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Definition of Quercine
1. pertaining to oaks [adj] - See also: oaks
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quercine
Literary usage of Quercine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Extracts from the Account Rolls of the Abbey of Durham, from the Original by Durham Cathedral, Joseph Thomas Fowler (1899)
"Item vj scale longe quercine, ... household vessels and furniture, gardening and
other tools, ij scale quercine, unus pannus ventr. ..."
2. The Cambrian Quarterly Magazine and Celtic Repertory (1832)
"In the latter, it is the decomposed animal matter; in the former, the decomposed
vegetable or quercine matter of the oak, probably its tannin, which proves ..."
3. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"... No concave vast repeats the tender hue That laves my milk-jug with celestial
blue. Me wretched! let me curr to quercine shades! ..."
4. ... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1892)
"... No concave vast repeats the tender hue That laves my milk-jug with celestial
blue ! Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! ..."
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