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Eglantine

Eglantine \Eg"lan*tine\, n. [F. ['e]glantine, fr. OF. aiglent brier, hip tree, fr. (assumed) LL. acuculentus, fr. a dim. of L. acus needle; cf. F. aiguille needle. Cf. Aglet.] (Bot.)

  1. A species of rose ( Rosa Eglanteria), with fragrant foliage and flowers of various colors.

  2. The sweetbrier ( R. rubiginosa).

    Note: Milton, in the following lines, has applied the name to some twining plant, perhaps the honeysuckle.

    Through the sweetbrier, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine.
    --L'Allegro, 47. ``In our early writers and in Gerarde and the herbalists, it was a shrub with white flowers.''
    --Dr. Prior.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
eglantine

"sweet briar," c.1400, from French églantine, from Old French aiglent "dog rose," from Vulgar Latin *aquilentus "rich in prickles," from Latin aculeus "spine, prickle," diminutive of acus "needle" (see acuity).

Wiktionary
eglantine

n. A Eurasian rose, (taxlink Rosa eglanteria species noshow=1), having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, pink flowers and red hips

WordNet
eglantine

n. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips [syn: sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, Rosa eglanteria]

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Eglantine

Eglantine may refer to:

  • Eglantine rose (Rosa rubiginosa), also "Sweet briar"
Eglantine (song)

"Eglantine" is a song written by Robert and Richard Sherman for the 1971 Walt Disney musical film Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Professor Emelius Browne (played by David Tomlinson) sings the song in an attempt to persuade his student witch, Miss Eglantine Price (played by Angela Lansbury), to join forces with him. Brown tells Price:

Usage examples of "eglantine".

Indeed, Alienor had competition for that honor at this moment, for Duncan halted a few paces away to address Eglantine.

Eglantine noted the exchange and glared at Duncan before forcibly escorting Alienor from view.

And Alienor had seen Eglantine eyeing him with interest the day before.

She tapped her toe impatiently, wondering why Duncan persisted in talking about old and withered Eglantine when she, ripe and lovely Alienor, was directly before him.

Hall-Sun in that ancient garment, which fell straight and stiff down to her ancles as she stepped lightly and slowly along, her head crowned with a garland of eglantine.

The arche of which doore compassing like a halfe cyrcle, was wrought curiouslye and imbowed, and as it were bounde about with laces like beads of brasse, some round, and some like Eglantine berries of a reddish couler, hanging downe after an auncient manner, and foulded and turned in among the tender stalkes.

She had dight her what she could to welcome his return from the hunting, and had set a wreath of meadow-sweet on her red hair, and a garland of eglantine about her girdlestead, and left her feet naked after the pool of the stream, and had turned the bezels of her finger-rings outward, for joy of that meeting.

Battle of the Togati and the Town--Raff--A Night--Scene in the High-Street, Oxford--Description of the Combatants-- Attack of the Gownsmen upon the Mitre--Evolutions of the Assailants--Manoeuvres of the Proctors and Bull--Dogs-- Perilous Condition of Blackmantle and his Associates, Eglantine, Echo, and Transit--Snug Retreat of Lionise--The High-- Street after the Battle--Origin of the Argotiers, and Invention of Cant--phrases--History of the Intestine Wars and Civil Broils of Oxford, from the Time of Alfred--Origin of the late Strife--Ancient Ballad--Retreat of the Togati-- Reflections of a Freshman--Black Matins, or the Effect of late Drinking upon early Risers--Visit to Golgotha, or the Place of Sculls--Lecture from the Big--Wigs--Tom Echo receives Sentence of Rustication 246 TOWNE AND GOWNE 263 THE STAGE COACH, OR THE TRIP TO BRIGHTON.

That sunny morn after their celebration, when Eglantine was rethatching the weaknesses of the roof, someone cried of ships.

The Eglantine flautist continued to play, no less merry with this new entertainment, and the singer took up a tambor while the tumblers threw tricks.

And then Lord Chavaise called for a stamping rhythm with timbales and finger drums, and I danced with his lover from Eglantine House, the agile youth who had tumbled for us, and I kept the rhythm and was grateful for the lessons Delaunay had foisted upon me.

Eglantine caught himself on his hands, rolling and bounding to his feet.

She laid the contents of one of the pouches on her knees to sort it, sheltering the light petals from the breeze: eglantine and wild rose, made pale by age.

Heartly and Eglantine had, we found, been sufficiently long in Bath to become very able instructors to Transit and myself in all that related to the haute class, and old Barnaby Blackstrap was an equally able guide to every description of society, from the mediums down to the strange collections of vagrant oddities which are to be found in the back Janes and suburbs of the city of Bath.

At dinner we were joined by Horace Eglantine and Bob Transit, from the first of whom we learned, that a grand fancy ball was to take place at the Argyll Rooms in the course of the ensuing week, under the immediate direction of four fashionable impures, and at the expense of General Trinket, a broad-shouldered Milesian, who having made a considerable sum by the commissariat service, had returned home to spend his Peninsular pennies among the Paphian dames of the metropolis.