for a Green Colour;..in Coats of Nobles, 'tis called Emerauld; and in those of Kings 'tis called Venus.
8. The highest or most favourable cast or throw in playing with huckle-bones.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > throw > highest throw
Venus1611
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (at cited word) The play at huckle-bones, wherein he that turns vp Venus (figured on one side of the bone) doth winne; whereas he that turnes vp the dog, doth lose.
c1650 in MS. Ashmole 788 f. 162 The game of Astragalls... When all ye fower boanes shal shew seuerall sides this is the most fortunate cast & is called Midas or Venus take all Cock-all.
1737 J. Ozell tr. F. Rabelais Wks. III. p. xvi Venus was the best Cast, three Sices.
1876 R. Browning At the ‘Mermaid’ xv Well may you blaspheme at fortune! I ‘threw Venus’ (Ben, expound!).]
9. girdle (also mound, mount, ring) of Venus, in palmistry (see quots.); also mount of Venus, in anatomy (see quot. 17281).Cf. 1653 for Venus's girdle n. at Compounds 2c.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > palmistry > [noun] > mark on the hand > mark encircling root of thumb
girdle (also mound, mount, ring) of Venus1865
1695 W. Congreve Love for Love ii. i. 21 She has..a moist Palm, and an open Liberality on the Mount of Venus.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Mount of Venus, Mons Veneris, among Anatomists, is a little hairy Protuberance, in the middle of the Pubes of Women.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Among Chiromancers, the Mount of Venus is a little Eminence in the Palm of the Hand, at the Root of one of the Fingers.
1865 R. Beamish Psychonomy of Hand 31 The line of Saturn, the ring of Venus, and the line of Apollo.
1894 P. Bello Palmistry 21 The Girdle of Venus is a line describing a semicircle, extending from between the Mounts of Jupiter and Saturn to the Mount of Mercury. This girdle is generally absent.
1900 I. Oxenford Mod. Palmistry 22 The Mount of Venus encircles the root of the thumb, and is bounded more or less by the Life-line.
10. Zoology. A genus of bivalve molluscs typically representing the family Veneridae; a member of this genus or family; a venerid. Cf. clam n.2 1d.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Veneridae
Venus-shell1589
hena1613
sea-snapple1658
clam1672
clamp1672
nun1678
purr?1711
Venus purr1713
Venus1777
quahog1781
palourde1823
littleneck1854
venerid1861
1777 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, quarto) IV. vi. 93 Venus [and various other species] Commercial.
1777 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) IV. vi. 93.
1803 F. W. Blagdon tr. P. S. Pallas Trav. Southern Provinces Russ. Empire II. 293 A ribbed Venus [Ger. eine gerippte..Venus], rounded at one extremity.
1857 P. H. Gosse Omphalos viii. 228 That lilac-tinted Prickly Venus (Dione Veneris).
1880 H. C. Bastian Brain 75 The Razor-fish, Cockle, Venus, and other bivalves possessing..‘siphon-tubes’.
Compounds
General attributive. C1.
a. Simple attributive (also possessive without 's).† Venus mole n. Obsolete† Venus pigeon n. Obsolete† Venus star n. Obsolete
Venus bower n.
ΚΠ
1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus i. f. 2v In Venus Bowr to eik baith game and glew.
Venus court n.
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1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid iv. Prol. 159 Lat ws in riot leif, in sport and gam, In Venus court.
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 39v If [she is] one of Venus courte they haue vowed dishonestie.
Venus knot n.
ΚΠ
1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta I. iv. 54 Her hair fastened in a sort of Venus knot behind.
ΚΠ
1620 Swetnam Arraigned (1880) 45 By Art they know..how to adde A Venus mole on euery wanton cheeke.
ΚΠ
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. vi. 5 O tenne times faster Venus pidgions flie to seale loues bonds new made. View more context for this quotation
Venus-spell n.
ΚΠ
1902 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 321 Helen, by reason of the Venus-spell,..loves Paris.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > inferior planet > [noun] > Venus
Venusc1290
Venus star1591
1591 E. Spenser Daphnaïda 483 And night without a Venus starre is found.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Venere,..the day or morning star, called Lucifer or Venus star.
