Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The mountain-laurel, Kalmia latifolia.

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Examples

  • In both hands he took a cup of ivy-wood, and drank the unmixed wine of the dark grape-mother, until he was encompassed and heated with the flame of wine.

    Alcestis 2007

  • In both hands he took a cup of ivy-wood, and drank the unmixed wine of the dark grape-mother, until he was encompassed and heated with the flame of wine.

    Alcestis 2007

  • We, as we trod the infinite fruit of Iacchus, mingled and wound in the rhythm of the revel, and now the fathomless flood flowed down, and like boats our cups of ivy-wood swam on the sweet surges; dipping wherewith, we drank just as it lay at our hand, nor missed the warm water-nymphs overmuch.

    Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902

  • So I went up to him with an ivy-wood bowl of black wine in my hands:

    The Odyssey 1900

  • The swineherd then mixed wine in a bowl of ivy-wood, and taking a seat opposite

    The Odyssey 1900

  • He mixed wine also in bowls of ivy-wood, and took his seat facing

    The Odyssey 1900

  • Finding that I would not taste the alcoholic liquor, which the natives always mixed with a large proportion of water, Doto rose, went out, and returned with a great bowl of ivy-wood, curiously carved, and full of milk.

    In the Wrong Paradise Andrew Lang 1878

  • A deep bowl of ivy-wood, too, I will give thee, rubbed with sweet bees'-wax, a twy-eared bowl newly wrought, smacking still of the knife of the graver.

    Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878

  • The swineherd then mixed wine in a bowl of ivy-wood, and taking a seat opposite Ulysses told him to begin.

    The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868

  • So I went up to him with an ivy-wood bowl of black wine in my hands:

    The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868

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