cedarn.

Brit.

/ˈsiːdə/, U.S.

/ˈsidər/

Forms: Old English ceder, cedor, Middle English–1500s cedre, (Middle English cedri), Middle English cedir, cedur, cedyr, ( cyder, cydyr, sydyr), 1500s ceder, 1500s– cedar.

Etymology: Middle English cedre, < Old French cedre, < Latin cedrus, < Greek κέδρος. (The Old French representation of cedrus would have been cierre.) Old English ceder was directly < Latin.

a. A well-known evergreen conifer, the Pinus Cedrus of Linnæus, Abies Cedrus, Cedrus Libani of other botanists, called Cedar of Lebanon from its most famous early locality.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > cedar and allies > [noun]

cedarc1000

cedar-treec1000

fir-cedar1601

white cedar1654

arbor vitae1664

Thuya1707

thuja1764

American arbor vitae1785

Honduras cedar1799

Cedrela1832

kawaka1832

deodar1842

stinking cedar1866

stinking yew1866

Alaska cedar1874

c1000 Ags. Ps. xxviii[ix]. 5 Se God brycð þa hean ceder on Libano.

a1300 Cursor Mundi 1379 Þe fader in cedre þou sal take, A tre of heght, þat has no make.

a1300 E.E. Psalter ciii. 16 Þe cedres of Yban Whilk he planted with his hand.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS) xvii. xxiii The cedre is moste hyȝe tre, lady and quene of all tren.

1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 282 Cedre, is a tree..so durable that yt rotteth neuer.

1560 Bible (Geneva) Song of Sol. i. 17 The beames of our house are cedars and our rafters of firre.

1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iv. iii. 46 Marcus we are but shrubs, no Cedars wee.

1724 G. Berkeley Proposal supplying Churches 12 Tall cedars, that sheltered their orange-trees from the north-west-wind.

c1854 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) ii. 140 To them the cedar was a portent, a grand and awful work of God.

b. The wood of this tree.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > cedar

cedara1400

cedar-wood1611

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 8007 Wandis..Of cydyr, pyne, and of cypress.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. ii. 10 Cedre may not, in Erthe ne in Watre, rote.

1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. xi The tymbre..Was halfe of Cedre as I reherse can.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 115 With smoak of burning Cedar scent thy Walls.

1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) Cedar is of so dry a nature, that it will not endure to be fastened with iron nails.

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess ii. 41 In halls Of Lebanonian cedar.

2. Applied to the genus Cedrus, or sub-genus of Abies, which contains beside the Cedar of Lebanon, the Mount Atlas or Silvery Cedar ( A. (or C.) atlantica) and the Deodara or Indian Cedar ( A. (or C.) Deodara). The distinguishing character of cedars consists in the evergreen leaves disposed, many together, in fascicles, and the erect cones with their carpels separating from the axis.

3. Applied, with or without distinguishing epithet, to various trees more or less resembling the true cedar: including species of Cedrela, Juniperus, Thuja, Cupressus, Pinus, etc.: e.g. Barbados cedar, Canary cedar, pencil-wood cedar, prickly cedar, Virginia red cedar, white cedar, which are species of Juniper; Barbados bastard cedar, Brazilian cedar, Chinese cedar, falsa cedar, Honduras cedar, Jamaica cedar, red Australian cedar, Singapore cedar, West Indian cedar, which are species of Cedrela; British Columbian cedar, Californian cedar, white cedar, which are Thujas; Bussaco cedar, Goa cedar, Oregon white cedar, Port Orford white cedar, which are Cypresses. bastard cedar n. in different countries, applied to species of Cedrela, Dysoxylon, Guazuma, Icica. The ‘cedar’ used for black lead pencils is the wood of Juniperus bermudiana and virginiana, which also yield oil of cedar. Also Cape cedar n. Widdringtonia juniperoides. Dominica cedar n. Bignonia Leucoxylon. incense cedar n. Libocedrus. Japan cedar n. Cryptomeria japonica. Queensland cedar n. Pentaceras australis. red Californian cedar n. Libocedrus decurrens. Russian cedar n. Pinus Cembra. water cedar n. Chamæcyparis.Bermuda cedar, East Indian cedar: see the first element.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > cedar and allies > [noun] > tree resembling

cedar1702

1702 R. Neve Apopiroscopy i. 26 Above all, is commended, the Oil of Cedar, or that of Juniper.

1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 128 Cedar Tree [Juniperus Barbadensis]..It has a reddish, not close but lax, odoriferous wood.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. The cedar brought from Barbadoes and Jamaica is a spurious sort. Cedar cups..are made out of the wood of the bastard cedar.