Venus swan n.
ΚΠ
1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido 39 Venus swannes shall shed their siluer downe, To sweeten out the slumbers of thy bed.
Venus throw n.
ΚΠ
1879 C. T. Lewis & C. Short Lat. Dict. Venereus, the Venus-throw at dice.
b. In sense 2, as Venus act, Venus exercise, Venus life, Venus play, Venus work, etc.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse
ymonec950
moneOE
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manredc1275
swivinga1300
couplec1320
companyc1330
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the service of Venusc1350
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carnal knowinga1400
flesha1400
knowledgea1400
knowledginga1400
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itc1440
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copulation1483
mixturea1500
Venus act?1507
Venus exercise?1507
Venus play?1507
Venus work?1507
conversation?c1510
flesh-company1522
act?1532
carnal knowledge1532
occupying?1544
congression1546
soil1555
conjunction1567
fucking1568
rem in re1568
commixture1573
coiture1574
shaking of the sheets?1577
cohabitation1579
bedding1589
congress1589
union1598
embrace1599
making-outa1601
rutting1600
noddy1602
poop-noddy1606
conversinga1610
carnal confederacy1610
wapping1610
businessa1612
coition1615
doinga1616
amation1623
commerce1624
hot cocklesa1627
other thing1628
buck1632
act of love1638
commistion1658
subagitation1658
cuntc1664
coit1671
intimacy1676
the last favour1676
quiffing1686
old hat1697
correspondence1698
frigging1708
Moll Peatley1711
coitus1713
sexual intercourse1753
shagging1772
connection1791
intercourse1803
interunion1822
greens1846
tail1846
copula1864
poking1864
fuckeea1866
sex relation1871
wantonizing1884
belly-flopping1893
twatting1893
jelly roll1895
mattress-jig1896
sex1900
screwing1904
jazz1918
zig-zig1918
other1922
booty1926
pigmeat1926
jazzing1927
poontang1927
relations1927
whoopee1928
nookie1930
hump1931
jig-a-jig1932
homework1933
quickie1933
nasty1934
jig-jig1935
crumpet1936
pussy1937
Sir Berkeley1937
pom-pom1945
poon1947
charvering1954
mollocking1959
leg1967
rumpy-pumpy1968
shafting1971
home plate1972
pata-pata1977
bonking1985
legover1985
knobbing1986
rumpo1986
fanny1993
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 51 He that wantis riches And valȝeandnes in Venus play is ful vile haldin.
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid iv. Prol. 187 With Venus henvifis quhat wyse may I flite?
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 753 Þai solast hom samyn..With venus werkes, þat hom well pleasid.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 158 That licherie and wenus lyfe hes oft tymes a euill end.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Venereo,..given to Venus-sports, or letchery.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 166 Most of them when they were stripped, were seene to have scarres of Venus warfare.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. i Venus-escuage, wanton fleshlinesse.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. iii Barnacle, a kinde of Sea Gull, it growes not by Venus act, but as Dubartas writes [etc.].
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 151 Opium..makes them strong and long in Venus exercises.
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1004 Unless there had been plenty of milk at hand, this Venus bird had died and suffered deservedly for his Lechery.
1786 R. Burns Poems 85 A glorious Galley..Weel rigg'd for Venus barter.
1821 W. Liddle Poems 26 Your venus jobs now's a' kend thro' The Loudins braid.
c. (In sense 10.)
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1816 J. K. Tuckey Narr. Exped. River Zaire (1818) ii. 58 Fragments of shells of the cockle and venus genera.
1861 P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1860 256 The Venus-tribe may be regarded as the types of the Lamellibranchs.
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a. Special combinations (of the possessive, with or without 's).† Venus dove n. Obsolete† Venus gem n. Obsolete† Venus hair n. (also Venus' hair) Obsolete the maiden-hair, Adiantum Capillus-Veneris (see also quot. 1711).
