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woodbine
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Woodbine , also known as the Anders Rasmussen House, is a historic early-20th-century estate estate located at New Albany , Floyd County, Indiana . It was built in 1920 for Anders Rasmussen, who owned a florist business in New Albany and once served as ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English wudubinde, a climbing plant, from wudu "wood" (see wood (n.)) + binde "wreath," related to bind (v.). Used of various climbing plants on three continents.
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Population (2000): 1218 Housing Units (2000): 520 Land area (2000): 2.242800 sq. miles (5.808826 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 2.242800 sq. miles (5.808826 sq. km) FIPS code: 83868 Located within: Georgia ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 Any of several climbing vines, especially the honeysuckle and the Virginia creeper 2 # Species of ''Lonicera'' (honeysuckle), particularly: 3 ## (taxlink Lonicera periclymenum species noshow=1), (vern: European honeysuckle), (vern: common honeysuckle) ...
Usage examples of woodbine.
The gravedigger had been steeling himself for a dull afternoon of ten Woodbines, five cups of tea and a solo darts tournament, but a faulty freezer in the cemetery store-cum-restroom, and fate, had brought entertainment in the shape of the young electrician who was, realized the gravedigger, as green as he was cabbage-looking.
And towardes the plaine, it was couered with Hamberries, Hasels, Fylbirds, prune, print, or priuet, and whitened with the flowers thereof: by coulered Xeapie, beeing red towardes the north, and white against the Southe, Plane trees, Ashe trees, and such like, spredding and stretching out their braunches: fowlded and imbraced with the running of Hunnisuckles or woodbines, and Hoppes, which made a pleasaunt and coole shade.
The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Aubrey turned away, having said the oh so familiar last words over his old shipmate Henry Woodbine, and he had not walked the length of the deck before the look-out hailed a signal from Ringle, far away in the clear north-north-west.
Tom Woodbine, both of whom seemed unimaginably rich to Sloat, were roommates.
By alder copses sliding slow, Knee-deep in flowers came gentler Yeo And paused awhile her locks to twine With musky hops and white woodbine, Then joined the silver-footed band, Which circled down my golden sand, By dappled park, and harbor shady, Haunt of love-lorn knight and lady, My thrice-renowned sons to greet, With rustic song and pageant meet.
Washington plant, Leon Turpin met the deep-space explorer Frank Woodbine, about whom he had heard so much.
Woodbine did not seem to be bothered, but Leon Turpin felt slightly irritable.
TD engineers Turpin managed to kneel down and crawl tremulously after Woodbine.
Woodbine lifted Turpin to his feet and set him upright on the grass-covered soil.
Leon Turpin watched, Frank Woodbine and Stanley studied the machinery which propelled the craft.
It seemed entirely possible that in a town such as this, a person might walk along the riverbank one bright afternoon and simply disappear, swallowed up in a tangle of chokeberry and woodbine.
It was but about a mile and a half to Broxton over the opposite slope, and their road wound very pleasantly along lanes and across fields, where the pale woodbines and the dog-roses were scenting the hedgerows, and the birds were twittering and trilling in the tall leafy boughs of oak and elm.
Over the wall from the highway was a fringe of young trees and bushes, and here and there the wall itself was covered by a mass of blossoming woodbine that filled all the warm air far and near with its sweet summer odor.
When he'd gone and the room next door had mostly emptied, I looked down on the flags and the banners and the streamers and balloons and the razzamatazz with which Exhibition Park had met the challenge of Assiniboia Downs and Woodbine and thought of all that had happened on the journey across Canada, and I wondered whether I would find flat-footing round British racecourses in the rain a relaxation or a bore, wondered if I would go on doing it.