1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica i. ii. 13 The cedar [Cedrela odorata] and mahogany,..may be raised with little care in all the waste hilly lands.

1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) ii. 247 The wood of Juniperus virginiana is commonly used for ‘lead pencils’, under the name of Red Cedar.

1880 Handbk. S. Afr. (S. W. Silver & Co.) (ed. 3) 125 They are patches of Cape Cedar..and this is the only locality in which the tree is found.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

cedar beam n. Old English = tree n. 1a.

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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > [noun]

woodc725

treec825

cedar beamc1000

wood-plant1773

woody plant1830

maiden bark1831

muti1858

c1000 Ags. Ps. ciii[iv]. 16 Cwice ceder-beamas, þa ðu cuðlice sylfa gesettest.

1611 Bible (King James) 1 Kings vii. 2 With Cedar beames upon the pillars.

cedar canoe n.

ΚΠ

1836 W. Irving Astoria I. 154 A cedar canoe.

cedar forest n.

ΚΠ

1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. i. 22 The woodman's axe Opened the cedar forest to the sun.

cedar-nut n.

cedar parlour n.

ΚΠ

1878 J. Morley Diderot II. 48 The atmosphere of the cedar-parlour.

cedar-pencil n.

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society > communication > writing > writing materials > writing instrument > [noun] > pencil > wooden casing of pencil

cedar-pencil1869

1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxxvii. 398 A friend's cedar pencil in your pocket.

1879 Boy's Own Paper 18 Jan. 14/3 I generally carry a great many cedar pencils.

cedar pillar n.

ΚΠ

1611 Bible (King James) 1 Kings vii. 2 Foure rowes of Cedar pillars .

cedar-rail n.

ΚΠ

1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 151 Rough poles of the juniper, under the name of ‘cedar-rails’, are sent to New York.

cedar shade n.

ΚΠ

1828 F. D. Hemans Graves of Household in Records of Woman (ed. 2) 302 The Indian knows his place of rest, Far in the cedar shade.

cedar top n.

ΚΠ

1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Fij^v Ceader tops and hils, seeme burnisht gold.

cedar-tree n.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > cedar and allies > [noun]

cedarc1000

cedar-treec1000

fir-cedar1601

white cedar1654

arbor vitae1664

Thuya1707

thuja1764

American arbor vitae1785

Honduras cedar1799

Cedrela1832

kawaka1832

deodar1842

stinking cedar1866

stinking yew1866

Alaska cedar1874

c1000 Ags. Ps. xxviii[ix]. 5 Þæs Godes word brycþ cedor-treowu.

1611 Bible (King James) Num. xxiv. 6 As Cedar trees beside the waters.

1611 Bible (King James) Ezra iii. 7 Cedar trees from Lebanon.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 270 I pitch'd upon a..Cedar-Tree.

cedar-coloured adj.

ΚΠ

1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon i. 36 A cedar-coloured soil equally well-stapled.

cedar-like adj.

ΚΠ

1631 B. Jonson New Inne iii. i. 49 His tall And growing grauity so Cedar-like.

C2.

cedar apple n. a hard brown excrescence formed on cedar trees by various rusts.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with trees > fungal excrescence

punk knot1838

cedar apple1849

1849 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. II. 244 The cedar..is often covered at this season with what is termed here the cedar apple.

1883 W. Whitman Specimen Days in Specimen Days & Collect 87 These cedar-apples last only a little while..and soon crumble and fade.

cedar ball n.

ΚΠ

1889 Cent. Dict. Cedar-apple..[is] also called cedar-ball.

cedar-bird n. the American Wax-wing, Ampelis carolinensis, a species of Chatterer haunting cedar-trees.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ptilogonatidae > genus Bombycilla (waxwing) > bombycilla cedrorum (cedar-bird)

chatterer1731

cedar-bird1791

cherry-bird1869

1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina (1792) 288 Ampelis garrulus; crown bird or cedar bird.

1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1886) 7 A flock of cedar-birds comes.