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1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream i. i. 171 I sweare to thee,..By the simplicitie of Venus doues . View more context for this quotation
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > rock crystal > [noun] > amethyst > varieties of
rock ruby1544
Venus gem1601
rocky ruby1694
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 621 Such Amethysts as these..; many give them the name of Venus gems, for the great grace that they have..both in fashion and colour.
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1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. A.vj Venus heir is in a meane tempre betwene hote & colde.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 409 Venus heare groweth in walles, and in stony shadowy places.
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 450 Leaves, of venus-haire, and lungwort.
1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii VI. Table LIV Round leaved Malabar Venus-hair... Its large notch'd Leaves on single Stalks, distinguish it from others.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 399/2 Venus'-hair, the Adiantum capillus-Veneris, given as an expectorant, and forming the basis of the celebrated syrup of capillaire.
Venus pencil n. (see quots.).
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > tectosilicate > [noun] > quartz > crystalline quartzes > rock crystal > piece of > enclosing other fragments
Venus's hair-stone1601
Venus pencil1884
1884 Imperial Dict. IV Venus's hair-stones, Venus's pencils, fanciful names applied to rock crystals inclosing slender hair-like or needle-like crystals of horn~blende, asbestos, oxide of iron, rutile, oxide of manganese, &c.
Venus's hair-stone n.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > tectosilicate > [noun] > quartz > crystalline quartzes > rock crystal > piece of > enclosing other fragments
Venus's hair-stone1601
Venus pencil1884
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 629 The stone called Venus haire, is exceeding blacke and shining; howbeit it maketh a shew of red haires sprinckled among.
b. Botany.† Venus' garden n. Obsolete = Venus's navelwort n. (a).† Venus' glass n. Obsolete Venus's looking-glass.† Venus' laver n. Obsolete Venus's basin.† Venus needle n. Obsolete Venus's comb.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Crassulaceae (stonecrop and allies) > [noun] > navelwort
pennywortc1300
wall penny-grassa1400
navelwortc1450
wall penny grass1562
Venus' navel1592
hipwort1597
sea-navel1597
sea-navelwort1597
sea-pennywort1597
Venus' garden1597
cotyledon1601
kidneywort1640
Venus's navelwort1678
penny pie1707
acetabulum1727
penny leaf1782
pancakes1882
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 424 Nauelwort is called..of some Hortus Veneris, or Venus garden.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Nombril de Venus,..Wall Penniwort, Venus garden, Hipwort.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > bellflowers
bell-flower1578
bluebell1578
Canterbury bells1578
Coventry bells1578
Coventry Marians1578
Coventry rapes1578
fair-in-sight1578
gauntlet1578
haskwort1578
Marian's violet1578
throatwort1578
lady's looking glass1597
mariet1597
Mercury's violet1597
peach-bells1597
steeple bells1597
uvula-wort1597
Venus looking-glass1597
campanula1664
Spanish bell1664
corn-violet1665
rampion1688
Venus' glass1728
harebell1767
heath-bell1805
witch bell1808
slipperwort1813
meadow-bell1827
greygle1844
platycodon1844
lady's thimble1853
kikyo1884
witches' bells1884
balloon flower1901
fairy thimble1914
mountain bell1923
1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum (at cited word) Venus Glass,..Speculum veneris sive Viola Pentagona.
1763 W. Stukeley Palæographia Sacra 25 Ladys fingers, ladys traces, ladys linnen, Venus glass, Venus bason,..etc.
1763 [see ]. Venus golden apple n. (see quot.).
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1888 Nicholson's Dict. Gard. IV Venus' Golden Apple, a common name for Atalantia monophylla.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Dipsacaceae (teasel and allies) > [noun]
teasela1300
wokethistlea1400
fuller's teasel?c1425
fawthistle1483
Venus's basin1551
card thistle1578
Venus's bath1578
fuller's weed1587
fuller's herb1593
fuller's thistle1601
fuller's thorn1601
Venus' laver1601
shepherd's rod1633
shepherd's staff1760
manweed1829
Venus's cup1855
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 376 The little grub or worme which is found in the hearbe Tazill, called Venus Laver.
