Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several grasses of the genus Phleum, especially P. pratense, native to Eurasia, and P. alpinum, of North America, having a dense cylindrical inflorescence of compressed, one-flowered spikelets and widely cultivated for hay.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as timothy-grass.
Wiktionary
- n. botany Any of about 15 species of annual and perennial grasses, of the genus Phleum, native to Europe, Asia and North Africa, with one species (P. alpinum) also in North and South America, widely cultivated as a fodder plant.
GNU Webster's 1913
- (Bot.) A kind of grass (Phleum pratense) with long cylindrical spikes; -- called also
herd's grass , in England,cat's-tail grass , andmeadow cat's-tail grass . It is much prized for fodder. SeeIllustration in Appendix. - (Bible) A disciple and companion of St. Paul. He was the son of a Greek and a Jewess, and his home was either at Derbe, or Lystra in Lycaonia. Paul set him apart as a minister of the new gospel, and after preaching in Macedonia and Achaia, he went, at Paul's request to Ephesus, and accompanied the apostle to Jerusalem. It was to him that the two epistles to
Timothy were addressed by the apostle Paul. According to tradition,Timothy suffered martyrdom under Domitian.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a grass grown for hay
- n. grass with long cylindrical spikes grown in northern United States and Europe for hay
- n. a disciple of Saint Paul who became the leader of the Christian community at Ephesus
Etymologies
- Named after Timothy Hanson, who carried the seed from New England to Maryland about 1720. (Wiktionary)
- Probably after Timothy Hanson, an 18th-century American farmer. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“NONE OF US are living in the time or paul or first "timothy", pal.”
“Coarse grasses, such as timothy, should not be used on a lawn.”
“We observe about us a grass resembling wheat, except that the grain is like rye, also some similar to both rye and barley, and a kind of timothy, the seed of which branches from the main stock, and is more like a flaxseed than a timothy.”
“The city of Rifle got involved because it had the land in order to grow the test plot of switchgrass and other perennial bioenergy crops such as timothy, alfalfa and prickly pear cactus.”
“They planted nutritious English grass such as timothy-grass, which provided more feed for livestock, and potatoes, which provided a high production rate that was an advantage for small farms.”
“Our only warning system is a satellite called the timothy on Thursday March 26, @07: 37PM from the like-laser-pointers-to-cats Iddo Genuth writes "Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and San Diego State University have observed an explosion of a star 50 times larger than the sun.”
“Write to Timothy W. Martin at timothy.martin@wsj.com”
The Wall Street Journal: Number of Blacks, Hispanics Increases in South
“It darkens the efforts and sacrifices of others. timothy. gibbons@jacksonville.com,”
“Try this on some of the most verbal, right-wing talking heads and see what happens. timothy oleary”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘timothy’.
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•Open List: Songboys
Inspired by gangerh's extremely addictive list songbirds, this is the same type list, but for male names. Same rules apply:
Names of boys in song titles. Not in the lyrics, just in the title...jack, jesse, jakey, john, arthur, nick, donald, bill, billy, gideon, riley, charlie and 95 more...
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Scrabble Names
Given names that were acceptable for play the last time I checked the OWL.
kris, ray, barb, morris, kat, mark, maria, erica, marge, mason, hunter, hazel and 168 more...
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Grasses
Grasses, and words about grasses.
Prairie grasses names are found in this list.
Names of medical marijuana strains can be found elsewhere.cheatgrass, downy brome, chess, brome, bronco-grass, graminoid, grassland, phytolith, steppe, tallgrass prairie, sword grass, panicle and 323 more...
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Truly Awful "Music"
"Popular" songs etc that grate on the ear.
ob la di ob la da, e viva espagna, una paloma blanca, chicken dance, the wheels on the..., me and you and a ..., lady of spain, girl from ipanema, the farmer in the..., we built this city, timothy, shaddup you face and 15 more...
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Patty4jc's Words
family names
amy, brooke, brittany, billy, brandon, william, harvey, patricia, ann, regina, lee, corey and 94 more...
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Flora
fenugreek, verbena, saxifrage, arbutus, calendula, nasturtium, lobelia, hellebore, rhododendron, philodendron, bellflower, heuchera and 449 more...
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whitmanian
from the poetry and prose of walt whitman
celebrate, assume, loafe, grass, summer, distillation, atmosphere, undisguised, naked, mad, breath, loveroot and 291 more...
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Bible names
noah, almighty, cain, abel, father, mother, israel, king, sanctuary, spirit, psalm, blessing and 236 more...
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William Steig
Linguistic exuberance from the childrens' books of William Steig
palsy-walsy, squoze, goosewit, oodles, as real as peas a..., clabber cheese, feeling his onions, lard, noggin, bantling, alackaday, flabbergasted and 55 more...
Tweets
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yarb Mr. Duncan walked aimlessly about while Mrs. Duncan set out the picnic food on the rock - alfalfa sandwiches, pickled oats, sassafras salad, timothy compote.
- William Steig, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble Oct 5, 2008
reesetee Eeeeew! Jan 20, 2008
skipvia This is probably the only song about cannibalism that is not in the death metal genre... Jan 20, 2008
sonofgroucho Now I see what you mean! Jan 20, 2008
treeseed Lyrics to Timothy by Rupert Holmes
Trapped in a mine that had caved in
And everyone knows the only ones left
Were Joe and me and Tim
When they broke through to pull us free
The only ones left to tell the tale
Were Joe and me
Timothy, Timothy, where on earth did you go?
Timothy, Timothy, God why don't I know?
Hungry as hell no food to eat
And Joe said that he would sell his soul
For just a piece of meat
Water enough to drink for two
And Joe said to me, "I'll have a swig
And then there's some for you."
Timothy, Timothy, Joe was looking at you
Timothy, Timothy, God what did we do?
I must have blacked out just around then
'Cause the very next thing that I could see
Was the light of the day again
My stomach was full as it could be
And nobody ever got around
To finding Timothy
Timothy... Jan 20, 2008
sonofgroucho How does this one go? Jan 20, 2008