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Leave old Welsh wood
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willow
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English welig "willow," from Proto-Germanic *wel- (cognates: Old Saxon wilgia , Middle Dutch wilghe , Dutch wilg ), probably from PIE *wel- (3) "to turn, roll," with derivatives referring to curved, enclosing objects, cognate with Greek helix (see volvox ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES pussy willow COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN tree ▪ The gently wavering fronds of a willow tree . ▪ She moved from one willow tree to the next, forcing them all to share the torment she endured. ▪ It all began when a ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A willow is any of the several hundred species of deciduous trees and shrubs in the genus Salix . Willow or willows may also refer to:
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 1658 Housing Units (2000): 1530 Land area (2000): 684.817388 sq. miles (1773.668818 sq. km) Water area (2000): 8.042330 sq. miles (20.829537 sq. km) Total area (2000): 692.859718 sq. miles (1794.498355 sq. km) FIPS code: 85280 Located ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus ''Salix'', in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere. 2 (context cricket colloquial English) A cricket bat 3 (context baseball slang ...
Usage examples of willow.
The willow has flourished by sending deep roots into the earth under the acequia, a small water ditch.
It had been mixed with yarrow, agrimony, willow, and elder for cleansing and magical protection.
Cottonwoods, with an occasional willow, form the arborescent growth of the valley of the Verde proper, although on some of the principal tributaries and at a little distance from the river groves of other kinds of trees are found.
The arborescent growth consists of sparsely distributed cottonwoods and willows, closely confined to the river bottoms.
Willow, Questor, Abernathy, Bunion, and Parsnip had risked themselves for him time and time again.
Del had found at Willow Creek Pass, and the story Ned Buntline had told of encountering a solitary mountain man up there who handed Buntline his life.
The three of them clumped along for forty yards, crossed the highroad, and with the wizard leading, slid and leaped down the side of a bush-dotted hill and in among a thicket of willows.
It was a cool, glistening patch in the shade of old weeping willows, and forcing a way through the clumps of weeds, preening and splashing themselves, swam a couple of snow-white, red-beaked geese.
Perhaps he saunters into a country church-yard, and there finds amongst the rank grass and moss-grown and neglected memorials of the silent multitude, one trim and well-tended monument, uninvaded by cryptogamia, free from all stain of the weather, and the surrounding grassy sward neatly mown and fenced in, it may be, with budding willow branches or a circle of clipped box.
After that, whenever dark masses of clouds began to roll up in the sky and the wind commenced to sough mournfully through the willows, no power on earth could prevent the darkey from pulling in shore and staying there until the storm had passed.
Bright on, or Bath, or Dilling ham, becoming the spinster aunt, wearing the willow forever.
Tim Willows remained alone in his room save for the companionship of Dopey and Mr.
Jason suddenly reacted, giving Jenna an embarrassed look before stepping aside to reveal Willow.
A tall weeping willow tree bowed forward gracefully to enshroud them in its protective arms.
There are many unpleasanter ways of spending a warm autumn afternoon than standing under the willows of Fleam Dyke watching the pools of a river for the smoke of disturbed mud and the wavering silver which is an eel.