Venus looking-glass n. (also Venus's looking-glass) one or other of certain plants belonging to the genus Specularia, esp. S. (or Campanula) Speculum (†Speculum Veneris).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > bellflowers
bell-flower1578
bluebell1578
Canterbury bells1578
Coventry bells1578
Coventry Marians1578
Coventry rapes1578
fair-in-sight1578
gauntlet1578
haskwort1578
Marian's violet1578
throatwort1578
lady's looking glass1597
mariet1597
Mercury's violet1597
peach-bells1597
steeple bells1597
uvula-wort1597
Venus looking-glass1597
campanula1664
Spanish bell1664
corn-violet1665
rampion1688
Venus' glass1728
harebell1767
heath-bell1805
witch bell1808
slipperwort1813
meadow-bell1827
greygle1844
platycodon1844
lady's thimble1853
kikyo1884
witches' bells1884
balloon flower1901
fairy thimble1914
mountain bell1923
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 356 Speculum Veneris. Venus Looking glasse..groweth in ploughed fields among the corne.
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis ii. iii. iii. 234 The Seed of Venus Looking-Glass.
a1689 A. Behn tr. A. Cowley Plants in Wks. (1711) III. iv. 372 But say, Corn-Violet, why thou dost claim Of Venus Looking-Glass the pompous Name.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xvi. 195 Venus's Looking-glass is a Campanula, with a weak, low and very branching stalk.
1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants Venus' Looking-Glass, from the resemblance of its flowers set upon their cylindrical ovary to an ancient round mirror at the end of a straight handle.
Venus' navel n. = Venus's navelwort n. (a).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Crassulaceae (stonecrop and allies) > [noun] > navelwort
pennywortc1300
wall penny-grassa1400
navelwortc1450
wall penny grass1562
Venus' navel1592
hipwort1597
sea-navel1597
sea-navelwort1597
sea-pennywort1597
Venus' garden1597
cotyledon1601
kidneywort1640
Venus's navelwort1678
penny pie1707
acetabulum1727
penny leaf1782
pancakes1882
1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 24v With other Murall and wall weeds comming out of the chinkes..as..Venus Nauill.
a1637 B. Jonson Pans Anniv. 37 in Wks. (1640) III Bring..Bright Crowne-imperiall, Kings-speare, Holy-hocks, Sweet Venus Navill.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > shepherd's needle
pookneedlea1425
shepherd's needle1562
needle chervil1578
wild chervil1578
lady's comb1597
Venus needle1597
Venus's comb1597
pink needle1611
crow-needle1733
needle1793
Adam's Needle1872
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 884 Scandix..Venus Combe, or Venus Needle.
Venus-pear n. a variety of pear mentioned by Pliny and Columella.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > pear > other types of
calewey1377
honey peara1400
pome-pear1440
pome-wardena1513
choke-pear1530
muscadel1555
worry pear1562
lording1573
bon-chrétienc1575
Burgundian pear1578
king pear1585
pound pear1585
poppering1597
wood of Jerusalem1597
muscadine1598
amiot1600
bergamot1600
butter pear1600
dew-pear1600
greening1600
mollart1600
roset1600
wax pear1600
bottle pear1601
gourd-pear1601
Venerian pear1601
musk pear1611
rose pear1611
pusill1615
Christian1629
nutmeg1629
rolling pear1629
surreine1629
sweater1629
amber pear1638
Venus-pear1648
horse-pear1657
Martin1658
russet1658
rousselet1660
diego1664
frith-pear1664
maudlin1664
Messire Jean1664
primate1664
sovereign1664
spindle-pear1664
stopple-pear1664
sugar-pear1664
virgin1664
Windsor pear1664
violet-pear1666
nonsuch1674
muscat1675
burnt-cat1676
squash pear1676
rose1678
Longueville1681
maiden-heart1685
ambrette1686
vermilion1691
admiral1693
sanguinole1693
satin1693
St. Germain pear1693
pounder pear1697
vine-pear1704
amadot1706
marchioness1706
marquise1706
Margaret1707
short-neck1707
musk1708
burree1719
marquis1728
union pear1728
Doyenne pear1731
Magdalene1731
beurré1736
colmar1736
Monsieur Jean1736
muscadella1736
swan's egg1736
chaumontel1755
St Michael's pear1796
Williams1807
Marie Louise1817
seckel1817
Bartlett1828
vergaloo1828
Passe Colmar1837
glou-morceau1859
London sugar1860
snow-pear1860
Comice1866
Kieffer pear1880
sand pear1880
sandy pear1884
snowy pear1884
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck App. Venus-peere, a Venus-peere.
