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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of numerous grasslike plants of the family Cyperaceae, having solid stems, leaves in three vertical rows, and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers, with each flower subtended by a scalelike bract.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A plant of the genus Carex, an extensive genus of grass-like cyperaceous plants. The name is thence extended, especially in the plural, to the order Cyperaceæ, the sedge family. In popular use it is loosely comprehensive of numerous flaglike, rush-like, or grassy plants growing in wet places. See Carex and Cyperaceæ.
  2. n. A flock of herons or bitterns, sometimes of cranes.
  3. n. Synonyms Covey, etc. See flock.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any plant of the genus Carex, the true sedges, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species.
  2. n. Any plant of the family Cyperaceae.
  3. n. Obsolete spelling of siege.
  4. n. alternative spelling of segge.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Carex, perennial, endogenous, innutritious herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species.
  2. n. (Zoöl.) A flock of herons.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers

Etymologies

  1. Variant spellings. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English segge, from Old English secg; see sek- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • bilby
    I wander by the edge
    Of this desolate lake
    Where wind cries in the sedge
    Until the axle break
    That keeps the stars in their round
    And hands hurl in the deep
    The banners of East and West
    And the girdle of light is unbound,
    Your breast will not lie by the breast
    Of your beloved in sleep.

    - W.B. Yeats, 'Aedh hears the Cry of the Sedge '. Sep 18, 2009

  • wytukaze Also a (technically incorrect) term of venery for bitterns and cranes; the correct term would be ‘a siege of…’.

    “Here she dwelt with a retinue of aged servants, fantastic women and men half imbecile, who salaamed before her with eastern humility and yet addressed her in such terms as gossips use. Had she given them life they could not have obeyed with more reverence. Quaint things the women wrought for her—pomanders and cushions of thistledown; and the men were never happier than when they could tell her of the first thrush’s egg in the thorn-bush or the sedge of bitterns that haunted the marsh. She was their goddess and their daughter.�?
    — R. Murray Gilchrist, A Night on the Moor and Other Tales of Dread Nov 12, 2008

  • yarb Citation on cleg. Jun 29, 2008

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