1883 Cent. Mag. Sept. 686/2 Three nests of the cedar-bird..in a single orchard.

cedar chest n. U.S. a chest made of cedar-wood for the protection of clothing, etc., from moths and other insects.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling boxes

trussing coffera1387

lode-malea1400

gardeviance1459

trussing mail1485

trussing chest1540

trunk1609

portmanteau trunk1683

hair-trunk1693

mail-trunka1726

trunkie1728

trunk-mail1771

imperial1773

cedar chest1775

Noah's Ark1803

wardrobe trunk1815

dress case1819

yakdan1824

pitara1828

bullock-trunk1844

dress basket1857

Saratoga trunk1857

Saratoga1863

black jack1885

innovation trunk1912

1775 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1877) XIII. 178 A Pane of Looking Glass in the same Trunk or the Cedar Chest.

1891 ‘C. E. Craddock’ in Harper's Mag. Jan. 219/1 The simple furnishings—a cedar chest, a few garments.

1895 Cent. Mag. July 323/2 Cedar-chest and camphor-trunk and flowered band-box have been called upon to disgorge their treasures.

1910 J. Hart Vigilante Girl 219 A cedar chest full of finery made for a carnival dance.

cedar-closet n. U.S., a closet lined with cedar-wood.

ΚΠ

1866 E. E. Hale If, Yes & Perhaps (1868) 256 I was up in the cedar closet one day.

cedar cooper n. U.S. (see quot.)

ΚΠ

1832 D. J. Browne Sylva Americana 148 The superior fitness of this wood [sc. white cedar] for various household utensils, has given rise, in Philadelphia, to a distinct class of mechanics called cedar coopers.

cedar knob n. U.S. (knob n. 2).

ΚΠ

1838 B. Drake Tales & Sketches 33 He was a full grown Kentuckian, born on the cedar knobs of the Blue Licks.

cedar-lot n. U.S., a piece of land in a cedar swamp.

ΚΠ

1813 Massachusetts Spy 14 Apr. 4/4 To be sold..two Cedar Lots, lying in the Great Cedar Swamp.

cedar-nut n. the seed of Pinus Cembra.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible pods, seeds, leaves, or flowers > [noun] > other edible seeds > pine-seeds

pine nuteOE

pines1327

pineapple kernela1398

pineapple seed?1440

pignon1526

pineapple1560

pinyon1577

pine kernel1598

neoza1832

piñon1834

pignoli1841

cembra nut1842

pinyon1846

cedar-nut1863

pignolia1891

Indian nut1922

pit1947

1863 L. Atkinson Recoll. Tartar Steppes 57 Each lady having a plate in her hand filled with cedar nuts, which she was occupied in cracking and eating.

cedar-root n. U.S. (a plant-name).

ΚΠ

1805–9 J. J. Henry Campaign against Quebec 42 The cedar root was in plenty under our feet.

cedar-swamp n. North American a swamp in which the cedar is the prevailing tree.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > with trees

carrc1440

pine swamp1635

cedar-swamp1637

maple swamp1667

bay-swamp1741

bay-gall1775

bay1795

taiga1888

1637 in New Plymouth Col. Rec. (1855) I. 51 A parcell of land..betweene the two cedar swamps at Iland Creeke Pond.

1775 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 2nd ser. I. 233 At 2 o'clock I crossed the 3d pond and encamped in a cedar swamp.

1793 J. MacDonell Diary 18 June in C. M. Gates Five Fur Traders (1933) 81 A ditch..which nature seems to have made through the centre of a cedar Swamp.

1840 in Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. (1855) 6 291 Sandy ridges, with intervening swales, and cedar swamps.

1871 S. de Vere Americanisms (1872) 420 The Cedar Swamps..in the South are uniformly low grounds under water, and filled with cypresses.