1879 C. T. Lewis & C. Short Lat. Dict. Venerea pira, a kind of pear, Venus-pear.
Venus's basin n. the wild teasel, Dipsacus sylvestris.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Dipsacaceae (teasel and allies) > [noun]
teasela1300
wokethistlea1400
fuller's teasel?c1425
fawthistle1483
Venus's basin1551
card thistle1578
Venus's bath1578
fuller's weed1587
fuller's herb1593
fuller's thistle1601
fuller's thorn1601
Venus' laver1601
shepherd's rod1633
shepherd's staff1760
manweed1829
Venus's cup1855
1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. O ivv Dipsacos, called in latin labrum veneris: that is venus basin, because it holdeth alwayes water.
1578 [see Venus's bath n.]. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 1006 Teasell is called..Carde Teasell, and Venus Bason.
1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ Venus-bason, Dipsacus vulgaris.
1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants Venus Bason, Veneris labrum, so named..from the hollows formed by the united bases of the leaves being usually filled with water, that was used..to remove warts and freckles.
Venus's bath n. = Venus's basin n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Dipsacaceae (teasel and allies) > [noun]
teasela1300
wokethistlea1400
fuller's teasel?c1425
fawthistle1483
Venus's basin1551
card thistle1578
Venus's bath1578
fuller's weed1587
fuller's herb1593
fuller's thistle1601
fuller's thorn1601
Venus' laver1601
shepherd's rod1633
shepherd's staff1760
manweed1829
Venus's cup1855
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 522 Called in..Englishe, Fullers Teasel, Carde Thistell, and Venus bath or Bason.
1855 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. III. 169 Wild Teazel..is still often called Venus's Bath.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1208/1 Venus' bath, Dipsacus sylvestris: so named from water collecting in the connate bases of the opposite leaves.
Venus's comb n. the shepherd's needle, Scandix Pecten-Veneris.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > shepherd's needle
pookneedlea1425
shepherd's needle1562
needle chervil1578
wild chervil1578
lady's comb1597
Venus needle1597
Venus's comb1597
pink needle1611
crow-needle1733
needle1793
Adam's Needle1872
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 884 Pecten Veneris, siue Scandix. Shepheards Needle, or Venus combe.
1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ Venus-Comb.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Scandyx, venus comb... The flower is of the rosaceous kind, consisting of several petals, which are arranged in a circular order on a cup.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xvii. 245 Venus's Comb is remarkable for long processes or beaks terminating the seeds.
1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants Venus' Comb, from the slender tapering beaks of the seed-vessels being set together like the teeth of a comb.
Venus's cup n. Venus's basin.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Dipsacaceae (teasel and allies) > [noun]
teasela1300
wokethistlea1400
fuller's teasel?c1425
fawthistle1483
Venus's basin1551
card thistle1578
Venus's bath1578
fuller's weed1587
fuller's herb1593
fuller's thistle1601
fuller's thorn1601
Venus' laver1601
shepherd's rod1633
shepherd's staff1760
manweed1829
Venus's cup1855
1855 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. III. 69 Wild Teazel..is still often called..Venus's Cup.
Venus's flytrap n. the North American marsh-plant Dionæa muscipula.
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1776 Ann. Reg. 1775 ii. 93 A Description of a newly discovered Sensitive Plant, called Dionæa Muscipula, or Venus's Fly-trap.
1857 A. Gray First Lessons Bot. (1866) 171 The Venus's Fly-trap..growing where it is always sure of all the food a plant can need.
