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holly
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Word definitions for holly in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN bush ▪ The last one flipped Agnes into a holly bush . ▪ Next step you would think is to go to the garden centre and look for holly bushes with boy and girl names? ▪ The holly bush went to give the cameras a clearer view. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Holm \Holm\ (h[=o]m; 277), n. [OE., prob. from AS. holen holly; as the holly is also called holm. See Holly .] (Bot.) A common evergreen oak, of Europe ( Quercus Ilex ); -- called also ilex , and holly .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., earlier holin (mid-12c.), shortening of Old English holegn "holly," from Proto-Germanic *hulin- (cognates: Old Saxon, Old High German hulis , Old Norse hulfr , Middle Dutch huls , Dutch, German hulst "holly"), cognate with Middle Irish cuilenn ...
Usage examples of holly.
The boldness of his entrance into their holly of holies, his affrontery, the ease with which he had taken their prisoner from them had impressed them, while the fact that Sobito, a witch-doctor, had fled from him in terror had assured them of his supernatural origin.
A manufactory for making candied roots of the Sea Holly was established at Colchester, by Robert Burton, an apothecary, in the seventeenth century, as they were considered both antiscorbutic, and excellent for health.
It is the fruit of a mistletoe that loves only certain treesapple, alder, hazel, holly and willow, elder, oak, banksia and elm, birch and blackthorn.
Judith MacDonald, Susan Hunt and her sister Holly, the Boise gang, and many others, for their thoughtful gifts of wine, drawings, rosaries, chocolate, Celtic music, soap, statuary, pressed heather from Culloden, handkerchiefs with echidnas, Maori pens, English teas, garden trowels, and other miscellanea meant to boost my spirits and keep me writing far past the point of exhaustion.
This, as far as we could judge from the accounts of foresters, was somewhere in the Gullet dingle among a thicket of hollies above the Dead Oaks, and where tradition says Sire John Oldcastle lay hid during three days when our house at Birtsmereton was searched by the bloodhounds of the Archbishop Arundel, and even our secret room in the pannelled chamber was considered to be unsafe.
Holly smiled back, blonde and serene, her beauty given an extraordinary dimension by those particoloured eyes, one blue, the other a startling violet.
With healthy provers, who have taken the Sea Holly experimentally in toxical doses of varying strength the sexual energies and instincts became always depressed.
Holly had thought that Rellie and I might fancy one another, but Rellie had never been more than coolly courteous to me.
Holly, had thought that Rellie and I might fancy one another, but Rellie had never been more than coolly courteous to me.
First General Scalene, then Commander Root, and now Holly and Artemis Fowl.
Holly brought him hither, or he brought Holly, because of an ancient, lying screed that Amenartas wrote upon a sherd, which from age to age had passed down in his race, urging some descendant of her blood to find me out and slay me, for this Egyptian fool thought that I could be slain.
All over Erith, in hovels and bothies, in cottages and crofts, in marketplaces, smithies, and workshops, in barracks, taverns, malt-houses, and inns, in manor houses, stately homes, and Towers, in halls and keeps, castles and palaces, they set holly garlands on rooftrees, ivy festoons around inglenooks, sprays of mistletoe above the doors and strobiled wreaths of pine and fir and spruce on every available projection.
He used energy from frustration and trepidation to channel strong spells of protection and discipline into the main gauche for Tinne Holly.
He kept his senses focused on Holly until he felt Tinne had achieved the proper contemplative state.
He lowered his eyelids and tried for the sensual look that Tinne Holly had demonstrated.