Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as anemone, 1.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See anemone.

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  • noun Archaic form of anemone.

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Examples

  • And thus is Olwen described: 'More yellow was her hair than the flower of the broom, and her skin was whiter than the foam of the wave, and fairer were her hands and her fingers than the blossoms of the wood-anemony amidst the spray of the meadow fountains.'

    Celtic Literature Matthew Arnold 1855

  • She bathes him with her tears, and those precious tears have such a virtue, that Adonis appears all of a sudden transformed into an anemony or wind-flower.

    A Treatise on the Art of Dancing Giovanni-Andrea Gallini 1766

  • Their gills, too, and crefts tefemble an anemony: and they have white fpots, not wtrf large, on the extremity of their bill and tail.

    The Description of Greece 1794

  • a beech-wood that had just put on its first green, where the woodroof [*] at their feet sent forth its fragrance, and the pale-red anemony looked so pretty among the verdure.

    Andersen's Fairy Tales 1840

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