1867 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings (1870) vii. 148 The leaf of the Venus' fly-trap of North America, closing together on its prey by turning on its mid-rib as on a hinge.
Venus's navelwort n. (a) the pennywort, Cotyledon Umbilicus; (b) one or other species of annual plants belonging to the genus Omphalodes, esp. O. linifolia.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Boraginaceae (bugloss and allies) > [noun]
ribeOE
hound's-tonguec1000
ox-tonguea1325
rotheren tongue?a1350
buglossa1400
dog's tongue?a1425
lungwort1538
anchusa1548
sheep's tongue1552
cowslip of Jerusalem1578
Our Lady's milkwort1578
pulmonaria1578
sage of Jerusalem1578
wild comfrey1578
maiden-lips1589
bugloss cowslip1597
viper's bugloss1597
viper's herb1597
ribbie1607
lithospermon1646
wall bugloss1650
lady's glove1668
Venus's navelwort1678
spotted comfrey1688
cynogloss1705
Jerusalem sage1736
lawn1778
Mertensia1836
stickseed1843
Virginian cowslip1856
bluebell1858
gooseberry fool1858
Jerusalem cowslip1866
borage-wort1882
echium1883
rose noble1886
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Crassulaceae (stonecrop and allies) > [noun] > navelwort
pennywortc1300
wall penny-grassa1400
navelwortc1450
wall penny grass1562
Venus' navel1592
hipwort1597
sea-navel1597
sea-navelwort1597
sea-pennywort1597
Venus' garden1597
cotyledon1601
kidneywort1640
Venus's navelwort1678
penny pie1707
acetabulum1727
penny leaf1782
pancakes1882
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Venus Navelwort,..a Plant of Venus, esteemed of great use;..otherwise called Wall Penywort, and Kidneywort.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Omphalodes Low Vernal Venus Navel-wort, with a Comfry-leaf, or Lesser Borage.
1767 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener 51 Hardy annual flower seeds:..lobels, catchfly, Venus navel wort, dwarf poppy.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 812/1 Omphalodes;..several species are grown in English gardens, under the name of Venus's Navelwort.
1882 Garden 10 June 411/3 Small bouquets of pink Brier Roses with Venus's Navelwort.
Venus's pride n. U.S. (see quot.).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > woodruff > allied flowers
woodruff1597
squinancy-wort1713
houstonia1764
quinsy wort1799
Venus's pride1845
bouvardia1846
Quaker ladies1871
1845–50 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. (new ed.) 143 The Houstonia cærulea..is known by different common names; as Innocence, Venus's Pride, and Blue Houstonia.
Venus's slipper n. the lady's slipper, Cypripedium Calceolus.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids
satyrionOE
bollockwort?a1300
sanicle14..
bollock?a1425
martagon1548
orchis1559
dogstones1562
hare's-ballocks1562
stone1562
bollock grass1578
dog's cods1578
dog's cullions1578
double-leaf1578
fly-orchis1578
goat's cullions1578
goat's orchis1578
priest's pintle1578
twayblade1578
bee-orchis1597
bifoil1597
bird's nest1597
bird's orchis1597
butterfly orchis1597
fenny-stones1597
gelded satyrion1597
gnat satyrion1597
humble-bee orchis1597
lady's slipper1597
sweet ballocks1597
two-blade1605
cullions1611
bee-flower1626
fly-flower1640
man orchis1670
musk orchis1670
moccasin flower1680
gnat-flower1688
faham tea1728
Ophrys1754
green man orchis1762
Arethusa1764
honey flower1771
cypripedium1775
rattlesnake plantain1778
Venus's slipper1785
Adam and Eve1789
lizard orchis179.
