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Definition of Bayberries
1. bayberry [n] - See also: bayberry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bayberries
Literary usage of Bayberries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"From bayberries to Oaks, Elms and Nettles. if bayberries. The fourth order includes
but a single family, of which two species grow in Minnesota—the bayberry ..."
2. Ruth of Boston: A Story of the Massachusetts Bay Colony by James Otis (1910)
"I have already said that we stew out a kind of vegetable tallow from bayberries
with which to make candles, and this same grease, when boiled with lye as if ..."
3. Vital English by Charles Ralph Taylor, Louise K. Morss (1919)
"When several bushels of bayberries were collected the candle-dipping began a
great kettle was partly filled with water several quarts of bayberries were ..."
4. The Birds of Essex County, Massachusetts by Charles Wendell Townsend (1905)
"Here is the best place to find his food records, namely, his ejected pellets, in
which cranberries and bayberries, so common in the dunes, are prominent. ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer and by Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Great Britain Court of Exchequer (1837)
"Thirty-four bales containing 90 cwt. bayberries, duty 90 cwt. at 2s., 91. (Dated)
9th August 1834." This entry being checked and signed by the proper ..."
6. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"The Myrtle Warbler thrives through the cold winters chiefly on a diet of bayberries,
while all the other members of this family seek more genial climes, ..."
7. The Peterkin Papers by Lucretia Peabody Hale (1914)
"It was strange how many bayberries it ... The little boys had helped him, and he
had gathered as much as a bushel of bayberries. He had put them in water, ..."
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