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Definition of Little barley
1. Noun. Annual barley native to western North America and widespread in southern United States and tropical America.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Little Barley
Literary usage of Little barley
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Ballads: Historical and Narrative, with Some of Modern Date by Thomas Evans (1810)
"THE little barley-CORN : Whose properties and vertues here Shall plainly to the
world appeare; To make you merry all the yeere." To tlie tune of Stingo. ..."
2. The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review by John Henry Newman, James Shergold Boone (1811)
"... And talk of law.fuits o'er a can With this little barley-corn. " It makes a
man that write cannot To make you large indentures, ..."
3. The British Critic: A New Review (1811)
"There's no fuch fluff to pafs thc'tim*. A$ the little barley-corn. : '! • " 'Twill
make a weeping willow laugh, And foon incline to ..."
4. Journal of Three Years' Residence in Abyssinia: In Furtherance of the by Samuel Gobat, Samuel Lee (1847)
"The people of this poor village only gave us a little barley-bread; which we
shared with our beasts, to whom they had given nothing. ..."
5. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1888)
"John Whelan, Brudenell and Lyndoch, Renfrew : There is very little barley sown.
The grain is good in quality, but in yield is below the average. ..."
6. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"little barley (Hordeum pusillum). XI Culms six to fifteen inches tall, smooth,
erect or decumbent at the base. Sheaths loose, smooth, shorter than the ..."
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