epidendrum1791
Pogonia?1801
Vanda1801
cymbidium1815
Oncidium1822
putty-root1822
Noah's Ark1826
yellow moccasin1826
gongora1827
cattleya1828
green man1828
nervine1828
stanhopea1829
dove-flower1831
catasetum1836
Odontoglossum1836
Miltonia1837
letter plant1838
spread eagle1838
letter-leaf1839
swan-plant1841
orchid1843
disa1844
masdevallia1845
Phalaenopsis1846
faham1850
Indian crocus1850
moccasin plant1850
pleione1851
dove orchis1852
nerve root1854
Holy Ghost flower1862
basket-plant1865
lizard's tongue1866
mousetail1866
Sobralia1866
swan-neck1866
swanwort1866
Indian shoe1876
odontoglot1879
wreathewort1879
moth orchid1880
rattlesnake orchid1881
dendrobe1882
dove-plant1882
Madeira orchis1882
man orchis1882
swan-flower1884
slipper-orchid1885
slipper orchis1889
mayflower1894
scorpion orchid1897
moederkappie1910
dove orchid1918
monkey orchid1925
man orchid1927
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxvii. 424 It has more resemblance to a wooden shoe in form, and therefore is unworthy the title of Venus's Slipper, which Linnæus has bestowed upon it.
c. Zoology.† Venus purr n. Obsolete (see quot. and purr n.4). † Venus-winkle n. Obsolete (see quots. and cf. porcelain n. 3).
Venus-basket n. Venus's flower-basket.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Parazoa > phylum Porifera > class Hexactinellida > [noun] > member of genus Euplectella
Venus's flower-basket1872
Venus-basket1882
1882 Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 318 In some the form is constant and characteristic, as in the fairy-like Venus-basket (Euplectella).
Venus comb n. (also Venus's comb) (see quot.).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Muricidae > specific species of Murex
snipe-bill1713
snipe's-head1842
thorny woodcock1842
Venus comb1842
sea-purple1855
snipe-shell1889
1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 54/2 Murex Tribulus, Linn... This is the Venus's Comb of collectors, and when perfect is a most delicate and striking shell.
1864 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 616/2 The Venus Comb of the Indian seas is..a very..beautiful shell, with many long thin spines.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Veneridae
Venus-shell1589
hena1613
sea-snapple1658
clam1672
clamp1672
nun1678
purr?1711
Venus purr1713
Venus1777
quahog1781
palourde1823
littleneck1854
venerid1861
1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ Tab. 18/12 Purra Venerea,..White Venus Pur.
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Venus' purse n. Venus's flower-basket ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895).
Venus's cup n. (see quot.).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Parazoa > phylum Porifera > [noun] > member of > unspecified
Venus's cup1885
1885 A. Brassey In Trades 312 There were..grey sponges, sometimes called Venus's cups,—in shape not unlike coral Neptune's cups.
Venus's ear n. a sea-ear or ear-shell.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Holostomata > genus Haliotis > member of
ormer1637
sea-ear1681
Norman shell1703
klipkous1731
paua1846
abalone1850
Venus's ear1859
awabi1889
perlemoen1891
1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. Geoffry Hamlyn III. i. 11 They fell to gathering shells..like children... Alice took..Trochuses,..and ‘Venus-ears’, scarlet outside.
1880 I. L. Bird Unbeaten Tracks Japan II. 87 One urn and a large covered bowl are beautifully inlaid with Venus' ear.
Venus's fan n. a sea-fan, esp. Rhipodogorgia (Gorgonia) flabellum.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Alcyonaria > suborder Gorgonacea > member of
sea-fan1633
sea-willow1755
sea-whip1775
Venus's fan1855
1855 C. Kingsley Glaucus 33 The great stony Venus's fan which hangs in seamen's cottages, brought home from the West Indies.
1860 J. E. Worcester Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Baird) Venus's Fan,..the common name of much branched and reticulated polypes of the family Gorgoniæ.
Venus's flower-basket n. a glass-sponge of the genus Euplectella, esp. E. aspergillum.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Parazoa > phylum Porifera > class Hexactinellida > [noun] > member of genus Euplectella
Venus's flower-basket1872
Venus-basket1882
1872 Good Words 13 703 One of the most beautiful of all natural productions, the Euplectella, or ‘Venus's Flower-basket’.
