Lexicographical Neighbors of Sybow
Literary usage of Sybow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"ToJ. S., 25. I hae sworn by the Heavens to my Mary, The pedant swung his felon
cudgel round, . The Vowels. sybow [a young onion]. A lee dyke-side, ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"... or sybow. Allium fistulosum, L.—' In the old poets we find it ... or sybow.'
Gard. Chron. 1869, p. 8. Sycamine. ' In old authors the woodbine' (Prior, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1892)
"Burus praises its virtues in his " Epistle to M'Adam " :— "And when those legs
to guid warm kail Wi' welcome canna bear me, A lee dyke-aide, a sybow [onion] ..."
4. The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and Criticism on His by Robert Burns, James Currie (1831)
"And when those legs to guid, warm kifl, Wi' welcome canna bear me ; A lee dyke-side,
a sybow-tail, And barley-scone shall cheer me. ..."
5. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"ToJ. S., 25. I hae sworn by the Heavens to my Mary, The pedant swung his felon
cudgel round, . The Vowels. sybow [a young onion]. A lee dyke-side, ..."
6. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"... or sybow. Allium fistulosum, L.—' In the old poets we find it ... or sybow.'
Gard. Chron. 1869, p. 8. Sycamine. ' In old authors the woodbine' (Prior, ..."
7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1892)
"Burus praises its virtues in his " Epistle to M'Adam " :— "And when those legs
to guid warm kail Wi' welcome canna bear me, A lee dyke-aide, a sybow [onion] ..."
8. The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and Criticism on His by Robert Burns, James Currie (1831)
"And when those legs to guid, warm kifl, Wi' welcome canna bear me ; A lee dyke-side,
a sybow-tail, And barley-scone shall cheer me. ..."
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