1876 D. Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 6) xiv. 267 The pine-barrens and cedar-swamps of America.

1904 S. E. White Blazed Trail Stories vi. 87 The high beech-ridge..ended in a narrow cedar-swamp.

cedar-wood n. = sense 1b; also, cedar trees.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > cedar

cedara1400

cedar-wood1611

1611 Bible (King James) 1 Chron. xxii. 4 They of Tyre, brought much Cedar wood to Dauid.

1857 W. Chandless Visit Salt Lake I. v. 64 Cedar-wood is sprinkled thinly over the bluffs.

1887 Whitaker's Almanack 442 Among the chief exports of Costa Rica are tortoise-shell and cedar-wood.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	cedar
释义	cedarn. Brit. /ˈsiːdə/, U.S. /ˈsidər/ Forms: Old English ceder, cedor, Middle English–1500s cedre, (Middle English cedri), Middle English cedir, cedur, cedyr, ( cyder, cydyr, sydyr), 1500s ceder, 1500s– cedar. Etymology: Middle English cedre, < Old French cedre, < Latin cedrus, < Greek κέδρος. (The Old French representation of cedrus would have been cierre.) Old English ceder was directly < Latin. 1. a. A well-known evergreen conifer, the Pinus Cedrus of Linnæus, Abies Cedrus, Cedrus Libani of other botanists, called Cedar of Lebanon from its most famous early locality. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > cedar and allies > [noun] cedarc1000 cedar-treec1000 fir-cedar1601 white cedar1654 arbor vitae1664 Thuya1707 thuja1764 American arbor vitae1785 Honduras cedar1799 Cedrela1832 kawaka1832 deodar1842 stinking cedar1866 stinking yew1866 Alaska cedar1874 c1000 Ags. Ps. xxviii[ix]. 5 Se God brycð þa hean ceder on Libano. a1300 Cursor Mundi 1379 Þe fader in cedre þou sal take, A tre of heght, þat has no make. a1300 E.E. Psalter ciii. 16 Þe cedres of Yban Whilk he planted with his hand. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS) xvii. xxiii The cedre is moste hyȝe tre, lady and quene of all tren. 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 282 Cedre, is a tree..so durable that yt rotteth neuer. 1560 Bible (Geneva) Song of Sol. i. 17 The beames of our house are cedars and our rafters of firre. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iv. iii. 46 Marcus we are but shrubs, no Cedars wee. View more context for this quotation 1724 G. Berkeley Proposal supplying Churches 12 Tall cedars, that sheltered their orange-trees from the north-west-wind. c1854 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) ii. 140 To them the cedar was a portent, a grand and awful work of God. b. The wood of this tree. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > cedar cedara1400 cedar-wood1611 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 8007 Wandis..Of cydyr, pyne, and of cypress. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. ii. 10 Cedre may not, in Erthe ne in Watre, rote. 1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. xi The tymbre..Was halfe of Cedre as I reherse can. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 115 With smoak of burning Cedar scent thy Walls. View more context for this quotation 1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) Cedar is of so dry a nature, that it will not endure to be fastened with iron nails. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess ii. 41 In halls Of Lebanonian cedar. 2. Applied to the genus Cedrus, or sub-genus of Abies, which contains beside the Cedar of Lebanon, the Mount Atlas or Silvery Cedar ( A. (or C.) atlantica) and the Deodara or Indian Cedar ( A. (or C.) Deodara). The distinguishing character of cedars consists in the evergreen leaves disposed, many together, in fascicles, and the erect cones with their carpels separating from the axis. 3. Applied, with or without distinguishing epithet, to various trees more or less resembling the true cedar: including species of Cedrela, Juniperus, Thuja, Cupressus, Pinus, etc.: e.g. Barbados cedar, Canary cedar, pencil-wood cedar, prickly cedar, Virginia red cedar, white cedar, which are species of Juniper; Barbados bastard cedar, Brazilian cedar, Chinese cedar, falsa cedar, Honduras cedar, Jamaica cedar, red Australian cedar, Singapore cedar, West Indian cedar, which are species of Cedrela; British Columbian cedar, Californian cedar, white cedar, which are Thujas; Bussaco cedar, Goa cedar, Oregon white cedar, Port Orford white cedar, which are Cypresses. bastard cedar n. in different countries, applied to species of Cedrela, Dysoxylon, Guazuma, Icica. The ‘cedar’ used for black lead pencils is the wood of Juniperus bermudiana and virginiana, which also yield oil of cedar. Also Cape cedar n. Widdringtonia juniperoides. Dominica cedar n. Bignonia Leucoxylon. incense cedar n. Libocedrus. Japan cedar n. Cryptomeria japonica. Queensland cedar n. Pentaceras australis. red Californian cedar n. Libocedrus decurrens. Russian cedar n. Pinus Cembra. water cedar n. Chamæcyparis.Bermuda cedar, East Indian cedar: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > cedar and allies > [noun] > tree resembling cedar1702 1702 R. Neve Apopiroscopy i. 26 Above all, is commended, the Oil of Cedar, or that of Juniper. 