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Definition of Tusser
1. Noun. Oriental moth that produces brownish silk.
Generic synonyms: Saturniid, Saturniid Moth
Group relationships: Antheraea, Genus Antheraea
Definition of Tusser
1. tussah [n -S] - See also: tussah
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tusser
Literary usage of Tusser
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"In this tusser was brought up to ciati', and explained in a commentary (by one
Daniel ... Southey, who appears to have been a careful student of tusser (see ..."
2. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes : Authors by Samuel Austin Allibone (1896)
"tusser. At Midsummer down with the brambles and brakes, And after abroad with thy
... tusser. Sowe peason and beans in the wane of the moon: Who soweth them ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1855)
"THOMAS tusser'5 WILL. In 1846 Mr. Charles Clark, of Great Totham Hall, Essex,
well known and esteemed as a zealous antiquary, printed at his private press ..."
4. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"tusser, Good Husbandly Lesson*. Husbandly Fare. " Now leeks are in season, for
pottage full good, And spareth the milch cow, and purgeth the blood ; These ..."
5. The Indian Forester (1884)
"CE BESSEY (in the New York Tribune.}—Journal of Horticulture. About Rs. 89000 worth
of tusser cocoons, manufactured into silk, were exported from Hazaribagh ..."
6. The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh Century to the by Thomas Warton (1840)
"ABOUT the same time flourished Thomas tusser, one of our earliest didactic poets,
in a science of the highest utility, and which produced one of the most ..."
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