10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WINCOPIPE»
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and we so far from the station too ! " May not this be the name Bacon mistook for "
Wincopipe " ? I think it is just the name children or country people would give the
pimpernel, as it is always winking or peeping. The word is variously sounded in ...
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A New Universal, Technological, Etymological, and ...
WINCOPIPE. WIND. •on, author of a synopsis of British plants in Ray's method.) A
genus of plants, natives of New Holland : Order, Verbenacea;. WILT, wilt, v. i,. i,.;
U;,,, to fade, Germ, and Dutch.) To begin to wither; — p. a. to caase to begin to ...
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Hardwicke's Science-gossip
and we so far from the station too ! " May not this be the name Bacon mistook for "
Wincopipe " ? I think it is just the name children or country people would give the
pimpernel, as it is always winking or peeping. The word is variously sounded in ...
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A new universal etymological technological, and pronouncing ...
WILT— WINCOPIPE. WIND. son, author of a synopsis of British plants in Ray's
method.) A genas of plants, natives of New Holland : Order, Verbenacem. Wilt,
wilt, v. n. (welken, to fade, Germ, and Dutch.) To begin to wither; — v. a. to cause
to ...
John Craig (F.G.S.), 1849
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Encyclopaedia perthensis, or, Universal dictionary of the ...
WINCOPIPE. n. s. There is a small red flower in the stubblesielcls, which country
people call the wincopipe ; which if it opens in the morning you roay be sure a fair
day will follow. Bacon. WINCOT, two towns in Gloucestershire. (l.) * WIND.
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The pocket encyclopædia of natural phenomena, compiled ...
Wincopipe or Pimpernel Anagalis arvemis, solst. fl. June, July, and August ;
closes its flowers against rain. See Part the First. Wind changing about storms.
Wind often changes rapidly before and during storms, as if by some sudden
electrical ...
Thomas Furly Forster, Thomas Ignatius M. Forster, 1827
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The Letters of Edward Fitzgerald, Volume 3: 1867-1876
I am positively looking over Wesley's Iournal again! Another half Sheet! Why, the
old Days are returned. It is Vacation-time, anyhow, with you, and I think you will
like some of my Gossip. I must send you the little Wincopipe bit, which you will
see ...
Alfred McKinley Terhune, Edward Fitzgerald, Annabelle Burdick Terhune, 2014
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The New and Complete American Encyclopedia: Or, Universal ...
WINCOPIPE, n. s. a small red flower in the stubble- fields, which country people
call the wincopipe. WIND, n. s. 1. Wind is when any tract of air moves from the
place it is in, to any other, with an impetus that is sensible to us.— 2. Direction of
the ...
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The Perennial Calendar, and Companion to the Almanack; ...
... flowers muc earlie r or later according to the state of the weather. Lord B-acon
mentions a small red flower, growing in stubble fields, called by the country
people Wincopipe, probably the Alnagallis arvensis, which, if it opens in the
morning, ...
Thomas FORSTER (F.L.S.), 1824
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The new statistical account of Scotland
The plants most frequently found in the arable ground are, the sorrel, Itumex
acetosella, sealbhag, thistle, carduus, cluaran, chick- weed, mouse-ear,
cerastium, horse-tail, equisetum, and wincopipe. The island of Lewis is a full
century behind ...