1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 128 Cedar Tree [Juniperus Barbadensis]..It has a reddish, not close but lax, odoriferous wood. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. The cedar brought from Barbadoes and Jamaica is a spurious sort. Cedar cups..are made out of the wood of the bastard cedar. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica i. ii. 13 The cedar [Cedrela odorata] and mahogany,..may be raised with little care in all the waste hilly lands. 1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) ii. 247 The wood of Juniperus virginiana is commonly used for ‘lead pencils’, under the name of Red Cedar. 1880 Handbk. S. Afr. (S. W. Silver & Co.) (ed. 3) 125 They are patches of Cape Cedar..and this is the only locality in which the tree is found. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. cedar beam n. Old English = tree n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > [noun] woodc725 treec825 cedar beamc1000 wood-plant1773 woody plant1830 maiden bark1831 muti1858 c1000 Ags. Ps. ciii[iv]. 16 Cwice ceder-beamas, þa ðu cuðlice sylfa gesettest. 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Kings vii. 2 With Cedar beames upon the pillars. View more context for this quotation cedar canoe n. ΚΠ 1836 W. Irving Astoria I. 154 A cedar canoe. cedar forest n. ΚΠ 1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. i. 22 The woodman's axe Opened the cedar forest to the sun. cedar-nut n. cedar parlour n. ΚΠ 1878 J. Morley Diderot II. 48 The atmosphere of the cedar-parlour. cedar-pencil n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > writing instrument > [noun] > pencil > wooden casing of pencil cedar-pencil1869 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxxvii. 398 A friend's cedar pencil in your pocket. 1879 Boy's Own Paper 18 Jan. 14/3 I generally carry a great many cedar pencils. cedar pillar n. ΚΠ 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Kings vii. 2 Foure rowes of Cedar pillars . View more context for this quotation cedar-rail n. ΚΠ 1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 151 Rough poles of the juniper, under the name of ‘cedar-rails’, are sent to New York. cedar shade n. ΚΠ 1828 F. D. Hemans Graves of Household in Records of Woman (ed. 2) 302 The Indian knows his place of rest, Far in the cedar shade. cedar top n. ΚΠ 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Fij^v Ceader tops and hils, seeme burnisht gold. View more context for this quotation cedar-tree n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > cedar and allies > [noun] cedarc1000 cedar-treec1000 fir-cedar1601 white cedar1654 arbor vitae1664 Thuya1707 thuja1764 American arbor vitae1785 Honduras cedar1799 Cedrela1832 kawaka1832 deodar1842 stinking cedar1866 stinking yew1866 Alaska cedar1874 c1000 Ags. Ps. xxviii[ix]. 5 Þæs Godes word brycþ cedor-treowu. 1611 Bible (King James) Num. xxiv. 6 As Cedar trees beside the waters. View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) Ezra iii. 7 Cedar trees from Lebanon. View more context for this quotation 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 270 I pitch'd upon a..Cedar-Tree. b. cedar-coloured adj. ΚΠ 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon i. 36 A cedar-coloured soil equally well-stapled. cedar-like adj. ΚΠ 1631 B. Jonson New Inne iii. i. 49 His tall And growing grauity so Cedar-like. C2. cedar apple n. a hard brown excrescence formed on cedar trees by various rusts. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with trees > fungal excrescence punk knot1838 cedar apple1849 1849 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. II. 244 The cedar..is often covered at this season with what is termed here the cedar apple. 1883 W. Whitman Specimen Days in Specimen Days & Collect 87 These cedar-apples last only a little while..and soon crumble and fade. cedar ball n. ΚΠ 1889 Cent. Dict. Cedar-apple..[is] also called cedar-ball. cedar-bird n. the American Wax-wing, Ampelis carolinensis, a species of Chatterer haunting cedar-trees. