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Definition of Filberd
1. filbert [n -S] - See also: filbert
Lexicographical Neighbors of Filberd
Literary usage of Filberd
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Register, and Repository of Fugitive Poetry for (1807)
"THE filberd TREE.- A RUSTIC PLAINT. BY T. PARK, ESQ. ... To my neat cot it gave
a name, A filberd was my favourite tree ; Who saw it prais'd it into fame, ..."
2. The American Gardener: A Treatise on the Situation, Soil, and Laying Out of by William Cobbett (1854)
"filberd.—This is a sort of Nut, oblong in shape, very thin in the shell, ...
The filberd is a tall one, and will, under favourable circumstances, ..."
3. Time's Telescope for ...; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack (1821)
"Hazel-nuts are now ripe; and the filberd- tree is laden with its agreeable ...
Who saw it, praised it into fame, A filberd was my favourite tree; ..."
4. Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"Instead of flowers [of the filberd] hug down catkins, aglets or blowings, slender
anu well compact; ..."
5. Transactions and Collections by American Antiquarian Society (1860)
"Easel.' For sore Mouths, Falling of the Pallat. filberd, both with hairy husks
upon the nuts, and setting hollow from the nut, and fill'd with a kind of ..."
6. New-England's Rarities Discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and by John Josselyn, Edward Tuckerman (1865)
"For fore Mouths, falling of the Pallat. filberd, both with hairy husks upon the
Nuts, and fet- ting hollow from the Nut, and fill'd with a kind of water of ..."
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