1896 J. W. Kirkaldy & E. C. Pollard tr. J. E. V. Boas Text Bk. Zool. 121 The beautiful Philippine Venus's Flower-Basket (Euplectella aspergillum), which like several of its allies, lives at considerable depths.
Venus's girdle n. (see quots.).
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > palmistry > [noun] > mark on the hand > semicircular mark
Venus's girdle1653
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Ctenophora > class Tentacula > member of genus Cestus
Venus's girdle1870
1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie i. 49 Venus Girdle..is a Semicircle that begins between the fore-finger and the middle finger, and ends between the fourth finger and the little one.
1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. I. xvi. 114 In Cestum, or Venus' Girdle, ‘elongation takes place to an extraordinary extent’.
1896 J. W. Kirkaldy & E. C. Pollard tr. J. E. V. Boas Text Bk. Zool. 118 Cestus veneris (Venus's girdle), with body much compressed and elongated to a ligamentous form.
Venus-shell n. a bivalve mollusc belonging to the family Veneridæ or related species; a venus, murex, or cowry.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Veneridae
Venus-shell1589
hena1613
sea-snapple1658
clam1672
clamp1672
nun1678
purr?1711
Venus purr1713
Venus1777
quahog1781
palourde1823
littleneck1854
venerid1861
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Muricidae > member or parts of genus Murex
Venus-shell1589
burret1601
porphyry-shell1753
vulva1802
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Cypraeidae > member of (cowrie)
Venus-shell1589
Venus-winkle1601
wart-gowry?1711
nipple cowry1713
smallpox1759
cowrie1777
serpent's skull1795
Arabian cowrie1804
mouse1815
sea-louse1815
serpent's head1815
wasp1815
niggerhead1895
1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 1723 A sea snaile, or Venus shell, cochlea Veneris.
1615 J. Loiseau de Tourval tr. H. de Feynes Exact Surv. E. Indies 31 Their Venus-shells consist of certaine kind of earth or clay which hath remaind a 100 yeares in one place.
1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 121 The Venus-shells may justly be numbred among the rarest productions of the Sea.
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. vi. i. 137 Venus-Shell. Concha Veneris. Because beautiful.
1872 A. Domett Ranolf & Amohia vi. ii. 112 Exact as roseate streak for streak Some opened Venus-shell displays.
Venus's slipper n. (see quot.).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Nucleobranchiata > genus Carinaria > member of
Venus's slipper1836
1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 294/1 The shells of this genus [sc. Carinaria] were formerly known to collectors under the name of ‘Venus's Slipper’ and ‘Glass Nautilus’.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Cypraeidae > member of (cowrie)
Venus-shell1589
Venus-winkle1601
wart-gowry?1711
nipple cowry1713
smallpox1759
cowrie1777
serpent's skull1795
Arabian cowrie1804
mouse1815
sea-louse1815
serpent's head1815
wasp1815
niggerhead1895
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 253 The Porcellanes or Venus Winkles swimme above the water, and with their concavitie and hollow part which they set into the weather, helpe themselves in stead of sailes.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Veneria, a Scallop called a Purcelane or Venus-winkle.
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Venusn.2
/ˈviːnəs/, U.S. /ˈvinəs/ = Venice n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric from specific place > [noun]
irislams1375
westvale1383
hinderland1465
ypir?1517
Normandy1529
Ghentish1545
mant1575
Scots cloth1581
northerna1592
turquesques1594
Westphalia1612
nilla1614
phota1616
Norwich stuff1618
Venus1629
nicanee1652
East India1659
caffoy1678
Bengal1681
Mantua1699
coffoy1703
Chello1712
negannepaut1725
Russia drab1741
Wilton1744
toile de Jouy1784
sorting-cloth1847
rum-swizzle1851
sarong1858
Yokohama1879
Turkoman1881
Mexican1883
kanga1895
Milanese1926
leso1961
1629 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1624–9 (1909) 349 Cordage, wheat, Venus cloth.
1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 485/1 Rhus Cotinus, Venus Sumach, or Wild Olive.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 980/1 R. Cotinus, another South European species, called the Venus or Venetian Sumach, yields the yellow dye~wood called Young Fustic.
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