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ptilogonatidae > genus Bombycilla (waxwing) > bombycilla cedrorum (cedar-bird) chatterer1731 cedar-bird1791 cherry-bird1869 1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina (1792) 288 Ampelis garrulus; crown bird or cedar bird. 1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1886) 7 A flock of cedar-birds comes. 1883 Cent. Mag. Sept. 686/2 Three nests of the cedar-bird..in a single orchard. cedar chest n. U.S. a chest made of cedar-wood for the protection of clothing, etc., from moths and other insects. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling boxes trussing coffera1387 lode-malea1400 gardeviance1459 trussing mail1485 trussing chest1540 trunk1609 portmanteau trunk1683 hair-trunk1693 mail-trunka1726 trunkie1728 trunk-mail1771 imperial1773 cedar chest1775 Noah's Ark1803 wardrobe trunk1815 dress case1819 yakdan1824 pitara1828 bullock-trunk1844 dress basket1857 Saratoga trunk1857 Saratoga1863 black jack1885 innovation trunk1912 1775 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1877) XIII. 178 A Pane of Looking Glass in the same Trunk or the Cedar Chest. 1891 ‘C. E. Craddock’ in Harper's Mag. Jan. 219/1 The simple furnishings—a cedar chest, a few garments. 1895 Cent. Mag. July 323/2 Cedar-chest and camphor-trunk and flowered band-box have been called upon to disgorge their treasures. 1910 J. Hart Vigilante Girl 219 A cedar chest full of finery made for a carnival dance. cedar-closet n. U.S., a closet lined with cedar-wood. ΚΠ 1866 E. E. Hale If, Yes & Perhaps (1868) 256 I was up in the cedar closet one day. cedar cooper n. U.S. (see quot.) ΚΠ 1832 D. J. Browne Sylva Americana 148 The superior fitness of this wood [sc. white cedar] for various household utensils, has given rise, in Philadelphia, to a distinct class of mechanics called cedar coopers. cedar knob n. U.S. (knob n. 2). ΚΠ 1838 B. Drake Tales & Sketches 33 He was a full grown Kentuckian, born on the cedar knobs of the Blue Licks. cedar-lot n. U.S., a piece of land in a cedar swamp. ΚΠ 1813 Massachusetts Spy 14 Apr. 4/4 To be sold..two Cedar Lots, lying in the Great Cedar Swamp. cedar-nut n. the seed of Pinus Cembra. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible pods, seeds, leaves, or flowers > [noun] > other edible seeds > pine-seeds pine nuteOE pines1327 pineapple kernela1398 pineapple seed?1440 pignon1526 pineapple1560 pinyon1577 pine kernel1598 neoza1832 piñon1834 pignoli1841 cembra nut1842 pinyon1846 cedar-nut1863 pignolia1891 Indian nut1922 pit1947 1863 L. Atkinson Recoll. Tartar Steppes 57 Each lady having a plate in her hand filled with cedar nuts, which she was occupied in cracking and eating. cedar-root n. U.S. (a plant-name). ΚΠ 1805–9 J. J. Henry Campaign against Quebec 42 The cedar root was in plenty under our feet. cedar-swamp n. North American a swamp in which the cedar is the prevailing tree. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > with trees carrc1440 pine swamp1635 cedar-swamp1637 maple swamp1667 bay-swamp1741 bay-gall1775 bay1795 taiga1888 1637 in New Plymouth Col. Rec. (1855) I. 51 A parcell of land..betweene the two cedar swamps at Iland Creeke Pond. 1775 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 2nd ser. I. 233 At 2 o'clock I crossed the 3d pond and encamped in a cedar swamp. 1793 J. MacDonell Diary 18 June in C. M. Gates Five Fur Traders (1933) 81 A ditch..which nature seems to have made through the centre of a cedar Swamp. 1840 in Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. (1855) 6 291 Sandy ridges, with intervening swales, and cedar swamps. 1871 S. de Vere Americanisms (1872) 420 The Cedar Swamps..in the South are uniformly low grounds under water, and filled with cypresses. 1876 D. Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 6) xiv. 267 The pine-barrens and cedar-swamps of America. 1904 S. E. White Blazed Trail Stories vi. 87 The high beech-ridge..ended in a narrow cedar-swamp. cedar-wood n. = sense 1b; also, cedar trees. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > cedar cedara1400 cedar-wood1611 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Chron. xxii. 4 They of Tyre, brought much Cedar wood to Dauid. View more context for this quotation 1857 W. Chandless Visit Salt Lake I. v. 64 Cedar-wood is sprinkled thinly over the bluffs. 1887 Whitaker's Almanack 442 Among the chief exports of Costa Rica are tortoise-shell and cedar-wood. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1000
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