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hawthorn
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But now, alas! your hawthorn bowers All desolate we see! ▪ In pearls and rubies rich the hawthorns show, While through the ice the crimson berries glow. ▪ Long whips of hawthorn arched over and helped to shut out the barely lightening ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus [syn: haw ]
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 587 Housing Units (2000): 220 Land area (2000): 1.107734 sq. miles (2.869019 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.107734 sq. miles (2.869019 sq. km) FIPS code: 33216 Located within: Pennsylvania ...
Usage examples of hawthorn.
Her cuz Whitey Hawthorn lay with his head half-severed from his body, his jugular ripped open, blood puddled under his neck.
The garden, longer than wide, ran between two mud walls with espaliered apricots, to a hawthorn hedge that separated it from the field.
Tongue Hawkbit, Autumnal Hawkbit, Rough Hawkweed, Wall Hawkweed, Wood Hawkweed, Mouse-Ear Hawthorn Heartsease Hedge-Hyssop Hedge Mustard Heliotrope Hellebore, Black Hellebore, False Hellebore, Green Hellebore, White Hemlock Hemlock, Water Hemp, Enc.
Where jocund nature smiles In all her boon attire, And roams the deeply-tangled wilds Of hawthorn and sweet-brier.
He is all against life, meaning the thud of the heart in venery, the savour of claret, the clamorous morsels of spring in the nest you by chance uncover, hawthorn and goldenrod, good witty lechery in the company of men, the green waving tree, tough-boled, of the body.
From where I was standing I could see the foaming white water-fall, the wooden foot-bridge spanning it beside the high fortress bridge, the broad calm stretch of river beyond the waterfall, and the rocky banks of Smotrich overgrown with yellow lungwort and hawthorn.
The dappled swallow left the pool, The stars were blinking owre the hill, As I met amang the hawthorns green The lovely lass of Preston Mill.
A rutted lane ran toward it, between hawthorn hedges twined with dog-roses.
Some of laurel, and some of oakes keen, Some of hawthorn, and some of the woodbind, And many more which I had not in mind.
Beyond the screen of hawthorn, holly, myrtle, yaupon, and sawvines, Wash caught occasional glimpses of huge tree trunks rising from ages-deep leaf-mould that was too shaded to support low-growing plants.
On it stood a modest early-nineteenth-century villa, to whose sand-yellow stucco clung, half concealed by red-blowing hawthorn, the enamel sign of the ballet school.
But what lady of stature, what Captain Hawthorn, and what had Vant warned Brier about?
Singers, scrollsmen and randon cadets crowded into the room, listening as Brier Iron-thorn made her report to the Director and Captain Hawthorn.
Removing the brigandine, they found the inside of the velvet-padded armour covered in small droplets of wet blood, looking not unlike the hips and haws which decorate rose briars and hawthorns in the autumn.
The westering sun tinted the sky with evening colors of dusty gold and pale violet, flaming the woodland greens and burnishing the boles of towering chestnut and hawthorn with a gleam like bronze.