Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The winged elm or wahoo.
- n. Occasionally, and improperly, applied to the witch-hazel.
- n. An elm. Ulmus montana, of hilly districts in western and northern Europe and northern Asia; the common wild elm of Scotland, Ireland, and the northern and western parts of England. It is less tall than the common English elm (U. campestris), but is a considerable tree, of picturesque habit, the trunk branching naturally near the base, the leaves broadly ovate. The wood has the fine-grained, tough, and elastic quality of U. campestris, and is preferred for bent work, as in boat-building. In southeastern England a variety of the common elm is also called by this name.
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative form of wych-elm.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) See wych-elm.
WordNet 3.0
- n. Eurasian elm often planted as a shade tree
Examples
“I shall be obliged to any of your correspondents who can inform me from whence came the term _witch-elm_, a name given to a species of elm tree, to distinguish it from the common elm.”
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 377, June 27, 1829
“Perigal tea beneath the shade of a witch-elm on the lawn.”
“From out a screen of hazel and witch-elm (almost directly in front of the place where the truck, that morning, had been loaded) crashed a right hideous object.”
“Mounting on an old dwarf witch-elm about seven feet high, where several could sit, he would hold forth.”
“On the witch-elm that shades Saint Fillan's spring,”
“But I have tied red thread round the bairns's throats, "(so her fondness still called them,)" and given ilka ane of them a riding-wand of rowan-tree, forby sewing up a slip of witch-elm into their doublets; and I wish to know of your reverence if there be ony thing mair that a lone woman can do in the matter of ghosts and fairies?”
“On the witch-elm that shades Saint Fillan's spring”
“But I have tied red thread round the bairns’s throats,” (so her fondness still called them,) “and given ilka ane of them a riding-wand of rowan-tree, forby sewing up a slip of witch-elm into their doublets; and I wish to know of your reverence if there be ony thing mair that a lone woman can do in the matter of ghosts and fairies? —”
“I have taught her to draw, -- an accomplishment in which I am not without skill, -- and she has already taken a sketch from nature, which, barring the perspective, is not so amiss; indeed, she has caught the notion of "idealizing" (which promises future originality) from her own natural instincts, and given to the old witch-elm, that hangs over the stream, just the bough that it wanted to dip into the water and soften off the hard lines.”
“I have tied red thread round the bairns 'throats, and given ilk ane of them a riding-wand of rowan-tree, forbye sewing up a slip of witch-elm into their doublets; and I wish to know of your reverence if there be onything mair that a lone woman can do in the matter of ghosts and fairies?”
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